Escape: One killer. Five victims. Who will be next? (A Black Book Thriller 3)

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He has written many other number one bestsellers including collaborations with President Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, stand-alone thrillers and non-fiction.

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. Bill does standup at the cop bar when he’s needing to unwind and is on the special assignments force handling the tough stuff. ESCAPE meets all the James Patterson tests --- clear, sharp writing; an entertaining plot; and 121 chapters in 400 pages.This was my first James Patterson book with co-author David Ellis —not realizing it was Book 3 of a Billy Harney series.

The biggest and most dangerous gang in Chicago, the Nations, was run by a man the cops wanted desperately to take down. 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. The action is furious, and Patterson and Ellis use the investigation to introduce Billy to readers and give them a thorough tour of the Windy City and its suburbs. Multiple plotlines ran parallel until most of them connected in interesting ways and surprising ways; although there was some convoluted and far from realistic situations happening.Harney’s sordid past and willingness to bend the rules help grease the wheels to ensure that nothing will keep CPD from catching the accused, once they are identified. My other challenge with this one was there was so much going on with the many storylines and characters dropping and out. While there are quite a few stereotypes here, the storyline still has some interesting twists, turns and tumbles. 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.