"It's so messed up and crazy and wonderful, I love it."īut with so much success, does he still feel the same buzz at seeing his name on a new book? “Yes, totally,” he says. But I think this one really turned out wonderfully well and the notion of having Alex trapped by a mMexican cartel, a hit team from another group and a grizzly bear, that’s really cool. On his new book, also released tomorrow, he says: "You wish that every book is as good as the last one, and all are as good as Along Came A Spider, but you never know. James will also make an appearance at the event at Bethnal Green Town Hall via video link.
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In another first, fans of his most famous Alex Cross series will tomorrow be able to take part in a special interactive event in London, ‘The Judge, The Jury and James Patterson', to mark the release of his latest novel, where they will be the jury at Alex’s trial, and get to decided whether he is freed or sent to jail. In what is probably a first in the world of fiction, the singer will also release an album of songs inspired by the book. So all of a sudden people were interested in the story.”Īmong his over 150 books during his four-decade-long career, James has also written other non-fiction works, including one on John Lennon’s last days - he was living in New York on the day the Beatle was shot, and now lives in Palm Beach, Florida, next to a house John and Yoko owned.īut it is his gripping, pager-turner crime fiction books which have turned James into a worldwide phenomenon, with an estimated fortune of £560million.Įarlier this year he released his second novel co-authored with Bill Clinton, The President’s Daughter, and next year he and country music star Dolly Parton will launch a novel they have written together, Run, Rose, Run, about a young women who goes to Nashville to pursue her music-making dreams. But when the story broke it wasn’t because of the girls, it wasn’t that anyone cared about the girls, it was because Alexander Acosta, who approved a plea deal that let him off, was made Trump’s Secretary of Labor. “Then in 2019 all of a sudden it blew up. I said, ‘What do you mean what’s the big deal, and you kidding? This billionaire assaulted hundreds of young girls, as young as 13, 14, that’s the big deal’. I remember taking the thing to CNN, Fox, NBC, and other networks here, I went there personally, and they said, ‘What’s the big deal?’.
“It was difficult to get publicity for it.
“I put that out two or three years before that story really broke big, which is crazy. I wasn’t going to regret anything because everything we put in the book was accurate. “I’m not one to take credit for stuff, but at the time it was scary because I was getting letters from Epstein’s attorneys every couple of weeks, telling me, ‘it’s wrong, don’t do this, you’re going to regret it’. He says: “I brought attention to that story right from the beginning, when no-one else was interested. James remembers how it was one of the hardest of his books to get any publicity for.
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When the book was published, Epstein, alongside close friend Ghislaine Maxwell, whose trial on sex trafficking charges is due to start next week, was still free and rubbing elbows with some of the world’s richest and most powerful men.
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