James Patterson combines his position as a bestselling novelist with a full-time career as the chairman of the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency in New York. His phenomenal international No 1 bestseller ``Along Came a Spider’ introduced his detective hero Alex Cross, who reappeared in `Kiss the Girls’, `Jack and Jill’ and `Cat and Mouse’. He is also the author of the bestselling thrillers `Hide and Seek’ and `Black Market’.
