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Contents

About the Book

About the Authors

Also by James Patterson

Title Page

Dedication

Prologue: Ka-Boom

One

Two

Three

Part One: Save the Last Dance for Me

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Part Two: Look Out. Ol’ Mackie’s Back.

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

Chapter 36

Chapter 37

Chapter 38

Chapter 39

Chapter 40

Chapter 41

Chapter 42

Chapter 43

Chapter 44

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

Part Three: Red Sky in the Morning

Chapter 48

Chapter 49

Chapter 50

Chapter 51

Chapter 52

Chapter 53

Chapter 54

Chapter 55

Chapter 56

Chapter 57

Chapter 58

Chapter 59

Chapter 60

Chapter 61

Chapter 62

Chapter 63

Chapter 64

Chapter 65

Chapter 66

Chapter 67

Chapter 68

Chapter 69

Chapter 70

Chapter 71

Chapter 72

Chapter 73

Chapter 74

Chapter 75

Chapter 76

Chapter 77

Chapter 78

Chapter 79

Part Four: Where’s the Beef?

Chapter 80

Chapter 81

Chapter 82

Chapter 83

Chapter 84

Chapter 85

Chapter 86

Chapter 87

Chapter 88

Chapter 89

Chapter 90

Chapter 91

Chapter 92

Chapter 93

Chapter 94

Chapter 95

Chapter 96

Chapter 97

Chapter 98

Chapter 99

Chapter 100

Chapter 101

Chapter 102

Part Five: High Noon

Chapter 103

Chapter 104

Chapter 105

Chapter 106

Chapter 107

Chapter 108

Chapter 109

Chapter 110

Acknowledgments

Copyright

ABOUT THE BOOK

When two dead bodies are found inside a wrecked car on the Golden Gate Bridge, Detective Lindsay Boxer doubts it will be anything as simple as a traffic accident.

The scene is more gruesome than anything she has seen before. It definitely wasn’t the crash that killed these people.

While Lindsay starts to piece this case together, she gets a call she wasn’t expecting. Sightings
of her ex-colleague-turned-ruthless-killer Mackie Morales have been reported.

Wanted for three murders, Mackie has been in hiding since she escaped from custody. But now she’s ready to return to San Francisco and pay a visit to some old friends …

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

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.

MAXINE PAETRO
is the author of three novels and two works
of non-fiction, and she is the co-author of more than a dozen books with James Patterson. She lives in New York with her husband.

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
)

ALEX CROSS NOVELS

Along Came a Spider • Kiss the Girls • Jack and Jill • Cat and Mouse • Pop Goes the Weasel • Roses are Red • Violets are Blue • Four Blind Mice • The Big Bad Wolf • London Bridges • Mary, Mary • Cross • Double Cross • Cross Country • Alex Cross’s Trial (
with Richard DiLallo
) • I, Alex Cross • Cross Fire • Kill
Alex Cross • Merry Christmas, Alex Cross • Alex Cross, Run • Cross My Heart • Hope to Die (
to be published November 2014
)

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, to be published September 2014
)

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
)

NYPD RED SERIES

NYPD Red (
with Marshall Karp
) • NYPD Red 2 (
with Marshall Karp, to be published June 2014
)

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, to be published July 2014
)

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
MAXIMUM RIDE SERIES

The
Angel Experiment • School’s Out Forever • Saving the World and Other Extreme Sports • The Final Warning • Max • Fang • Angel • Nevermore

CONFESSIONS SERIES

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

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
)

MIDDLE SCHOOL NOVELS

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, to be published May 2014
) • Middle School: Save Rafe! (
with Chris Tebbetts, to be published July 2014
)

I FUNNY SERIES

I Funny (
with Chris Grabenstein
) • I Even Funnier (
with Chris Grabenstein
)

TREASURE HUNTERS

Treasure Hunters (
with Chris Grabenstein
)

GRAPHIC NOVELS

Daniel X: Alien Hunter (
with Leopoldo Gout
) • Maximum Ride: Manga Vol. 1–7 (
with NaRae Lee
)

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

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For Suzie and John, Brendan, Alex, and Jack

PROLOGUE
KA-BOOM
ONE

IT WAS AN
ugly Monday just after noon. There had been no sign of sun so far, just a thick fog that had put the blocks to traffic around the Golden Gate. I was behind the wheel of the squad car, and Inspector Rich Conklin, my partner of many years, was in the seat beside me when Claire called my cell phone.

Claire Washburn is my closest friend, and also San Francisco’s Chief Medical Examiner.
This call was strictly business.

“Lindsay,” Claire shouted over the braying of car horns. “I’ve got two DBs in a single-car smash-up and I don’t know what the hell I’m looking at. If you and Richie are in the neighborhood, I could use another opinion.”

She gave me her location, and I told her we’d be there
as soon as weather and traffic permitted. I repeated to Rich what Claire had said and
turned the car around.

My partner is smart, steady, a glass-full type of guy, and on this particular day, he was pretty happy with himself.

He said, “Claire wants us to look at a traffic fatality?”

“She doubts it’s an accident.”

I followed Lincoln through the Presidio and past the Crissy Field Overlook toward the bridge as Conklin called Brady and told him we were answering Claire’s call.
He phoned Claire and said we were about eight minutes out, then picked up where he left off, asking my advice on his romantic dilemma.

“It’s Tina’s birthday. We’ve been together for two months,” he said. “So what do I get her that means ‘I like you a lot
so far
’?”

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