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James Patterson, author of Blindside: A Detective Michael Bennett Thriller

The mayor of New York has a daughter who's missing and in danger. Detective Michael Bennett has a son who's in prison. The two strike a deal. Bennett and the mayor have always had a tense relationship, but now the mayor sees in Bennett a discreet investigator with family worries of his own. Just one father helping another. The detective leaps into the case, and sources lead him to a homicide in the Bronx. The victim has ties to a sophisticated hacking operation --- and also to the mayor's missing daughter, Natalie, a 21-year-old computer prodigy. The murder is part of a serial killing spree, one with national security implications. And suddenly Bennett is at the center of a dangerous triangle anchored by the NYPD, the FBI and a transnational criminal organization.

Week of January 11, 2021

Paperback releases for the week of January 11th include BLINDSIDE by James Patterson and James O. Born, which revolves around a deal that has been struck between the mayor of New York, whose daughter is missing and in danger, and Detective Michael Bennett, whose son is in prison; THE MOMENT OF LIFT, a timely and necessary call to action for women's empowerment from Melinda Gates, who shares lessons she’s learned from the inspiring people she’s met during her work and travels around the world; TROUBLE IS WHAT I DO, which marks the return of Walter Mosley’s morally ambiguous P.I. Leonid McGill, who continues to investigate crimes against society's most downtrodden; and WHERE REASONS END by Yiyun Li, a novel composed in the months after a mother loses her child to suicide, which trespasses into the space between life and death as they talk, free from old images and narratives.