The 5th Horseman

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name = The 5th Horseman
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image_caption = First edition cover
author = James Patterson and Maxine Paetro
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country = United States
language = English
series = Women's Murder Club
genre = Thriller, Mystery novel
publisher = Little, Brown
release_date = 27 February 2006
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media_type = Print (Hardcover)
pages = 410 pp (first edition, hardback)
isbn = ISBN 978-0316159777 (first edition, hardback)
preceded_by = 4th of July
followed_by = The 6th Target

"The 5th Horseman" is the fifth book in the Women's Murder Club series featuring Lindsay Boxer by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro first published on February 2006. The novel like many in the series was commercially successful and repeatedly appeared in Publisher's Weekly bestseller lists, and high in the 2006 list at the end of that year. [cite web | title=Publisher's Weekly bestsellers | last= | first= | work=Publisher's Weekly | url=http://www.publishersweekly.com | date= | accessdate=2008-02-22 ]

Book jacket summary:quotation
Somebody dies. A young mother is recuperating in a San Francisco hospital when she is suddenly gasping for breath. The call button fails to bring help in time. The hospital's doctors, some of the best in the nation, are completely mystified by her death. How did this happen? Apocalypse nears.

This is not the first such case at the hospital. Just as patients are about to be released with a clean bill of health, their conditions take a devastating turn for the worse.

Accompanied by the newest member of the Women's Murder Club, Yuki Castellano, Lieutenant Lindsay Boxer probes deeper into the incidents. Could these cases just be appalling coincidences? Or is a maniac playing God with people's lives? When someone close to the Women's Murder Club begins to exhibit the same frightening symptoms, Lindsay fears no one is safe. The 5th horseman rides.

It is a wild race against time as Lindsay's investigation reveals a hospital administration determined to shield its reputation at all costs. And while the hospital wages an explosive court battle that grips the entire nation, Lindsay and the Women's Murder Club hunt for a merciless killer among its esteemed medical staff.

Release details

*2006, USA, Little Brown ISBN 978-0316159777, 27 February 2006, hardback (First edition)

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