The harder the investigators push, the more resistance they find when they leave behind the polite law offices and doctors' quarters of the state capital. Kay had many enemies, but all of them seemed to need her alive. There they find a world of trouble, corruption, and secrets, all of them closed to outsiders like Cross and Mahoney. They travel to Alabama to investigate Kay's early years. While John Sampson of DC Metro Police investigates the last movements of Christopher Randall, the educator killed along with Kay Willingham, detective Alex Cross and FBI special agent Ned Mahoney find unanswered questions from Willingham's past, before she arrived in DC and became known in DC society as someone who could make things happen. So why was she parked in a Bentley convertible idling behind a DC private school, in the middle of the night, with the man who was the head of that school? Who shot them both, point blank, and why? The shocking double homicide is blazed across the internet, TV, newspapers-and across Alex Cross's mind. Kay Willingham led a life as glamorous as it was public-she was a gorgeous Georgetown socialite, philanthropist, and the ex-wife of the vice president. The murder of a glamorous DC socialite becomes Alex Cross’s deadliest case since Along Came a Spider.
Patterson married Sue Solie in 1997 the two had a son, Jack, the following year. Patterson earns millions each year for his work, and his success in brand management even became a case study at Harvard Business School. As of January 2016, he had sold more than 350 million books worldwide.
In 2010, Patterson earned a place in the Guinness World Records as the first author to sell more than 1 million e-books, and his ever-growing number of New York Times best sellers - he'd already accumulated 114 of them according to a May 2015 article in the Times - is another Guinness record. Patterson left Vanderbilt after a year, and then took a job as a copywriter at ad agency J. He attended Manhattan College as an undergraduate before starting coursework for a master's degree in English literature at Vanderbilt University. Patterson was a good student but didn't enjoy reading until after he graduated high school. Patterson was born in Newburgh, New York, on March 22, 1947. Patterson holds the Guinness World Record for having the most books on The New York Times' best-seller list.
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While being a published author, he continued moving up the ranks of the advertising world until 1996, when he decided to leave his life as an executive to focus on writing full time. James Patterson is a prolific author who has written detective stories, thrillers, science fiction, romance and young adult novels. His first book was published in 1976.
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His first successful series featured psychologist Alex Cross. James Patterson is a prolific author of thrillers, mysteries, young adult novels and more.