James Patterson

And the heart pounding but touching lay romantic knee thriller, detective Alex Cross pursues the most complex and Brilliant killer he's ever confronted, a mysterious criminal who calls himself to mastermind. And I seriously crimes that stunned Washington dc, bank robbers have been laying out precise demands when they entered the building and then killing the bank employees and their families if those instructions are not followed to the letter. Detective Alex Cross takes on the case, certain that this is no ordinary bank robber at work, though pathological need for control and Perfection is too great. Crosses in the midst of a personal crisis at home, but the case becomes all consuming when he learns that The Mastermind is plotting one huge, last, perfect crime. With twist and reversals that are only the mind of James Patterson could create.

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Roses Are Red

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Max and the flock have traded in antarctic's Sub-Zero temperatures for sunny Los angeles, where they're taking over the skies with their hair reason air show. But far below, Deadly Assassin watches their every move, waiting for the perfect moment to send them plummeted to earth. Now the battle for survival rages on. Suddenly the flock learns that millions of fish are dying off Hawaii's coast and that someone, or something, as destroying hundreds of ships. When they are confronted with the most frightening ecological catastrophe yet, they have no choice but to go deep into the murky waters. Now know where is safe. The time the flock is in too deep. Well Max and her team come the depths of the ocean, a pile for enemy tracks. He has his own plans for the flock and will stop until they're under his control. Can the flock protect himself from their army and save the world from other destruction?

A Maximum Ride Novel

When millions of fish start dying off the coast of Hawaii and something is destroying hundreds of ships, the government enlists the Flock--a band of genetically modified children who can fly--to help get to the bottom of the disaster before it is too late

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Just when Alex crosses life is calming down, he is drawn back into the game to confront a criminal mastermind like no other. The elaborate murders that have stone Washington DC or the wildest at Alex Cross and his new girlfriend, detective Brianna stone, have ever seen. This Maniac adores an audience, and stages is Killens as spectacles in public settings. Alex is pursuing a genius of a terror who has the whole city on edge as it waits for his next move. And the killer loves the attention, no doubt, he even sets up his own website and live video feeds to Triumph his madness. And in colorado, another criminal mastermind is planning to try and foot return. From his super Maximum Security Prison cell, Kyle Craig has plotted for years to have one chance at an impossible escape. If he has to join forces with DC's audience killer to get back at the main who has put them in that cell Alex Cross all the better.

Alex Cross returns in this high action, stunning murder mystery. Alex Cross and his new girlfriend Detective Brianna Stone are caught up in the terror.

Double Cross

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Alex crosses a legendary is Washington DC stop detective, a man who is devoted life to protect another's. With unwavering strength and courage come across handles the city's most complex and shocking cases. But none of the atrocities he's seen has prepared them for the sight of a homicide detective at his own front door. Alex Cross's family has been abducted, and a mad man name Thierry Mulch is threatening to kill them one by one. Blinded by rage and gripped with fear Cross would do anything to have bree, Nana mama, and his beautiful children back home. But mulch doesn't care about money or mercy. He is obsessed with studying the psychology behind the perfect criminal. As cross races to save his family, he realizes a deeply terrifying truth, Thierry Mulch doesn't want to become the perfect killer he wants to create one. And he's picked detective Alex Cross to be the guinea pig in his ruthless experiment of good versus evil.

Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family--his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children--have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he loves? Widely praised by the greatest crime and thriller writers of our time, Cross My Heart set a jaw-dropping story in motion. Hope to Die propels Alex Cross's greatest challenge to its astonishing finish, proving why Jeffery Deaver says "nobody does it better" than James Patterson.

Hope to Die

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In Broad desert daylight, a mysterious platoon of soldiers evacuates the entire population of Sunrise Valley nevada. Minutes later, a huge bomb detonates 100 ft above the ground and lays waste to homes, cars, and playgrounds, a town annihilated in an instant. Alex crosses on vacation in San Francisco with his girlfriend, Jamila he's, when he gets the call. The Russian super criminal known as the wolf claims responsibility for the blast. The wolf is the deadliest Nemesis cross has ever face, and the fact that he is still at large is a good night for cross in his new bosses at the fbi. Major cities across the globe, include in london, pierce, in New York are threatened with total destruction. The wolf has proven he can do it, the only question is can anyone stop him in time? Surveillance film of the blast reveals the presence of another of Alex crosses most dangerous enemies, the briefless Assassin known as the weasel. The thought of these two dark Geniuses joining forces makes Alex's blood turn cold.

