I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

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.