MARCH 29, 2021
SIMULTANEOUS RELEASE
The Red Book The Black Book Thrillers, Book 2 By James Patterson and David Ellis Read by Edoardo Ballerini For Detective Billy Harney, getting shot in the head, stalked by a state’s attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is a normal week on the job. The hero of the mega-bestseller The Black Book returns in his toughest case ever.
“Brilliantly twisty…Many readers will agree with Patterson that this is the best book [he’s] written in twenty- ve years.”
—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“Top-drawer crime ction. The authors are tough on the hero, but the hero is tough.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
To Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD’s elite strike force—Special Operations Section (SOS)—getting shot in the head, stalked by a state’s attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking a case. So when a drive-by shooting on the Chicago’s west side turns political, he leads the way to a quick solve. But Harney’s instincts—his father was once chief of detectives and his twin sister, Patti, is also on the force— run deep. As a population hungry for justice threatens to riot, he realizes that the three known victims are hardly the only ones. When Harney starts asking questions about who’s to blame, the easy answers prove to be the wrong ones. On the ip side, the less he seems to know, the longer he can keep his clandestine investigation going … until Harney’s quest to expose the evil that’s rotting the city from the inside out takes him to the one place he vowed never to return: his own troubled past. JAMES PATTERSON is one of the most popular writers of all time, with more than 375 million copies of his books sold worldwide. He holds the record for most New York Times bestsellers and is the author of the two most popular detective series of the past decade, the Alex Cross novels and the Women’s Murder Club. DAVID ELLIS, a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court, is the author of nine novels, including Line of Vision, which won an Edgar Award, and The Hidden Man, nominated for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.
MARKETING Print run: 520,000 #1 New York Times bestselling author Narrator Edoardo Ballerini, winner of the Audie Award for Best Narration, has been named a "Golden Voice" by AudioFile magazine David Ellis is a justice of the Illinois Appellate Court and an Edgar Award–winning author Also available: The Black Book
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Fiction / Thrillers / Crime (FIC031010) Unabridged • Book #e0ol 8½ hours • 7 CDs • 1 MP3 CD ISBN-13: Digital Library 9781549109614 Library CD 9781549109577 , $100.99 MP3 CD 9781549109584 , $44.99 Downloads: Yes DRM Required: No Publishing Background: Little, Brown and Company Book ISBN: 9780316499408