London Bridges

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Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever- and his own deepest fears- in this electrifying thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer. D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park-killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled. Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts him, and once again, threatens everything he holds dear...

Violets Are Blue

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Process always upheld the law, but now he's on the wrong side of it. Followers of his Nemesis Gary Soneji are dead, and Cross is charged with gunning  them down in cold blood. Detective cross knows he acted and self-defense. How will a jury see him, as another policeman gone over the edge? As cross prepares to prove his innocence is former partner John Sampson brings him a gruesome, salacious video tied to the mysterious disappearance of several young girls. Despite crosses suspicion from the department, he can't refuse the case. The illicit investigation leads them to the darkest corners of the internet, where murder is just another form of entertainment. Stay close, cross tells us family as they enter the federal courthouse. The prosecution presence is damaging case, and the national headline scream for conviction. If cross can't convince his children that he didn't pull the trigger with intent to kill, how can he hope to persuade a jury? And how can he focus on his defense when the laws it in a sense or in jeopardy? His professional and personal lives are on the line, but cross will do whatever it takes to stop a dangerous criminal... even if it cost him his freedom.

This time it's Alex Cross on trial. Alex Cross is on the wrong side of the law. Serving a suspension from the force while he awaits trial for murder, Cross has been branded as a trigger-happy cop, another bad apple walking the streets with a gun, an accusation that Cross will do anything to refute. To make himself feel useful again, Cross opens a counseling office in the basement of his home. When his former partner Sampson shows up needing his help, Cross jumps at the chance, even if it may end up costing him what's left of his career. When a string of young, blonde women go missing, the investigation leads Cross and Sampson to the most depraved, darkest corners of the internet. Struggling to prove his own innocence and uncover the truth lurking online, Cross must risk everything to save his most at-risk patient of all...himself.

The People vs. Alex Cross

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Things are getting too close to home, two killers, one operating in America one in europe, believe Alex crosses the only worthy opponent in the delegating a chess plan. And Alex must contend with something he hasn't known since the loss of his wife, he's deeply in love, and this romance will make him, and her all the more vulnerable. Gary Soneji is back. He vows his last act on Earth will be taking the life of Alex cross. But first he wants some fun, and Union Station in Washington and Penn Station in New York are scenes of chaos as Soneji creates a train ride to hell. What time running out, cross must predict his next move, the lives of thousands of innocent commuters hang in the balance. Meanwhile second game of cat and mouse is being played. Thomas Augustine Pierce referred to by the FBI in interpolis St Augustine for his uncanny ability to catch killers, has been chasing his demon, Mr smith, since his fiance was brutally murdered, heart cut out. Panic spreads to Europe when Mr Smith strikes in london, then paris. But when the Soneji case takes a baffling new twists, Pierce must put the Mr Smith case on hold to assist on a special investigation. Will cross, or Pierce figure out in time who is the cat and who is the mouse?

In this New York Times bestseller, two killers-one operating in America, one in Europe-believe Alex Cross is the only worthy opponent in the deadly game each has planned. Gary Soneji, a dying prison escapee, is looking for revenge on Cross, while another insane killer is pursued by Thomas Augustine Pierce-a brilliant and relentless detective who may even be better than Cross. As the bodies pile up, and Cross is nearly murdered in his own home, the game of cat and mouse leads to one final trap. . . The body count is high, the tension the highest, and the two killers on the loose are watching every move their pursuers make. Who is the cat, and who is the mouse? What and where is the final trap? And who survives?

