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The BigBadWolf Also by James Patterson The Thomas Berryman Number Season of the Machete See How They Run The Midnight Club Along Came a Spider Kiss the Girls Hide Seek Jack Jill Miracle on the 17th Green (with Peter de Jonge) Cat Mouse When the Wind Blows Pop Goes the Weasel Black Friday Cradle and All Roses Are Red 1st to Die Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas Violets Are Blue 2nd Chance (with Andrew Gross) The Beach House (with Peter de Jonge) Four Blind Mice The Jester (with Andrew Gross) The Lake House Big Bad Wolf A NOVEL BY James Patterson LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY BOSTON NEW YORK LONDON Copyright ? 2003 by James Patterson All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without permission in writing from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages in a review. The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author. Little, Brown and Company 1271 Avenue of the Americas New York, NY 10020 Visit our Web site at . ISBN: 0-7595-0829-1 First eBook: Edition: November 2003 For Joe Denyeau Prologue THE GODFATHERS THERE WAS AN IMPROBABLE MURDER STORY told about the Wolf that had made its way into police lore and then spread quickly from Washington to New York to London and to Moscow. No one knew if it was actually the Wolf. But it was never of?cially disproved, and it was consistent with other outrageous incidents in the Russian gangster’s life. According to the story, the Wolf had gone to the high-security supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, on a Sunday night in early summer. He had bought his way inside to meet with the Italian mobster and don Augustino “Little Gus” Palumbo. Prior to this visit, the Wolf had a reputation for being impulsive and sometimes lacking patience. Even so, he had been planning this