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James Brendan Patterson (built-in March 22, 1947) is a prolific American thriller writer. Past "prolific", we mean he releases about one novel per month, and in 2016 he's launching a brand of novellas. Patterson'south work is partly known for really brusque chapters, which were designed to proceed the plot moving. Patterson was originally a bottom-known, notwithstanding honour-winning novelist until he decided to shorten the chapters and focus-test his books. Upon making those changes, he all of a sudden hitting fame.

As for Patterson's prolific output, he pulls this off by maintaining a stable of co-writers to aid churn out new installments for some of his franchises. Patterson writes a treatment of 60 to 80 pages containing all the key plot points, then hands information technology off to his co-author to flesh out the details, periodically reviewing and providing feedback. This practice is ofttimes criticized in literary circles, but Patterson points out that collaboration is common in practically all media. It besides doesn't injure that he donates millions of dollars to school libraries and indie bookshops.

    Works

His main serial of novels are:

• Alex Cross - A detective in Washington, D.C.. Three novels have been adapted for the large screen- Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls (where the graphic symbol was played past Morgan Freeman) and Alex Cross (based on Cross where he is played by Tyler Perry).
• Women's Murder Society - A detective, an ME, a DA and crime reporter. They Fight Crime! in San Francisco. Was adjusted as a TV series in 2007, it lasted one flavour.
• Michael Bennett - A widowed detective in New York City. With ten kids. Adopted and multi-racial, naturally.
• Maximum Ride - A teen science-fiction series with human-avian hybrids.
• Witch & Wizard - A teen fantasy series about fugitive magic users.
• Daniel 10 - A teen scientific discipline-fiction serial most a teenage alien bounty hunter.
• ''Middle School'' - Slice of Life part-illustrated novels with surprising depth that besides inspired other books. One is called I Funny and stars crippled comedian Jamie Grimm, and another chosen Middle School: My Blood brother Is A Big Fat Liar written by Rafe'southward sister.

Other Works (incomplete):

• Sail (2008) - a tale of blackness underwear, black deeds and a message in a canteen.
• Swimsuit (2009)
• Filthy Rich (2016) - one of the rare nonfiction books from Patterson, researching the case of depraved billionaire Jeffrey Epstein.
• The President Is Missing (2018) - co-written with Bill Clinton and ane of the few times he is the 2nd writer credited on the cover.

Also played poker with a fictional crime author.

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Works past this writer with their ain pages:

• Alex Cross series
• Daniel Ten serial
• House of Robots
  • House of Robots: Robots Become Wild!
  • House of Robots: Robot Revolution
• I Funny
• Jacky Ha Ha
• Katt vs. Dogg
  • Katt Loves Dogg
• Maximum Ride series
• Middle School
• Public School Superhero
• Unbelievably Wearisome Bart
• Witch & Magician series
• Word of Mouse

Other works by this author provide examples of:

• Blastoff Bitch: 3 of them in My Brother Is A Big Fatty Liar; collectively known as the Princess Patrol.
• Animals Hate Him: In Zoo, the mysterious animal attacks are establish to be a issue of pollution-induced pheromones emitted by human beings which are similar to the attack-pheromones of insects. Thus, this trope applies to everyone on the planet.
• Black Bra and Panties: In Sail, it is stated that a lawyer likes information technology best when his mistress is wearing black underwear.
• Black Widow: Nora Roberts, the main character in Honeymoon. She kills two rich guys a short while after they suggest to her with her two slice signature dish: an omelet laced with ane toxicant, and sparkle water mixed with a second poison.
• Crusading Widower: Michael Bennett.
• Disabled Snarker: Jamie Grimm.
• Expy: In Private: London, the lead character is Daniel Carter, a blonde, blue-eyed ladykiller with a military background and dry wit, even in crisis situations. The bad guy even turns out to exist a lunatic out to destabilize a region of the world who kidnaps a scientist to that end. In short, he's very similar to James Bail every bit a Private Detective, though a lot less sanguine about killing.
• Fake Roulette: In Sail.
• Free-Range Children: In I Funny, then-sixth-grader Jamie Grimm goes to another town by himself for a comedy contest on his own — did we mention he's paraplegic? — and it's strongly unsaid he wheeled himself home in the middle of the night. (Overlaps with Handicapped Badass in that example)
• Happily Adopted:
  • Micheal Bennett's ten children.
  • In My Brother Is A Big Fat Liar Rafe's sister, Georgia.
• Hate Plague: Played with in Zoo, in which a Detest Plague that affects all mammals except humans appears to be triggering an escalating global epidemic of animal attacks. It turns out that, while animals' beliefs is indeed being altered, it's more of a Detest Me Plague: thanks to pollution plus radiations from jail cell phones, humans have begun emitting pheromones which incite other mammals to set on them.
• Loftier-Class Call Girl: In Canvas.
• Imprinting: The bird kids exercise this to the heroine of The Lake Firm.
• Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Each of the Womens Murder Lodge series incorporates its corresponding number into its title (First To Dice, 2d Chance, Third Caste, Fourth of July etc).
• Incongruously Dressed Zombie: In Zoo ii, Jackson's group in Las Vegas is attacked by feral humans, whose clothes clearly peg them every bit casino employees, tourists, and (inevitably) an Elvis Impersonator.
• Irish Priest: Mike Bennett'southward grandfather Seamus (he became a priest after he was widowed).
• No Celebrities Were Harmed: The celebrities taken hostage in Pace on a Crack, particularly the Britney Spears-clone.
• Pheromones: A major plot point in Zoo involves pheromone signals.
• Post-Rape Taunt: In The Jester, i of the antagonists pulls this on the hero, whose married woman was kidnapped while he was participating in the crusades.
• Ridiculously Human Robots: The Hubots in Humans, Bow Down.
• Robotic Spouse: In The Lake Business firm, Dr. Ethan Kane, the head of the hospital where Max and the other children were kept, has a robotic married woman that is "honored" to perform oral sex on him at whatsoever fourth dimension and whatsoever identify and fifty-fifty has a perfectly measured vagina.
• Rule of Cool: His about well-known young adult series — Maximum Ride, Daniel Ten, and Witch & Wizard — accept a trend to run on this at the expense of logic.
• Shown Their Work: In London, Dan Carter narrates that an actress, whose proper noun he can't recall, in the eating house he'due south in is rumoured to be the next Companion on Doctor Who and was "wearing a skirt even shorter than that worn past the electric current one" (Amy Pond).
• Stealth Pun: At no point in Sail is the phrase "Dunne In" used.
• As well Dumb to Alive: Judge and Jury is well-nigh the trial of a mob leader who is a powerful sociopath. The approximate lets him hear the jury'south names during choice. Fifty-fifty after he gets someone to intermission into her alarmed firm, leave the evening paper nether her pillow, and all simply openly threatens her, she does zilch. Past the end of the day, all but one of the jurors is dead. The retrial is locked down like Fort Knox.

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