'As good as a thriller can get. With Kiss the Girls Patterson joins the elite company of Thomas Harris.' San Francisco Chronicle 'A rip-snorting, terrific read.' USA Today 'Ticks like a time bomb - full of threat and terror.' Los Angeles Times 'A non-stop thriller that never lets up' Sidney Sheldon

James Patterson combines his position as one of the fastest-rising stars of modern thriller writing with a career as the chairman of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York. He first reached the top of bestseller lists around the world with Along Came a Spider, which introduced his popular detective hero Alex Cross, who also appears in Kiss the Girls, Jack and Jill, Cat and Mouse and his most recent novel, Pop Goes the Weasel.