Impossible as it seems, a vicious South American crime lord has taken over the streets of New York, bringing the worst lawlessness and violence the city has ever seen. Police gunned down in cold blood. Judges shot dead in the middle of the courtroom as shocked and terrified onlookers scramble for cover. Mayhem has been unleashed and taken over—and Manhattan’s beleaguered mayor demands that super cop Detective Michael Bennett find a way to end the madness.

Bennett, putting his family’s safety first, takes his ten kids and their beautiful nanny, Mary Catherine, out of the chaos on a so-called vacation to a reclusive area in upstate New York. But instead of escaping the violence it follows them, and they find themselves in the middle of another nightmare that threatens to destroy the entire family. And the danger, Bennett soon finds, isn't only coming from the crime lord’s killers—federal prosecutor Tara McLellan is back on the scene and Bennett’s powerful attraction to her endangers his tenuous relationship with Mary Catherine.

A no-holds-barred, pedal-to-the-floor, action-packed novel, I, Michael Bennett is James Patterson at his most thrilling best.