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The 5th Horseman: Women's Murder Club (Book 5)

Overview

[Women's Murder Club Series #5] A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did this happen

APOCALYPSE NEARS.

This is not the first such case at the hospital. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a devastating turn for the worse.

Accompanied by the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, Yuki Castellano, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer probes deeper into the incidents. Could these cases just be appalling coincidences Or is a maniac playing God with people's lives When someone close to the Women's Murder Club begins to exhibit the same frightening symptoms, Lindsay fears no one is safe.

Author Information

James Patterson

In January, 2010, The New York Times Magazine featured James Patterson on its cover and hailed him as having "transformed book publishing." Time magazine named him "The Man Who Can't Miss," and he is a two-time Children's Choice Book Award "Author of the Year" nominee, a designation decided on by more than 15,000 children and teen readers.

In the past three years, James Patterson has sold more books than any other author (according to Bookscan), and in total, James's books have sold an estimated 205 million copies worldwide. Since 2006, one out of every seventeen hardcover fiction books sold was a Patterson title. He is the first author to have #1 new titles simultaneously on The New York Times adult and children's bestsellers lists and is the only author to have five new hardcover novels debut at #1 on the list in one year -- a record-breaking feat he's accomplished every year since 2005. To date, James Patterson has had nineteen consecutive #1 New York Times bestselling novels, and holds the New York Times record for most Hardcover Fiction bestselling titles by a single author (63 total), which is also a Guinness World Record.

Maxine Paetro

Maxine Paetro, cowriter of Dreamlovers, writes both novels and nonfiction. Dreamlovers is her first collaboration.

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Product Details

  • Published by

    Little, Brown and Company

  • Publish Date

    February 13, 2006 

  • Print ISBN

    0316159778

  • eBook ISBN

    9780759567375

  • Imprint

    Little, Brown and Company

  • Filesize

    1.27 MB

  • Number of Print Pages*

    400

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Excerpt from The 5th Horseman by James Patterson

RAIN WAS DRUMMING HARD against the windows when the midnight-to-8:00 rounds began at San Francisco Municipal Hospital. Inside the ICU, thirty-year-old Jessie Falk was asleep in her hospital bed, floating on a Percocet lake of cool light.

Jessie was having the most beautiful dream she ' d had in years.

She and the light of her life, three-year-old Claudia, were in Grandma ' s backyard swimming pool. Claudie was in her birthday suit and bright-pink water wings, slapping the water, sunlight glinting off her blond curls.

' Simon says, kiss like a butterfly, Claudie. '

' Like this, Mommy '

Then the mother and daughter were shouting and laughing, twirling and falling down, singing out ' wheeeeeee, ' when without warning a sharp pain pierced Jessie ' s chest.

She awoke with a scream ' bolted upright ' and clapped both of her hands to her breast.

What was happening What was that pain

Then Jessie realized that she was in a hospital ' and that she was feeling sick again. She remembered coming here, the ambulance ride, a doctor telling her that she was going to be fine, not to worry.

Falling, nearly fainting back to the mattress, Jessie fumbled for the call button at her side. Then the device slipped from her grasp and fell. It banged against the side of the bed with a muted clang.

Oh, God, I can ' t breathe. What ' s happening I can ' t get my breath. It ' s horrible. I ' m not fine.

Tossing her head from side to side, Jessie swept the darkened hospital room with her eyes. Then she seized on a figure at the far edge of her vision.

She knew the face.

' Oh, th-thank God, ' she gasped. ' Help me, please. It ' s my heart. '

She stretched out her hands, clutched feebly at the air, but the figure stayed in the shadows.

' Please, ' Jessie pleaded.

The figure wouldn ' t come forward, wouldn ' t help. What was going on This was a hospital. The person in the shadows worked here.

Tiny black specks gathered in front of Jessie ' s eyes as a crushing pain squeezed the air from her chest. Suddenly her vision tunneled to a pinprick of white light.

' Please help me. I think I ' m ' '

' Yes, ' said the figure in the shadows, ' you are dying, Jessie. It ' s beautiful to watch you cross over. '