26 of Our Favorite Thriller Books That Were Turned Into Movies

If anyone knows their way around the thriller genre, it's James Patterson. In Along Came a Spider, he introduces his famed psychologist and detective Alex Cross as he faces off against Gary Soneji, a criminal mastermind seeking to pull off the crime of the century. (If you want more of Alex, there are 25 more books featuring the detective.) The high-stakes story was adapted into a 2001 blockbuster starring Morgan Freeman.