'No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades. The Alex Cross series proves it.'
- Lee Child
'Alex Cross is a legend.'
- Harlan Coben
'It's no mystery why James Patterson is the world's most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: Nobody does it better.'
- Jeffery Deaver
'Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It's what fires off the movie projector in the reader's mind.'
- Michael Connelly
'James Patterson is The Boss. End of.'
- Ian Rankin
'I wrote, "Along Came a Spider is the best thriller I've come across in many a year. It deserves to be this season's no. 1 bestseller and should instantly make James Patterson a household name." A household name, indeed.'
- Nelson Demille
'James Patterson is the gold standard by which all others are judged.'
- Steve Berry, bestselling author of the Colton Malone series
'[Alex Cross] has become one of the greatest fictional detectives of all time, a character for the ages.'
- Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
'Patterson knows where our deepest fears are buried... there's no stopping his imagination.'
- New York Times Book Review
'Patterson is in a class by himself.'
- Vanity Fair