An irresistibly fast-moving New York crime thriller from the author of the superbly chilling international No 1 bestsellers Along Came a Spider, Kiss the Girls, Jack and Jill and Cat and Mouse.

With his acclaimed series of worldwide bestsellers, James Patterson has established himself as a thriller writer guaranteed to deliver high-octane entertainment and heart-stopping suspense. In recent months, his work has reached an even bigger audience with the box-office success of the Paramount film of Kiss the Girls, starring Morgan Freeman as his ever-popular hero detective Alex Cross.

In The Midnight Club - a lightning-fast thriller originally published in 1989 - James Patterson introduces another memorable detective, John Stefanovitch, a tough New York cop. Stef is hot on the trail of Alexandre St-Germain, the most powerful member of the Midnight Club, a secret society of ruthless crime czars - until he's levelled by St-Germain's shotgun and left for dead. Now, Stef is back, wheelchair-bound, yet sworn to destroy St-Germain and the Midnight Club. But he's up against odds that are as unknown as they are deadly...