Cat & Mouse

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This is a large print edition
Detective alex cross has never believed in vampires, but when two joggers are found slain in a manner that suggest a macabre ritual, he has to reconsider.  someone believes in vampires enough to have committed a series of bizarre murders that appear to be the work of one. local police are horrified, and even the FBI is baffled. cross takes on the case and plunges into the Netherworld of secret clubs and role players,a world full of posers and players, and someone demented enough to have crossed the line from the dark ritual to real blood. at the same time, a lethal super criminal from crosses past known As the mastermind is stalking him, taunting him, and threatening Everything he holds dear.  cross has never been Closer to defeat, or in greater danger. In a shocking conclusion, Alex cross may survive a deadly confrontation only to discover at last an awful secret of the mastermind.

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Detective Alex Cross must confront his most terrifying nemesis ever- and his own deepest fears- in this electrifying thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer.


D.C. Detective Alex Cross has seen a lot of crime scenes. But even he is appalled by the gruesome murders of two joggers in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park-killings that look more like the work of savage beasts than humans. Local police are horrified and even the FBI is baffled.


Then, as Cross is called in to take on the case, the carnage takes off, leaving a trail of bodies across America and sweeping him to Savannah, Las Vegas, New Orleans, Los Angeles as his nemesis, the merciless criminal known as the Mastermind, stalks him, taunts him, and once again, threatens everything he holds dear...

Georgia

Alex Cross is plunged into a case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents of revenge and ambition, and the men controlling the moves have the best weapons and training the world can offer.

Four Blind Mice

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New Hampshire

Angel says that Fang will be the first to die, and Angel is never wrong. Maximum Ride is used to living desperately on the run from evil forces sabotaging her quest to save the world--but nothing has ever come as close to destroying her as this horrifying prophetic message. Fang is Max's best friend, her soul mate, her partner in the leadership of her flock of winged children. A life without Fang is a life unimaginable. When a newly created winged boy, the magnificent Dylan, is introduced into the flock, their world is upended yet again. Raised in a lab like the others, Dylan exists for only one reason: he was designed to be Max's perfect other half. Thus unfolds a battle of perfection versus passion that terrifies, twists, and turns . . . and meanwhile, the apocalypse is coming. [BB1]thin spaces around em-dash

Fang

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Ohio

An Alex Cross Thriller

James Patterson's #1 bestselling hero Detective Alex Cross hunts down a serial killer who targets entire families--and who will next be coming for the Crosses. 

 

A precise killer, he always moves under the cover of darkness, flawlessly triggering no alarms, leaving no physical evidence.  

 

Cross and Sampson aren't the only ones investigating.  

 

Also in on this most intriguing case is the world's bestselling true-crime author, who sees patterns everyone else misses.

 

The writer, Thomas Tull, calls the Family Man murders the perfect crime story. He believes the killer may never be caught.  

 

Cross knows there is no perfect crime. And he's going to hunt down the Family Man no matter what it takes.  

 

Until the Family Man decides to flip the narrative and bring down Cross and his family. 

Triple Cross

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Iowa

Alex Cross enters the final showdown with the relentless killer who has stalked him and his family for years.​ Dr. Alex Cross and Detective John Sampson venture into the rugged Montana wilderness--where they will be the prey. They're not on the job, but on a personal mission. Until they're attacked by two rival teams of assassins, controlled by the same mastermind who has stalked Alex and his family for years. Darkness falls. The river churns into rapids. Shots ring out through the forest. No backup. No way out. Fear no evil.

Fear No Evil

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Pennsylvania

While grieving her husband's murder, a young Colorado veterinarian meets a troubled FBI agent and begins to uncover the world's most sinister secrets. Frannie O'Neill is a young and talented veterinarian living in Colorado. Plagued by the mysterious murder of her husband, David, a local doctor, Frannie throws herself into her work. It is not long before another bizarre murder occurs and Kit Harrison, a troubled and unconventional FBI agent, arrives on her doorstep. Late one night, near the woods of her animal hospital, Frannie stumbles upon a strange, astonishing phenomenon that will change the course of her life forever: her name is Max. With breathtaking energy, eleven-year-old Max leads Frannie and Kit to uncover one of the most diabolical and inhuman plots of modern science. Bold and compelling, When the Wind Blows is a story of suspense and passion as only James Patterson could tell it.

