Joseph Delaney used to be an English teacher, before becoming the best-selling author of the Spook's series, which has been published in 30 countries and sold over 4.5 million copies worldwide. The first book, The Spook's Apprentice, was adapted into a major motion picture starring Jeff Bridges and Julianne Moore.

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The sixteenth thrilling instalment in the globally bestselling Michael Bennett series. 
 
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How do you catch a killer who leaves no trace? 
 
In New York City, a sniper dubbed 'The Longshot Killer' is taking out impossible targets. 
 
Nothing links the victims - except the brutal circumstances of their deaths. 
 
Detective Michael Bennett quickly develops a profile of the killer. Great with a gun. Probably ex-military. 
 
A profile that his new partner, Rob Trilling, fits to a terrifying degree. 
 
With Trilling taking ever more suspicious absences from duty, Bennett must find out the truth - before the Longshot Killer strikes again. 
 
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PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON 
 
'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.' LEE CHILD 
 
'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.' MICHAEL CONNELLY 
 
'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.' IAN RANKIN 
 
'The master storyteller of our times' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON 
 
'One of the greatest storytellers of all time' PATRICIA CORNWELL 
 
'Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried ... there's no stopping his imagination' NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW 
 
'Patterson is in a class by himself' GUARDIAN

Crosshairs

(Michael Bennett 16)

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Detective Michael Bennett is coming home to New York - and a world of unimaginable evil... 
 
Having brought an end to the vengeance of the ruthless crime lord who forced the Bennett family into hiding, Michael is finally back in New York City. 
 
However, Bennett is thrust straight back into a horrifying case: a witness claims to have seen a group of well-dressed men holding a sickeningly depraved and murderous gathering in a condemned building. 
 
The report reads like the product of an overactive imagination. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, the unbelievable claim becomes all too real…

Burn

(Michael Bennett 7). Unbelievable reports of a murderous cult become terrifyingly real

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You can take Michael Bennett out of New York City, but you can't take the cop out of Michael Bennett. 
 
Detective Michael Bennett is ready for a vacation after a series of crises push him, and his family, to the brink. 
 
He settles on an idyllic small town in the beautiful Maine woods. But just when Bennett thinks he can relax, he gets pulled into a case that has shocked the tight-knit community. Kids are disappearing with no explanation – until several bodies turn up in the woods. 
 
Far from the city streets he knows so well, Bennett is fighting to protect a town, the law, and the family that he loves above all else.

Haunted

(Michael Bennett 10). Michael Bennett is far from home – but close to danger

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One wrong answer means death... 
 
The son of one of New York's wealthiest families is snatched off the street. His parents can't save him, because this kidnapper isn't demanding money. Instead, he quizzes his prisoner on the price others pay for his life of luxury. In this exam, wrong answers are fatal. 
 
Detective Michael Bennett leads the investigation. With ten kids of his own, he can't begin to understand what could lead someone to target anyone's children. As another student disappears, one powerful family after another uses their leverage and connections to turn up the heat on the mayor, the press, anyone who will listen, to stop this killer. Their reach extends all the way to the FBI, who send their top Abduction Specialist, Agent Emily Parker. Bennett's work life - and love life - suddenly get even more complicated. 
 
Before Bennett has a chance to protest the FBI's intrusion on his case, the mastermind changes his routine. His plan leads up to the most deadly demonstration yet - one that could bring cataclysmic devastation to every inch of New York.

Worst Case

(Michael Bennett 3). One wrong answer will cost you your life…

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A man who calls himself 'the Teacher' is devising a meticulous plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, he plans to teach New York a lesson it will never forget. 
 
Intent on exacting revenge and causing mass hysteria, he embarks on the worst killing spree the city has ever seen. The whole New York Police Department is tested to its limits; none more so than Detective Michael Bennett as the Teacher leads him on a terrifying chase that brings danger perilously close to home...

Run For Your Life

(Michael Bennett 2). A ruthless killer. A brilliant plan. One chance to stop him.

After returning from his honeymoon, Detective Michael Bennett is greeted with the shocking news that FBI agent Emily Parker is missing. 
 
Determined to track down his former partner, Bennett follows Emily's investigation into an anarchist group that led her between Los Angeles, New York and Washington, DC. 
 
Lurid rumours begin to surface about Emily's disappearance, but Bennett will never give up hope of finding her. 
 
After everything they've been through together, he owes her that much.

Shattered

(Michael Bennett 14)

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TICK... A KILLER'S COUNTDOWN BEGINS. 
 
A rash of horrifying crimes tears through New York City, throwing it into complete chaos. 
 
TICK... CAN MICHAEL BENNETT CATCH HIM? 
 
The city calls on Detective Michael Bennett, pulling him away from a seaside retreat with his ten adopted children, his grandfather, and their beloved nanny, Mary Catherine. Bennett enlists the help of a former colleague, FBI Agent Emily Parker. But as his affection for Emily grows into something stronger, his relationship with Mary Catherine takes an unexpected turn. 
 
TOCK... BEFORE HIS TIME IS UP? 
 
All too soon, another appalling crime leads Bennett to a shocking discovery that exposes the killer's pattern and the earth-shattering enormity of his plan.

Tick Tock

(Michael Bennett 4). Michael Bennett is running out of time to stop a deadly mastermind

Weeks before NYPD Detective Michael Bennett is to marry his long-time love, Mary Catherine, an assassin announces their presence in the city with a string of murders. 
 
All of the victims are young women, and each has been killed in a manner as precise as it was gruesome. 
 
Tasked with working alongside the FBI, Bennett uncovers multiple cold-case homicides across the country that fit the same distinctive pattern. 
 
He promises Mary Catherine that the case won't affect their upcoming wedding, but, as he struggles to connect the killings, Bennett may be walking into a deadly trap.

The Russian

(Michael Bennett 13). The latest gripping Michael Bennett thriller

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The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. Can one father help the other? 
 
Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett an exceptional investigator who might be willing to take on a case that needs to be kept under the radar. The two men strike the deal. 
 
Sources lead Bennett to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking operation - and also to the mayor's missing daughter. But this murder is part of a serial killing spree, one with national security implications. And suddenly Bennett is at the centre of a dangerous triangle anchored by NYPD, FBI and an international crime organization. 
 
Michael Bennett has always been an honourable man, but sometimes honour has to take a back seat. Survival comes first.

Blindside

(Michael Bennett 12). A missing daughter. A captive son. A secret deal.

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What happens when the justice system comes under assault? 
 
Detective Michael Bennett arrests infamous South American crime lord Manuel Perrine in a deadly chase that leaves Bennett’s lifelong friend Hughie McDonough dead. From jail, the prisoner vows to rain terror down upon New York City - and to get revenge on Michael Bennett. 
 
Perrine's men create chaos: police officers are shot, judges murdered. As Bennett is engulfed in the struggle against this widening organised violence, he realises that not only is he being targeted, but that the lives of everyone he loves are under threat.

I, Michael Bennett

(Michael Bennett 5). New York’s top detective becomes a crime lord’s top target

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