And while it sounds like a lot for any one person to accomplish — don’t worry, Cross has help in the hands of his partner, John Sampson (Isaiah Mustafa), his “Nana Mama” (Juanita Jennings), and his ...

The first novel in James Patterson’s Alex Cross series came out in 1993, followed by 34 more books in the years since, about a Washington, D.C., police detective with a Ph.D. in forensic psychology.