Pop Goes the Weasel 9780755349333 Paperback

NOW THE INSPIRATION FOR THE ORIGINAL SERIES ‘CROSS’ ON PRIME VIDEO’Alex Cross is a legend’HARLAN COBEN’It’s no mystery why James Patterson is the world’s most popular thriller writer . . . Simply put: nobody does it better.’JEFFERY DEAVERIn POP GOES THE WEASEL, James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense and psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high.’It’s all just a game, darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. You’re a very lucky girl – I’m the best player of all.’Geoffrey Shafter: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all.Alex Cross: senior Washington, DC homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings that Cross has been forbidden to investigate.Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It’s what fires off the movie projector in the reader’s mind.’MICHAEL CONNELLY’One of the greatest storytellers of all time’PATRICIA CORNWELL’James Patterson is The Boss. End of.’IAN RANKIN