Harney’s sordid past and willingness to bend the rules help grease the wheels to ensure that nothing will keep CPD from catching the accused, once they are identified. This is easier said than done, as this is one conniving individual, happy to stay one pace ahead of the rest. Harney vows not to stand down until the killer is caught and the victims are returned to their families. However, it’s a trap and the house is rigged, which leads to Harney’s partner dying and the kidnapper slipping through his fingers. Following a few key leads, Harney and his partner travel to a rural home, where they hope to find the girls and solve the case with little issue. While not the best of the Patterson’s attributed series, it kept me intrigued until the final page turn, with a cliffhanger of its own.Īfter five teenage girls are abducted in Chicago, all eyes turn to CPD Detective Billy Harney to find them. Full of sarcasm and great narrative flow, Patterson and Ellis provide readers with a great deal of entertainment throughout the reading experience. James Patterson and David Ellis return with another in their Billy Harney series, offering up some great action in a fast-paced police procedural. (I've just discovered I've read #3 before #2 so I'll have to rectify that soon!!) Highly recommended. I thoroughly enjoy Harney's character and am looking forward to more. Fast paced, furious, gritty and filled with tension, this is Patterson at his best.

Would they catch the perpetrators? Or would they once again escape their clutches?Įscape is the 3rd in the Billy Harney series by James Patterson and it was breathtaking. When the lines became blurred between the drug cartel, the kidnapper and a billionaire, Billy knew they'd have their work cut out. The biggest and most dangerous gang in Chicago, the Nations, was run by a man the cops wanted desperately to take down.

Their arrival at the abandoned farm house began a chain of events, including the death of Carla, that kept Billy forging forward, determined to find the kidnapper and cop killer. Carla, Billy's partner, manned the phones and contact with air support. Chicago PD Detective Billy Harney was on the trail of a kidnapper, who as far as they knew, had a victim in the vehicle as they followed him.

Escape to Australia by James Patterson