'Blind Curve,' the book I'm working on now, sprang from a crazy incident that happened to me last year while on my book tour. I was pulled out of my car for a minor traffic violation - an incident that escalated into my being thrown into cuffs and told I was going to jail. Except in my story, the hero doesn't get off as easily as I did.

He eventually went back to work for his family's publicly held apparel firm the Leslie Fay Companies. A year later It was followed up by The Dark Tide ( 2007) which was nominated for Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers Association. Gross received a degree in English from Middlebury College in 1974.

He is best known for his collaborations with suspense writer James Patterson. Andrew Gross (born 1952) is an American author of thriller novels including four New York Times bestsellers. They have all been publiAndrew Grossd by William Morrow an imprint of Harper Collins.