US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders CIA agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided.

Brendan DuBois About the Author He lives in Florida with his family. Brendan DuBois is the award-winning author of twenty-two novels and more than one hundred seventy short stories, garnering him three Shamus Awards from the Private Eye Writers of America. He is also a Jeopardy! game show champion.

James Patterson is one of the world's bestselling and most prolific authors. Although best known for his Mystery, Thriller & Suspense titles, he's authored works in many genres, from Non-Fiction to Young Adult, Historical Fiction, and Romance.

Despite having dreams of being a writer, the idea “always seemed presumptuous,” Patterson says. But after reading books by James Joyce, “it really turned me on to reading, and then I started scribbling,” he says.

Growing up, Patterson's friends assumed he'd become a doctor or lawyer, but his real passion lay in basketball. As he got older, however, the author became an avid reader which inspired him to write his own stories.

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“Along Came a Spider” is the most popular James Patterson novel on Goodreads, with over 400,000 ratings. The first mystery novel in the “Alex Cross” series, it has 28 novels (and counting).

He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Jane Effing Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Princess Diana, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses.

James Patterson is one of the world's bestselling and most prolific authors. Although best known for his Mystery, Thriller & Suspense titles, he's authored works in many genres, from Non-Fiction to Young Adult, Historical Fiction, and Romance.

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