Michael Bennett · Book 19

Paranoia

by James O. Born and James Patterson

Published
1 January 2025
Pages
378
ISBN-13
9781529136456
Type
novel

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About this book

Paranoia, the seventeenth entry, followed Crosshairs in 2025 -- the most recent installment in a series that has run on an almost-annual schedule since 2007, still centered on Bennett's ten adopted children and his grandfather Seamus. It runs 378 pages.

Its place in Michael Bennett

Paranoia is book 19 in the Michael Bennett series. It follows Crosshairs. It is followed by Delusional. See the full Michael Bennett reading order.

Detective Michael Bennett works major cases for the NYPD while raising ten adopted children alone in a cramped Manhattan apartment, with his grandfather Seamus (a wisecracking retired priest) and, later, nanny-turned-partner Mary Catherine holding the household together. That domestic chaos is the series' secret weapon: Patterson pairs it against some of his most theatrical New York set-pieces — hostage sieges at St. Patrick's Cathedral, a serial killer targeting the city's elite, international manhunts that pull…

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