When the Wind Blows

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Vermont

Discover James Patterson's powerfully moving novel of love, loss, hope, and family. Katie Wilkinson has found her perfect man at last. He's a writer, a house painter, an original thinker-everything she's imagined she wanted in a partner. But one day, without explanation, he disappears from her life, leaving behind only a diary for her to read. This diary is a love letter written by a new mother named Suzanne for her baby son, Nicholas. In it she pours out her heart about how she and the boy's father met, about her hopes for marriage and family, and about the unparalleled joy that having a baby has brought into her life. As Katie reads this touching document, it becomes clear that the lover who has just left her is the husband and father in this young family. She reads on, filled with terror and hope, as she struggles to understand what has happened-and whether her new love has a prayer of surviving. Written with James Patterson's perfect pitch for emotion and suspense, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas captures beautifully the joys of a new family even as it builds to an overwhelmingly moving climax. This is an unforgettable love story, at once heartbreaking and full of hope.

Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas

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Texas

Cross

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The toughest cases are the ones that hit close to home. When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where everyone seems to be on the take, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known. Chasing a ghost he believed was long dead, Cross gets pulled into a case that has local cops scratching their heads and needing his help: a grisly string of socialite murders. Now he's hot on the trail of both a brutal killer, and the truth about his own past--and the answers he finds might be fatal.

Cross Justice

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Washington

Rafe feels like a caged lion at his summer job at the zoo--until a real lion desperately needs his help.

 

Rafe Khatchadorian is days away from sweet, sweet summer freedom until bad grades threaten to land him in . . . SUMMER SCHOOL.

 

It's impossible to fail out of a summer job, right? Wrong. He strikes out at the zoo then grosses out at a billionaire's country club:
 * Digging a pit for the annual clambake
 * Scrubbing chewed bubblegum, sooty fireplaces, and . . . toilets
 * Polishing the chrome on his boss's ATV

Rafe is destined for the Failed Jobs Hall of Fame until an encounter with an endangered lion puts his wildlife knowledge to the test . . . and it's more than his grade on the line this time.

Middle School: It's a Zoo in Here!

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North Carolina

James Patterson's blockbuster Alex Cross series has sold over 100 million copies--and now he's bringing those thrills to a new generation! Alex's son Ali is eager to follow in his father's footsteps as a detective, but when his best friend goes missing, what price will he have to pay to solve the mystery? Ali Cross has always looked up to his father, former detective and FBI agent Alex Cross. While solving some of the nation's most challenging crimes, his father always kept his head and did the right thing. Can Ali have the same strength and resolve? When Ali's best friend Abraham is reported missing, Ali is desperate to find him. At the same time, a string of burglaries targets his neighborhood---and even his own house. With his father on trial for a crime he didn't commit, it's up to Ali to search for clues and find his friend. But being a kid sleuth isn't easy---especially when your father warns you not to get involved!---and Ali soon learns that clues aren't always what they seem. Will his detective work lead to a break in Abraham's case or cause even more trouble for the Cross family?

Ali Cross

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New York

Kill Alex Cross

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TARGET: HEAD OF STATE A leader has fallen, and the procession route from Capitol Hill to the White House is lined with hundreds of thousands of mourners. None feel the loss of a President more keenly than Alex Cross, who has devoted his life to the public good. TARGET: UNITED STATES CABINET A sniper's bullet strikes a target in the heart of DC. Alex Cross's wife, Bree Stone, newly elevated chief of DC detectives, faces an ultimatum: solve the case, or lose the position for which she's worked her entire career. The Secret Service and the FBI deploy as well in the race to find the shooter. Alex is tasked by the new President to take a personal role with the FBI, leading an investigation unprecedented in scale and scope. TARGET: ALEX CROSS Alex has a horrible premonition: is the sniper's strike only the beginning of a larger attack on the nation? It isn't long before his fears explode into life, and the nation plunges into a full-blown Constitutional crisis. His ingenuity, his training, and his capacity for battle are tested beyond limits in the most far-reaching and urgently consequential case of his life. As the rule of law is shattered by chaos, and Alex fights to isolate a suspect, Alex's loyalty may be the biggest danger of all.

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