Billion-Dollar Ransom: A Thriller

by Duane Swierczynski, James Patterson, Cynthia Farrell (Read by)

Overview

It would take a perfect plan to collect a billion-dollar ransom.

So here’s the plan.
Five innocent people. In different locations.  All kidnapped at the same moment in time.
Two children taken from a private school bus.  
A film producer and a movie star grabbed at a hideaway resort. 
A beautiful wife whisked off the streets of Beverly Hills. 
A billionaire wants his family back. 
The cash, gold, jewels, crypto is all ready.
There’s only one problem: a brilliant, very stubborn FBI agent. 
Special Agent Nicky Gordon doesn’t want to pay the kidnappers. 
Not a dime.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798228570788
Publisher:	Blackstone Publishing
Publication date:	09/01/2025
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 7.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Duane Swierczynski is the Edgar-nominated author of nine novels including Canary, Severance Package, and the Shamus Award-winning Charlie Hardie series (Fun and Games, Hell and Gone, Point and Shoot). He's written over 250 comics for Marvel, DC, Dark Horse, Valiant and IDW, including The Black Hood, the first comic for Archie's Dark Circle imprint. Swierczynski has also collaborated with CSI creator Anthony E. Zuiker on the bestselling Level 26 series. He lives in Burbank with his wife and children.


James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Tiger Woods, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. Patterson has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton, Dolly Parton, and Michael Crichton. He has told the story of his own life in James Patterson by James Patterson and received an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal.
Duane Swierczynski is the two-time Edgar-nominated author of ten novels—including Revolver and Canary as well as the graphic novel Breakneck—many of which are in development for film or TV. Most recently, Swierczynski co-scripted James Patterson’s The Guilty, an Audible Original starring John Lithgow and Bryce Dallas Howard. He lives in Southern California with his family.

Cynthia Farrell is a narrator, musical theater singer, and voice-over actor in English and in Spanish: her mother is part Spanish/Costa Rican. She has enjoyed narrating in the young adult, as well as sci-fi, crime drama, romance, Christian, children's, and nonfiction genres. She feels that her strong definition of character, musicality within the text, diction, and tone stem from from her work as a theater singer. She lives with her daughters in Manhattan.