Max DiLallo

Max DiLallo is an American writer and one of James Patterson's collaborators, contributing to Patterson's expansive catalog of co-authored commercial fiction, including work connected to the Zoo series, which imagines a near-future ecological collapse triggering coordinated animal attacks on humans worldwide. DiLallo's work with Patterson fits within Patterson's broader collaborative model, in which he partners with a rotating group of co-authors across numerous thriller, science fiction, and adventure series to sustain a high volume of releases. DiLallo has also worked in screenwriting and adapted storytelling formats, experience that lends a visual, fast-cutting quality to the collaborative fiction he has contributed to. His contributions extend the Zoo franchise's blend of eco-thriller premise and disaster-adventure plotting, following the format established in the original novel and its television adaptation. DiLallo continues to work within collaborative commercial fiction, and his output remains closely tied to the Patterson co-authorship system, through which many contemporary thriller writers have found a route to wide readership within established, branded series.