The cast of villains includes a sadistic sexual predator and an evil billionaire who believes his money makes him invulnerable to the criminal justice system.

Bill does standup at the cop bar when he’s needing to unwind and is on the special assignments force handling the tough stuff. He has had to endure the death of his wife, as well as that of his partner, and the imprisonment of his father, also a Chicago police officer. Take it with you on vacation and enjoy it as you wait for his next book, which you know will be right around the corner. While I have had some issues with James Patterson and his writing, he has certain collaborators who coax out some superior writing to which the popular author is attributed.Patterson and Ellis offer up a decent piece of writing here, sure to find a number of readers eager to explore Billy Harney a little more.

This was my first James Patterson book with co-author David Ellis —not realizing it was Book 3 of a Billy Harney series. I am late to the series, but quite a bit has happened to Billy in the first two entries, THE BLACK BOOK and THE RED BOOK. I would read another one of his and hope they improve their storytelling and develop him more in his own unique way. The ending was also set up like there might be a book 4 in the future so will definitely keep an eye out for that. After five teenage girls are abducted in Chicago, all eyes turn to CPD Detective Billy Harney to find them.Escape” starts off with Harney and his partner tailing a potential kidnapper of a teenage girl, and ends in a devastating outcome that surprisingly caught me off guard.

The big kicker is that the mystery was well thought out, had multiple layers, and even more important (for those of us who confidently feel that we can figure out the guilty party before he/she is revealed), the outcome was surprising and extremely well-delivered! I didn't realise it was book 3 in a series and I haven't read the previous books but I don't think that took away from the story. Even when things appear to be clear-cut, there’s a twist and the story reaches a tense climax, with Harney in the middle. Hachette Book Group is a leading book publisher based in New York and a division of Hachette Livre, the third-largest publisher in the world. It looks like the ending of this book sets up another book in the series and I for one will be picking it up.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. Their arrival at the abandoned farm house began a chain of events, including the death of Carla, that kept Billy forging forward, determined to find the kidnapper and cop killer. Hard-working and honest to a fault, he cannot be bought but is willing to circumvent procedures and policies that he believes would prevent justice from being administered. Firm plot lines offer the reader some suspense and leave the book from being too predictable, helping to keep the book mysterious when needed.