No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.

Alex Cross is a legend.

It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: Nobody does it better.

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.

James Patterson is The Boss. End of.

I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed.

James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged.

[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages.

Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.

Patterson is in a class by himself.

Vast in scope and heart, Bridge is both a thrilling exploration of the known universe and an intimate portrayal of a daughter's yearning for her mother. Lauren Beukes has crafted a suspenseful, deeply immersive odyssey that will make you consider the alternate possibilities inside us all. A perfect summer read.

Lauren Beukes takes a story filled with psychedelic drugs, parallel worlds, and neuroscience and makes it also about a complex mother-daughter relationship, full of darkness, light, and longing. This is fun and insane and very moving

What if our dreams are twisted-up memories? What if the Mandela Effect isn't an effect at all? Somewhere between The Lathe of Heaven and Everything Everywhere All at Once is Lauren Beukes' Bridge: it's not just reality that's multifold, it's identity. Bridge challenges our sense of reality, chips away at our conception of the self, and shoves us down a slide of our own paranoia. But, it's Lauren Beukes-this is what she does, isn't it?

Thrilling, complex, and pulse-pounding. Beukes handles the balance between action and emotion brilliantly, this is speculative fiction of the highest calibre

Praise for Lauren Beukes

A stand-out chase thriller. How can you not fall in love with this book?

A major, major talent

Very, very good. It feels effortless. Utterly accomplished

A powerful thriller - imaginative, disturbing, tense, compelling reading

Dark, relentless, time-twisting, page-turning ... it shines

Powerful and intelligent

A ripping tale that neither shies away from big questions nor interesting answers