NYPD Red

By: James Patterson, Marshall Karp

Narrated by: Edoardo Ballerini, Jay Snyder

It's the start of Hollywood on Hudson, and New York City is swept up in the glamour. Every night, the red carpet rolls out for movie stars arriving at premieres in limos; the most exclusive restaurants close for private parties for wealthy producers and preeminent directors; and thousands of fans gather with the paparazzi, hoping to catch a glimpse of the most famous and beautiful faces in the world. With this many celebrities in town, special task force NYPD Red is on high alert - and they can't afford to make a single mistake.

Then a world-renowned producer fatally collapses at his power breakfast, and top NYPD Red Detective Zach Jordan is the first one on the scene. Zach works with his beautiful new partner, Detective Kylie MacDonald - who also happens to be his ex-girlfriend - to discover who the murderer might be. But this is only the beginning: the most brutal, public, and horrifyingly spectacular crimes they've ever encountered are about to send all of New York into chaos, putting NYPD Red on the ropes.

Zach and Kylie know there's no way of telling what a killer this deranged will do next. With the whole world watching, they have to find a way to stop a psychopath who has scripted his finale down to the last explosive detail. With larger-than-life action, relentless speed, and white-knuckle twists, NYPD Red is the next mega-blockbuster from "The Man Who Can't Miss." (TIME)

©2012 James Patterson and Marshall Karp (P)2012 Hachette Audio

Yeah… Taut As A J-Lo Dress

Too often big-foot writers outsource something to smaller-shoe collaborators and the results read like a camel instead of a horse. Not here. I don't know how much of this is Marshall Karp's doing but the mix WORKS!

Zack Jordan and Kylie MacDonald are tugged and fit together like Jennifer Lopez's red-carpet outfits. The plot in NYPD Red's like a NASCAR engine… purring at warp speed yet quietly and confidently. This will be a new series, right? Got to be.

BTW, don't know the story about the two readers or which is which but it seemed that a substitution was made about 80% of the way in. The replacement carried the ball to score.

Here's what I want in an Audible mystery/thriller…characters, plot-driven AND driving action, and a puzzle that's intelligently solved at the end. Oh, and a buzz of sexual tension's a useful blob of epoxy to hold my attention. NYPD Red's got it all.

MORE! MORE!

I was There.

I enjoyed the audio book. It makes feel like I'm right there in all the scenes

Meh

It's basically a Harliquin romantic novel with the plot to an ok episode of Law and Order thrown over it.

The bomber

Another very good James Patterson book. The story had hundreds of turns thru out each chapter, you were constantly trying to figure out the next move of the killer. In the end justice prevailed as usual. Happy reading.

Excellent

Enjoyed the book, great story line. Like the pairing of the partners. Looking forward to book 2 and 3, which I already purchased.

Another one James Patterson’s good entertaining book

I really enjoyed this audiobook, this was my first ever audio book I’ve ever listened. Very nice experience, what I liked the most it was a James Patterson’s since I’ve been a fan for very long now.
I’m getting going for the NYPD Red 2.

James Patterson is fabulous!

This book was so well written. It was hard to put down, yet so easy to read. Patterson is a favorite of my husband and myself.

As always jame Patterson catches you in the first

Never disappointed with James Patterson. I have a rule that if I am not hooked in the first 1/2 hour I move to something else. With JP I am hooked in the first 2 minutes

Better than some other co-written "Pattersons"

Would you try another book from James Patterson and Marshall Karp and/or Edoardo Ballerini and Jay Snyder ?

Maybe. Patterson's books are slick and I read all the Alex Cross books & loved them up to a point, and then they seemed to lose something - heart? passion? I don't know what. And I found some co-written books - like Private - similarly lacking. The Chameleon was an intriguing villain. Lexi was an interesting co-conspirator, a very strange mixture of alleged brilliance and abysmal stupidity. I liked the rather worn main character male detective; his new partner Kylie, somewhat like Lexi, seems to waffle between apparent brilliance (graduated No. 1) and horrifically bad decisions - let's NOT take the bomb squad or SWAT or any backup to the very likely location of a bomb....(and plan on evacuating an entire apartment house ourselves - oh, no, we'll tell ONE neighbor and ask him to do it!)

What did you like best about this story?

The chameleon's disguises.

Which character – as performed by Edoardo Ballerini and Jay Snyder – was your favorite?

Charles Connor - the man in the engine room - salt of the earth. Captain Cates was the best female character in the book--wish her part was bigger because I found her much more deserving than Kylie. The main character, Detective Zach Jordan, seemed steady and dependable as well as smart. Honorable mention to Spence, Kylie's husband, who also has leaps of intuition. Too bad Kylie & Lexi weren't better characters due to lapses into ditziness.

Could you see NYPD Red being made into a movie or a TV series? Who should the stars be?

Yeah. Glossy enough for a movie. Chameleon: Johnny Depp? Kylie: Jennifer Lawrence. The Detective Zach Jordan: Somehow I keep picturing a young Dennis Farina. Lexi? Lindsay Lohen?

New Series

Enjoyed the new characters. Look forward to next book in the series. Will go online to order this week.