The Midnight Club_ A Novel - James Patterson [111]
Someone stepped out from behind the staircase of a brown-stone a few doors down from the precinct house. Parker had been lost in his thoughts. He’d been careless.
“Turn around nice and easy,” he heard.
Parker turned slowly, a sense of fate already overtaking him.
What he saw couldn’t have surprised him more.
Stefanovitch was standing there, leaning against a sturdy wooden cane. The walking cane had been carved by hand out in Pennsylvania.
“Your eyes are going to fall out of your head,” Stef said to Parker. “Never seen a white guy up in Harlem before?”
“I’m just surprised at how ugly you are up on all fours.”
“You killed him, didn’t you? The Grave Dancer. That was you at the World Trade Center?” Stef asked. Then he smiled. “I came all the way up here to shake your goddamn hand.”
Isiah Parker did better than that. He embraced John Stefanovitch, clasping his back tightly with both hands.
The two detectives stood there grinning in the shadows and winter cold of the Harlem street.
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JAMES PATTERSON won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award. He is the author of four #1 bestsellers featuring Detective Alex Cross.
JAMES PATTERSON—#1 BESTSELLING AUTHOR
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“Patterson, among the best novelists of crime stories ever, has reached his pinnacle.”
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A string of #1 blockbusters from Along Came a Spider to Cat & Mouse. Now read James Patterson’s THE MIDNIGHT CLUB.
A stunningly brilliant psychopathic killer who has skillfully eluded the police from London to Paris to New York. A beautiful woman journalist suddenly in grave danger. An unorthodox New York detective whose motive for stopping the killer couldn’t be more personal or emotional.
“Patterson joins the elite company of Thomas Harris and John Sanford in concocting riveting and truly unique serial killers, while creating sleuths who are heroic and fascinating.”
—SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
THE MIDNIGHT CLUB is the
novel I wrote just before
Along Came a Spider. I’m
certain that both Alex Cross
and Sampson originated in
ideas I had while writing
this story. It’s one of my
favorites, and I believe it
could make the best movie
of all my novels.
—JAMES PATTERSON
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