The Final Judgment by Richard North Patterson

They split their time between the San Francisco Bay Area and Martha's Vineyard. His family consists of 5 children, one of whom is his adopted daughter Katherine who graduated Summa Cum Laude from Vanderbilt University in 2007 with a B.A. He has served on boards of several advocacy groups dealing with gun violence, political reform, and reproductive rights. Patterson was a past chairman of the National Governing Board for Common Cause. His has also won the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. Since then he has written 11 additional novels, with eight consecutive international bestsellers, including No Safe Place, Eyes of a Child, and Dark Lady. He published three more novels before retiring, in 1993, from the practice of law to devote himself to writing. Once it was completed, he found a publisher, and the novel won the Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category 'Best First Mystery Novel (American)' in 1980. He began his first book, The Lasko Tangent, as part of a creative writing course at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Richard did not start writing until he was 29 and already out of law school. Securities and Exchange Commission to the Watergate Special Prosecutor. He also served as the liaison for the U.S.

In 1971 he graduated from Case Western Reserve Law School and served as an Assistant Attorney General for the state of Ohio and has been partner in several of the country’s leading law firms. He graduated in 1968 from Ohio Wesleyan University. While still a child, he moved with his parents to Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio, and graduated from Bay High School in 1964. He was born in Berkeley, California, the eldest child of a corporate executive and a housewife. Richard North Patterson (born February 22, 1947) is an American author of fiction.

The Final Judgment by Richard North Patterson