An instant New York Times and USA TODAY bestseller and a thriller readers ultimate fantasy Booklist, this one-of-a-kind anthology pulls together the most beloved characters from the best and most popular thriller series today. Worlds collide! In an unprecedented collaboration, twenty-three of the worlds bestselling and critically acclaimed thriller writers pair their series characters in an eleven-story anthology curated by the International Thriller Writers ITW. The stories in FaceOff feature -Patrick Kenzie vs. Harry Bosch in Red Eye, by Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly -John Rebus vs. Roy Grace in In the Nick of Time, by Ian Rankin and Peter James -Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast in Gaslighted, by R.L. Stine, Douglas Preston, and Lincoln Child -Malachai Samuels vs.