01495cam a2200337 4500 1261897467 TxAuBib 000229s2000||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 00028192 9780316693257 0316693251 (OCoLC)4172 DLC DLC BAKER BTCTA YDXCP XY4 OCLCQ OCLCG SIE OCLCQ EAL O2H HIR TxAuBib Patterson, James. Roses are red : a novel / by James Patterson. 1st ed. Boston : Little, Brown, 2000. 400 p. ; 25 cm. Featuring Alex Cross. A brilliant criminal known only as the Mastermind orchestrates a series of bank robberies that are notable for their very precise demands--and their explosive violence when the demands are not met. Alex Cross takes on the case and as he gets close to identifying a suspect, the Mastermind pulls off the most outrageous kidnapping scheme in U.S. history--and walks away with the largest ransom ever. Cross, Alex (Fictitious character) Fiction. Police Fiction. African American police Fiction. Police psychologists Fiction. Bank robberies Fiction. Kidnapping Fiction. Washington (D.C) Fiction. Mystery fiction. Psychological fiction. Featuring Alex Cross.