THE NO.1 BESTSELLER JAMES PATTERSON IS BACK AND IN STUNNING FORM "It's all just a game, darling. I play with three other men. Their names are FAMINE, WAR and CONQUEROR. My name is DEATH. You're a very lucky girl - I'm the best player of all." As if to prove it, he stabbed her for the first time. Geoffrey Shafer: a man who never loses, he is prepared to play the game of games for the highest stakes of all. Alex Cross: senior homicide detective, he is determined, whatever the consequences, to unmask the man he has nicknamed the weasel, the prime suspect for a spate of killings Cross has been forbidden to investigate. In POP GOES THE WEASEL, James Patterson has created a formidable villain every reader will see in the shadows when the lights are out, a tender love story, a plot powered by relentless suspense, and psychological thrills kicked up to an all-time high.