“Escape The Night” is Richard North Patterson’s third suspense novel. In the end, it’s all leading down to one ultimate show down that will reveal the truth for good. But just when you think you know what’s going to happen, the book takes a turn. As the reader follows Adam Shaw in his quest to defend his friend and find his wife’s killer, they may think they are getting close to finding the murderer. The book involves many twists and turns as well as flashbacks. Worse than that, more people are starting to turn up dead. But the truth is going to have to come up in order for anyone or anything in this case to be laid to rest. However, Jason has an airtight alibi as his girlfriend claims that he was with her the whole night at the time of the implied murder.Īdam Shaw must get to the bottom of this secret in a town where the rich and genteel want anything except for their innermost secrets revealed. The novel is a classic detective story that finds the Cantwell’s unstable son Jason as the prime suspect in the murder. Lydia Cantwell is fabulously wealthy, and worse than that, his best friend Harry Cantwell is missing. His life gets more complicated when he discovers the dead body of the wife of his best friend, Lydia Cantwell. Adam Shaw is the so named protagonist in this novel, a society lawyer who is a Northerner in a jealous Southern town that has lots of gossip and secrets. “The Outside Man” is Richard North Patterson’s second novel. He has served on law school and undergraduate school boards and served on the Family Violence Prevention Fund, PEN Center West, the National Partnership For Women And Families, and the Brady Campaign To Prevent Gun Violence. His first novel was The Lasko Tangent and in 1979 won an Edgar Allen Poe Award. He has studied with Jesse Hill Ford at the University of Alabama Birmingham to learn more about fiction writing. He left the firm in 1993 so that he could devote his focus to writing.

Richard North Patterson was a practicing member of the San Francisco office of the firm McCutchen, Doyle, Brown, and Enerson. He was an assistant Attorney General for Ohio State and worked for the Securities & Exchange Commission in San Francisco and Washington D.C.

The Case Western Reserve University awarded him the University President’s Award For Distinguished Alumni and the President’s Award For Excellence as well.

He graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Law in 1971. He was awarded the Distinguished Achievement Citation by that university and also received the Alumni Achievement Award from his fraternity. He graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University in 1968. Richard North Patterson is an American #1 New York Times Bestselling Author of many serious novels.

Exile by Richard North Patterson