Hope to Die

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 – has 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, as Jeffery Deaver says, “nobody does it better” than James Patterson.

About the Author

JAMES PATTERSON
is one of the best-known and biggest-selling writers of all time. He is the author of some of the most popular series of the past decade – the Alex Cross, Women’s Murder Club and Detective Michael Bennett novels – and he has written many other number one bestsellers including romance novels and stand-alone thrillers. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

James is passionate about encouraging children to read. Inspired by his own son who was a reluctant reader, he also writes a range of books specifically for young readers. James is a founding partner of Booktrust’s Children’s Reading Fund in the UK. In 2010, he was voted Author of the Year at the Children’s Choice Book Awards in New York.

Also by James Patterson

THE WOMEN’S MURDER CLUB SERIES

1st to Die • 2nd Chance (
with Andrew Gross
) • 3rd Degree (
with Andrew Gross
) • 4th of July (
with Maxine Paetro
) • The 5th Horseman (
with Maxine Paetro
) • The 6th Target (
with Maxine Paetro
) • 7th Heaven (
with Maxine Paetro
) • 8th Confession (
with Maxine Paetro
) • 9th Judgement (
with Maxine Paetro
) • 10th Anniversary (
with Maxine Paetro
) • 11th Hour (
with Maxine Paetro
) • 12th of Never (
with Maxine Paetro
) • Unlucky 13 (
with Maxine Paetro
) • 14th Deadly Sin (
with Maxine Paetro, to be published February 2015
)

DETECTIVE MICHAEL BENNETT SERIES

Step on a Crack (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • Run for Your Life (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • Worst Case (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • Tick Tock (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • I, Michael Bennett (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • Gone (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • Burn (
with Michael Ledwidge
)

PRIVATE NOVELS

Private (
with Maxine Paetro
) • Private London (
with Mark Pearson
) • Private Games (
with Mark Sullivan
) • Private: No. 1 Suspect (
with Maxine Paetro
) • Private Berlin (
with Mark Sullivan
) • Private Down Under (
with Michael White
) • Private L.A. (
with Mark Sullivan
) • Private India (
with Ashwin Sanghi
) • Private Vegas (
with Maxine Paetro, to be published January 2015
)

NYPD RED SERIES

NYPD Red (
with Marshall Karp
) • NYPD Red 2 (
with Marshall Karp
)

STAND-ALONE THRILLERS

Sail (
with Howard Roughan
) • Swimsuit (
with Maxine Paetro
) • Don’t Blink (
with Howard Roughan
) • Postcard Killers (
with Liza Marklund
) • Toys (
with Neil McMahon
) • Now You See Her (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • Kill Me If You Can (
with Marshall Karp
) • Guilty Wives (
with David Ellis
) • Zoo (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • Second Honeymoon (
with Howard Roughan
) • Mistress (
with David Ellis
) • Invisible (
with David Ellis
)

NON-FICTION

Torn Apart (
with Hal and Cory Friedman
) • The Murder of King Tut (
with Martin Dugard
)

ROMANCE

Sundays at Tiffany’s (
with Gabrielle Charbonnet
) • The Christmas Wedding (
with Richard DiLallo
) • First Love (
with Emily Raymond
)

FAMILY OF PAGE-TURNERS

MIDDLE SCHOOL BOOKS

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life (
with Chris Tebbetts
) • Middle School: Get Me Out of Here! (
with Chris Tebbetts
) • Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat Liar (
with Lisa Papademetriou
) • Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake Hill (
with Chris Tebbetts
) • Middle School: Ultimate Showdown (
with Julia Bergen
) • Middle School: Save Rafe! (
with Chris Tebbetts
)

I FUNNY SERIES

I Funny (
with Chris Grabenstein
) • I Even Funnier (
with Chris Grabenstein
) • I Totally Funniest (
with Chris Grabenstein, to be published January 2015
)

TREASURE HUNTERS SERIES

Treasure Hunters (
with Chris Grabenstein
) • Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the Nile (
with Chris Grabenstein
)

HOUSE OF ROBOTS

House of Robots (
with Chris Grabenstein, to be published December 2014
)

DANIEL X SERIES

The Dangerous Days of Daniel X (
with Michael Ledwidge
) • Watch the Skies (
with Ned Rust
) • Demons and Druids (
with Adam Sadler
) • Game Over (
with Ned Rust
) • Armageddon (
with Chris Grabenstein
)

HOMEROOM DIARIES

Homeroom Diaries (
with Lisa Papademetriou
)

MAXIMUM RIDE SERIES

The Angel Experiment • School’s Out Forever • Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports • The Final Warning • Max • Fang • Angel • Nevermore • Forever (
to be published January 2015
)

CONFESSIONS SERIES

Confessions of a Murder Suspect (
with Maxine Paetro
) • Confessions: The Private School Murders (
with Maxine Paetro
) • Confessions: The Paris Mysteries (
with Maxine Paetro
)

WITCH & WIZARD SERIES

Witch & Wizard (
with Gabrielle Charbonnet
) • The Gift (
with Ned Rust
) • The Fire (
with Jill Dembowski
) • The Kiss (
with Jill Dembowski
) • The Lost (
with Emily Raymond
)

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Daniel X: Alien Hunter (
with Leopoldo Gout
) • Maximum Ride: Manga Vols. 1–8 (
with NaRae Lee
)

For more information about James Patterson’s novels, visit
www.jamespatterson.co.uk

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Why everyone loves James Patterson and Alex Cross

‘It’s no mystery why James Patterson is the world’s most popular thriller writer. Simply put:
nobody does it better
.’

Jeffery Deaver

‘No one gets this big without
amazing natural storytelling
talent – which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.’

Lee Child

‘James Patterson is the
gold standard
by which all others are judged.’

Steve Berry

‘Alex Cross is one of the
best-written heroes
in American fiction.’

Lisa Scottoline

‘Twenty years after the first Alex Cross story, he has become one of the
greatest fictional detectives
of all time, a character for the ages.’

Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child

‘Alex Cross is a
legend
.’

Harlan Coben

‘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.’