James Patterson: See How They Run (USA 1997)

From the Publisher:
Outside New York City, the palatial home of Dr. David Strauss's parents is attacked by gunmen during a glittering party. As he watches helplessly, his wife is murdered. In Los Angeles, Strauss's brother is killed during the Academy Award ceremonies. In Manhattan, his past sweetheart, Alix Rothchild, is running for her life. Dr. David Strauss is soon obsessed with finding the explosive secret behind the murders of his family members. His dangerous odyssey takes him across Europe, and finally to the Olympics, where one of the most shattering surprises in suspense fiction will take place.

James Patterson: See How They Run. Warner Books, ISBN: 0446603929 (May, 1997), 320 p., $7.99.

James Patterson: The Jericho Commandment (USA 1979)

From the Publisher:
The Jericho Commandment is one of the most shocking novels of revenge you will ever read.
At its core is a terrifying secret born in the extermination camps of Nazi Germany.

- A terror group so poisoned by its unslacked need for revenge that justice is bent to the fire of madness.
- An eighty-year-old Jewish matriarch and millionairess whose defection from The Cause leads to murders that panic America.
- Her grandson David, bludgeoned almost into insanity by the trauma of his family's annihilation, desperately following the thirty-five-year-old spoor of phantom Nazis.
- Alix Rothschild (Rothman), survivor of Dachau, America's leading fashion model and actress, somehow a part of the deadly scheme, all the while being haunted by vagrant images of the death camps.
- The FBI trying to hunt down the Nazis and discovering a plot of terror more horrible than even they would have been able to fantasize.

The terror commandos deliver their ultimatum at the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, and history and fiction meld to raise passions and questions rarely so powerfully evoked; chief among them are the power of hate to pervert justice and the ability of love to heal pain.

James Patterson's first novel, The Thomas Berryman Number, was awarded the Edgar for the best first mystery novel by an American author. John D. MacDonald called it "tough, wry and eloquent." And Richard Condon said, "What a large charge to come upon such a good writer so unexpectedly." The Jericho Commandment is major fiction from a writer of great power.

James Patterson: The Jericho Commandment. One of the most shocking novels of revenge you will ever read. New York: Crown Publ., 1979, ISBN: 0517536269, 256 p., $10.00.