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Contents

About the Book

About the Authors

Also by James Patterson

Title Page

Dedication

PROLOGUE: NO PRISONERS

One

Two

PART ONE: A VANISHING ACT

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

PART TWO: SQUEEZE PLAY

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

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

PART THREE: A TIME FOR TRAUMA

Chapter 45

Chapter 46

Chapter 47

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

PART FOUR: NO EXIT

Chapter 73

Chapter 74

Chapter 75

Chapter 76

Chapter 77

Chapter 78

Chapter 79

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

PART FIVE: IN COUNTRY

Chapter 100

Chapter 101

Chapter 102

Chapter 103

Chapter 104

Chapter 105

Chapter 106

Chapter 107

Chapter 108

Chapter 109

Chapter 110

Chapter 111

Chapter 112

Chapter 113

Chapter 114

Chapter 115

Chapter 116

Chapter 117

Chapter 118

Chapter 119

Chapter 120

Chapter 121

Chapter 122

Chapter 123

Chapter 124

Chapter 125

Chapter 126

Chapter 127

EPILOGUE: THE SHOW MUST GO ON

Chapter 128

Chapter 129

Chapter 130

Chapter 131

Chapter 132

Chapter 133

Chapter 134

Copyright

About the Book

Jack Morgan is having a bad week. His twin brother is up on a murder charge and determined to frame him for the crime, and one of Jack’s clients has just called to report the burnt bodies of four surfers on his beach.

But what seems like a random mugging gone wrong soon reveals something far worse – a killer calling themselves No Prisoners is holding the city to ransom. And there’s more bad news: Hollywood’s golden couple, Thom and Jennifer Harlow, have been kidnapped, along with their adopted children.

It looks like the whole world is about to discover whether Private are really as good as they say they are …

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 best-sellers 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.

MARK SULLIVAN
is the author of nine mystery and suspense novels, including
Outlaw
. He lives in Montana with his wife and sons.

Also by James Patterson
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
)

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

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
)

Unlucky 13 (
with Maxine Paetro, to be published March 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
)

NYPD RED

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
)

NYPD Red (
with Marshall Karp
)

Second Honeymoon (
with Howard Roughan
)

Mistress (
with David Ellis
)

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

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
)

WITCH & WIZARD SERIES

Witch & Wizard (
with Gabrielle Charbonnet
)

The Gift (
with Ned Rust
)

The Fire (
with Jill Dembowski
)

The Kiss (
with Jill Dembowski
)

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
)

I FUNNY

I Funny (
with Chris Grabenstein
)

I Even Funnier (
with Chris Grabenstein
)

TREASURE HUNTERS

Treasure Hunters (
with Chris Grabenstein
)

CONFESSIONS SERIES

Confessions of a Murder Suspect (
with Maxine Paetro
)

Confessions: The Private School Murders (
with Maxine Paetro
)

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 Betty Jane

—M. S.

PROLOGUE
NO PRISONERS
One

IT WAS NEARING
midnight that late-October evening on a dark stretch of beach in Malibu. Five men, lifelong surfers, lost souls, sat around a fire blazing in a portable steel pit set into the sand.

The multimillion-dollar homes up on the fragile cliffs showed no lights save security bulbs. Waves crashed in the blackness beyond the firelight. The wind was picking up, temperature dropping. A storm built offshore.

Facing the fire, four of them with their backs to surfboards stuck in the sand, the men sipped Coronas, passed and sucked on a spliff of Humboldt County’s finest.

“Bomber weed, N.P.,” choked Wilson, who’d done two tours in Iraq and had come home at twenty-six incapable of love and responsibility, good only for getting high, riding big waves, and thinking profound thoughts. “With that hit I most assuredly have achieved total clarity of mind. I can see it all, dog. The whole cosmic thing.”

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