Pat Addams :: Author :: It's The Little Things

It's The Little Things - front cover - Adult fiction - Suspense - Mystery Thriller

It's The Little Things - Hostage note from the madman on the back cover, by Pat Addams

It’s the Little Things is a fast paced thriller that takes the reader on a frighteningly realistic journey. A multi-layered adventure spanning the far reaches of the globe as it is seen through the eyes of a psychopathic madman.

Jack Thomas, a Long Island native, went mad at a very early age. Jack has spent the past three decades living and functioning within everyday society as a horrific butcher. Claiming that he has been personally responsible for well over three hundred deaths in his short lifetime; Jack Thomas intends to substantially increase that number in the upcoming year.

Jack has written a detailed manuscript highlighting his bizarre past atrocities. In it he informs the country that he has laid the foundation for an upcoming terror attack of epic proportions. To insure that the manuscript is published and distributed, the sister of a New York based publisher is kidnapped and tortured.

His manuscript taunts and challenges the public to stop him. Jack Thomas enjoys the gamesmanship and the resulting mayhem he creates. It is something he calls ‘thump-thump’. Jack Thomas thrives on the excitement, the thrill, the anticipation; and now, on the possibility of being caught.

It’s the Little Things opens a window into the lives of Becca Willis and her former lover, Roberto Sanchez, the New York publisher, as they battle against time and obstacles to locate and save Roberto’s kidnapped sister.

Utilizing her skills as a freelance reporter for The New York Post, with the manuscript as a guide, Becca follows the madman’s pompous accounting of his past in search of his present day whereabouts. The hunt brings Becca Willis face to face with her own dark demons along the way. Questioning the meaning of life and relationships; Becca cascades through a midlife crisis as she is torn between conflicting priorities. Trying to maintain a balance between saving Roberto’s sister and preventing the madman’s terror attack on her beloved city becomes a new source of conflict between the estranged lovers.

Although Becca Willis had been looking for some adventure in her life, the twists and turns that the arrival of the manuscript have brought her, mayturn out to be more than she had bargained for. Becca’s own selfish desires bring about a tragic turn of events and the pursuer becomes the pursued and unlikely heroes emerge from the sideline.