I needed the audience to invest in Alex Cross and I think one of the most searing ways to do that is to put your hero in jeopardy,” showrunner Ben Watkins tells The Hollywood Reporter of his longterm ...

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.