Folgen Sie einem engagierten Detektiv, der sich durch die rauen Straßen von New York City schlägt. Jeder Fall stürzt ihn in das Verborgene der Stadt und konfrontiert ihn mit ihren gefährlichsten Kriminellen. Sein unerschütterlicher Gerechtigkeitssinn und seine unermüdliche Entschlossenheit sind seine größten Waffen im Kampf gegen das Gesetz. Tauchen Sie ein in eine aufregende Welt voller Spannung und Action.
Amerika trauert: Die First Lady ist plötzlich und unerwartet an einem allergischen Schock gestorben. Zur Beerdigungsfeier in der New Yorker St. Patricks Kathedrale reisen die Mächtigen und Wichtigen aus aller Welt an. Während der Messe passiert das Unfassbare: Ein Kommando stürmt die Kirche und nimmt 34 Trauergäste als Geiseln. Ein Fall für Deeskalationsspezialist Mike Bennett. Doch Mike plagen private Probleme, da seine Frau im Sterben liegt. Und die Situation in der Kathedrale droht zu eskalieren …
Ein raffinierter Killer auf einem blutigen Kreuzzug …
In New York wütet ein gnadenloser Serienkiller. Seine Opfer sucht sich der Mann in der Elite der Stadt, die er mit tödlichen Lektionen für ihre angebliche Gier und Selbstgerechtigkeit bestraft. Den Fall übernimmt Detective Mike Bennett, der versucht, sich in das kranke Hirn des Killers hineinzuversetzen. Als er endlich das Muster erkennt, welches den Morden zugrunde liegt, weiß er, dass ihm nur noch Stunden bleiben, um New York vor der größten Katastrophe in der Geschichte der Stadt zu bewahren.
Er mordet nach einem grausamen Plan. Er zieht die Fäden. Er ist die Spinne im Netz. Und er ist noch lange nicht am Ziel Seinen wohlverdienten Urlaub hat sich Detective Michael Bennett anders vorgestellt: Kaum zur Ruhe gekommen, erreicht ihn die Nachricht eines vermeintlichen Bombenanschlags auf die New York Public Library. Die Bombe ist nur eine Attrappe – doch die Erleichterung schlägt in Entsetzen um, als klar wird, dass es sich um eine Warnung handelt: Dies ist der Beginn einer Reihe grausamer Verbrechen, die New York in Angst versetzt. Mithilfe der FBI-Agentin Emily Parker gelingt es Bennett schließlich, das Muster des Killers aufzudecken – und das ungeheure Ausmaß seines Plans.
Detective Michael Bennett hunts a master criminal who is terrorising New York - and targeting his ten children. When a South American crime lord brings the worst lawlessness the city has ever seen, Bennett takes his kids to upstate New York - but the violence follows them and they find themselves in the middle of a nightmare.
Forced into hiding from a mass murderer seeking vengeance, Detective Michael
Bennett must decide whether to stay and protect his family, or hunt down the
man who is hunting them.When Bennett arrested Manuel Perrine, he thought he
had brought an end to the drug cartel boss's reign of terror and would get
justice for the murder of his best friend.
Detective Michael Bennett is coming home to New York.However, Bennett is
thrust straight back into a horrifying case: a witness claims to have seen a
group of well-dressed men holding a sickeningly depraved and murderous
gathering in a condemned building.
In this New York Times bestseller, Detective Michael Bennett must race against time to save New York City from chaos by tracking down the source of two mysterious attacks. New Yorkers aren't easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare them, badly: why? After two inexplicable high-tech attacks, the city that never sleeps is on edge. Detective Michael Bennett, along with his old pal, the FBI's Emily Parker, have to catch the shadowy criminals who claim responsibility-but they're as good at concealing their identities as they are at wreaking havoc. In the wake of a shocking assassination, Bennett begins to suspect that these mysterious events are just the prelude to the biggest threat of all. Soon he's racing against the clock, and against the most destructive enemy he's faced yet, to save his beloved city-before everyone's worst nightmare becomes a reality.
