Product Description

Features a collection of stories.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #21588 in Books
• Published on: 2007-05-18
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

Review
'...these tantalising tales offer a nifty twist' --Time Out

'Ingenious, supremely readable, fun and often electrifying...' --The Guardian

'...if you like your crime capers short and sweet you'll love this collection of thrilling tales' --Ok!

Synopsis
Features a collection of stories.

About the Author
James Patterson is one of the biggest selling novelists in the world today. In his role as editor on Thriller, Patterson writes about the trailblazing nature of this anthology and has included an introduction to each story, describing the writer, their work, and the story.

Customer Reviews

Thriller - Not So Thrilling!!
I am a big fan of James Patterson, but this compilation of short stories which he has reviewed not only couldn't keep me up all night, it struggled to hold my attention during the day!! The idea was a good one and there were one or two reasonable stories, but by and large, this book failed to impress either me or my wife and neither of us managed to finish it. I will go back to reading full length James Patterson novels which are usually excellent and give the short stories a miss in future.

Good compilation even if not written by the master.
Being an avid reader of James Patterson books I snapped this up thinking I would get varied stories written by the master himself. I was then disappointed to find he has only edited it.
Having said that there are a number of great short stories in the book and some that bored me rigid.
Compilations like this help discover writers you may not have previously tried before. Which is why I'm giving it a modest 3 stars.

A bit of a Curate's Egg of a book!
This book contains an anthology of short stories from a wide range of Thriller writers - some of whom I had discovered before, and some of whom were totally new to me. It has taken me a long time to work through (by my standards) - for a variety of reasons. One of these is that the stories varied greatly so greatly in style and you never knew what to expect when you moved from story to story! Most of them were intriguing, some were very enjoyable -enough so for me to want to research the outhors here and consider trying one of their full length books - and one or two left me cold, wondering what they had been all about! I found myself making brief notes in the index so that I could remember how I felt about the stories! (and I never normally write in books!)

Patterson's introductions to the stories were interesting - linking the short stories with the authors' other works and introducing us to their key characters; but it would have been nice to have seen contributions from him and some of his co-writers/ghost-writers in the anthology - whatever I may think of his more recent books!