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Kill List

Special Interview: A Conversation with Best-Selling Author James Patterson

Kill List

Audible | Novel

True Crime

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

On this special episode, Kill List host Carl Miller sits down for an in-depth conversation with best-selling crime novelist James Patterson, whose long-running Alex Cross book series is the inspiration for the new Amazon Prime series Cross. They’ll discuss where Patterson gets his inspiration, and draw parallels between the challenges Carl faced investigating Kill List, and the obstacles Patterson’s famous fictional detective goes up against when trying to catch his villains. Patterson’s latest Cross novel, The House of Cross, hits shelves this month.


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0:00.0

Wondry Plus subscribers can binge all episodes of K-A-List early and ad-free.

0:04.6

Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or on Apple Podcasts.

0:13.9

Hey there, it's Carl.

0:16.0

Kill-Wlist continues with new episodes dropping weekly on Tuesdays,

0:20.4

each of which takes a deep dive into

0:22.7

cases from across the investigation and across the world. But today, we've got something different.

0:29.8

It's a special interview I recorded with James Patterson, the best-selling author of the

0:35.0

Alex Cross series. I hope you enjoy it,

0:38.1

and don't forget to come back on Tuesday

0:40.2

for the next episode of Kill List.

0:42.9

We'll be taking you to Wisconsin,

0:45.1

where a bitter feud threatens to tear a family apart.

0:51.9

The series tells the story of a secret dark web kill list, how we got hold of it and our race against time to warn its targets.

1:02.1

It was an investigation that began with a tiny little vulnerability on a darknet murder for higher site that allowed us to intercept the kill

1:13.0

orders in secret that were being sent to the site. The authors of these orders, they had no

1:18.8

idea that we were able to see them, but we could. There's one guy and I only have his name

1:25.5

and the city he lives in. How can I hire a killer to kill him?

1:29.7

I want her to be killed, but it should seem she is dead because of accident, not by murder.

1:35.8

Seeking house to be burned down with occupants inside. No survivors.

1:41.7

What started there on the dark net soon expanded all over the world.

1:49.6

Zurich, Beverly Hills, Berlin, a small fishing village in Spain, a Wisconsin suburb,

1:55.7

and it put us in contact with police forces, the FBI Interpol.

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