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Kyle Craig is a fictional character and antagonist in James Patterson's series of novels featuring Washington, D.C. detective Alex Cross. Craig, a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation, is initially a close friend of Cross and assists the detective in his high-profile investigations, and also occasionally asks Cross for help with his own cases. However, in the 2001 novel ''Violets Are Blue'', Craig is revealed to be a criminal who calls himself "The Mastermind", having organized a series of brutal bank robberies and murders. He is eventually brought to justice by Cross. From ''Violets Are Blue'' onwards, Craig is one of Cross' most formidable adversaries. In the film adaptations of Patterson's novels ''Kiss the Girls'' and ''Along Came a Spider'', Craig is played by Jay O. Sanders. ==Background and History== Craig was born to a general, who abused him at a young age and later on. His elder brother once said that he became such a mean kid that they kicked him out of the house to live in the garage a couple of times. Later on in his life, it was said that he killed one of his two brothers while hunting. His second brother knew about it and even punched Kyle at their brother's funeral. When the time came, Craig moved away from family and didn't see his mother, father, or surviving brother again. His father was revealed to have died sometime during the series. He graduated from Duke University and Duke's Law School, as indicated in ''Double Cross'' and became a rising star in the FBI. It is revealed that while at Duke University, he had met two killers Casanova and The Gentleman Caller, who later become the villains in ''Kiss the Girls'', and started killing along with them before heading off on his own. Some time during his life, his met his unknown wife and married her and had a couple of kids. While in the FBI, Craig started looking across the United States for other known killers, two of whom were the Audience Killer and the Wolf, two villains who later appear in other novels as villains to Alex Cross. It is also believed that he had also met another killer named Mr. Smith, who would also face off against Cross in ''Cat & Mouse''. During the events of ''Kiss the Girls'', Craig killed a reporter named Beth Lieberman, marking his first ''seen'' kill in the novels, although it's really not his first. Kyle first appears as an FBI agent in ''Along Came A Spider'' continuing to ''Violets Are Blue'' He becomes a friend of Alex Cross, the series protagonist, helping him out on his cases to capture killers, even using his FBI connections to give him resources. By the novel ''Roses Are Red'', a new serial killer called the ''Mastermind'' is causing trouble with a series of bank robberies and murders, one of which involves the killer murdering Alex's girlfriend and partner, FBI agent Betsey Cavalierre. By the end of the novel, it is revealed that Kyle Craig himself is the serial killer, but no one knows the truth. In ''Violets Are Blue'', Craig, as the Mastermind, continues to taunt Alex and later reveals himself at the end of the novel. When he tries to kill Alex, he is defeated and arrested by Alex himself. During his interrogation, Craig reveals that he killed multiple times before during the book series and that he killed Betsy because she was onto him and that her love for Alex was growing stronger and coming between him and Alex. After his trial, Craig is sent to prison. From books ''Four Blind Mice'' to ''Double Cross'', Craig is held at the supermax prison, ADX Florence. He is visited by Cross only when he has available information on certain cases. Four years later, in ''Double Cross'', Kyle escapes prison with the help of his lawyer and travels across the Eastern United States and to Paris, enjoying his newfound freedom. He kills multiple people during the novel, one of whom is his mother. He also uses his mother's bank account to wire money into an overseas account in order to support himself and assist in remaining hidden. After facing off against Alex, with the help of the Audience Killer, Craig once again escapes and goes into hiding, planning his revenge against Cross. In both novels ''Cross Country'' and ''I, Alex Cross'', Craig calls towards the end of the books and leaves a threatening message and his plan for revenge against Alex. In ''Cross Fire'', Craig returns and has plastic surgery to change his face in order to get close to Cross. While pretending to be another FBI agent named Max Siegel, he takes on cases that Alex is working and starts to gain his trust in a case against two killers. After solving the case and attending Alex's wedding, Craig reveals himself to Alex on his honeymoon and they fight. Alex wounds and is about to capture him when Craig, unable to escape and not wanting to go back to prison, kills himself by shooting a gas tank, which explodes, killing him and burning his body. He appears as the villain in more books than any other in the Alex Cross series. In the earlier books, it was mentioned that Kyle was married with a couple of children, but his wife and children are never mentioned or seen in the later books, but it is presumed that they have cut Kyle out of their lives, due to the fact that he is a killer. The only books he hasn't appeared in was ''London Bridges'', ''Mary Mary'', ''Cross'', ''Alex Cross's Trial'', and all of the other novels after his death in ''Cross Fire''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Kyle Craig」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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