In a stunning thriller from the world's #1 bestselling writer, New York Detective Michael Bennett is caught in the crossfire of a deadly standoff, and he must kill . . . or be killed.Snow blankets the avenues of Manhattan's exclusive Upper West Side. The storm is the perfect cover for a fashionable, highly trained team of lethal assassins as they prowl the streets, hunting their prey. But their first hit is simply target practice. Their next mission may very well turn the Cold War red-hot once again.Stepping directly into the line of fire, the President of the United States is in New York for a summit at the United Nations with his Russian counterpart. Pulled away from his family and pressed into service, Detective Michael Bennett must trace the source of a threat that could rip the country apart and ignite a war that would shock the world. With allegiances constantly in doubt and no one above suspicion, only Bennett can save the president-and the country-before the assassins' deadly kill shot hits its mark.
Only Detective Michael Bennett stands in the way of two lethal cartels fighting for New York City's multi-million-dollar opioid trade. And they know where Bennett, and his family, live. An anonymous tip about a crime in Upper Manhattan proves to be a setup. An officer is taken down--and, despite the attackers' efforts, it's not Michael Bennett. New York's top cop is not the only one at risk. One of Bennett's children sustains a mysterious injury. And a series of murders follows, each with a distinct signature, alerting Bennett to the presence of a professional killer with a flair for disguise. Bennett taps his best investigators and sources, and they fan out across the five boroughs. But the leads they're chasing turn out to be phantoms. The assassin takes advantage of the chaos, enticing an officer into compromising Bennett, then luring another member of Bennett's family into even graver danger. Michael Bennett can't tell what's driving the assassin. But he can tell it's personal, and that it's part of something huge. Through twist after twist, he fights to understand exactly how he fits into the killer's plan, before he becomes the ultimate victim.
After a mugging gone wrong, Detective Michael Bennett becomes public enemy number one when the citizens of New York rally around the dead shooter's family. Amidst the controversy and media chaos, Bennett must wait for his name to be cleared. Though he is suspended from active duty, the Mayor has a secret mission for Bennett with an irresistible incentive. Find the Mayor's missing daughter, and Bennett's beloved son Brian will be released from prison. Desperate to get back to work and free his son, Bennett sets out to solve the mystery of Natalie's disappearance. When Natalie's friends start turning up dead around the city, Bennett soon realises that wherever she is, Natalie is in more danger than he could have ever imagined. As links start emerging to a dangerous underground hacking network, Bennett must go beyond his jurisdiction to bring Natalie home. A proud and loving father, Bennett will do whatever it takes to bring his son back to his family. But has Natalie fallen too deep into the dangerous world of the dark web to ever come back?
As Michael Bennett's wedding day approaches, a killer has a vow of his own to fulfil in the thirteenth thriller featuring the NYPD's finest detective Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his long-time love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces their presence in the city with a string of murders. All of the victims are young women, and each has been killed in a manner as precise as it was gruesome. Tasked with working alongside the FBI, Bennett uncovers multiple cold-case homicides across the country that fit the same distinctive pattern. He promises Mary Catherine that the case won't affect their upcoming wedding, but, as he struggles to connect the killings, Bennett may be walking into a deadly trap.
James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment.
Michael Bennett, be grateful you're alive. Someone attacked the Thanksgiving
Day Parade directly in front of Michael Bennett and his family. The television
news called it 'holiday terror' - Michael Bennett calls it personal. The hunt
is on...
James Patterson's BookShots. Short, fast-paced, high-impact entertainment. A man plunges to his death from the roof of a Manhattan hotel. It looks like a suicide - except the victim has someone else's fingerprints and $10,000 in cash. Enter Detective Michael Bennett.
Alex Cross faces a D. C. bomb threat, the Women's Murder Club investigates a millionaire's death, and Michael Bennett hunts down a Thanksgiving Parade attacker in this collection of detective novels. Detective Cross: An Alex Cross Story: An anonymous caller has promised to set off deadly bombs in Washington, DC. A cruel hoax or the real deal? By the time Alex Cross and his wife Bree uncover the chilling truth, it may already be too late . . . The Medical Examiner: A Women's Murder Club Story (with Maxine Paetro): A woman checks into a hotel room and entertains a man who is not her husband. A shooter blows away the lover and wounds the millionairess, leaving her for dead. Is it the perfect case for the Women's Murder Club -- or just the most twisted? Manhunt: A Michael Bennett Story (with James O. Born): Someone attacked the Thanksgiving Day Parade right in front of Michael Bennett and his family. The news called it "holiday terror" -- Michael Bennett calls it personal. The hunt is on . . .
