Richard North Patterson's twelve previous novels include seven consecutive international bestsellers. His novels have won an Edgar Allan Poe Award and the Grand Prix de Litterature Policiere. Formerly a trial lawyer in Washington and San Francisco, Mr Patterson also served as an assistant attorney general in Ohio and as the SEC's liaison to the Watergate special prosecutor, and now serves on the boards of several Washington-based advocacy groups dealing with gun violence, political reform, and reproductive rights.
