NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After teaming up on a bestseller about the murder of four University of Idaho students, James Patterson and Vicky Ward are collaborating on a book about the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the hunt for his al<\/p>\n
NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After teaming up on a bestseller about the murder of four University of Idaho students, James Patterson<\/a> and Vicky Ward are collaborating on a book about the fatal shooting<\/a> of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson and the hunt for his alleged killer, Luigi Mangione<\/a>.<\/p>\n Little, Brown & Company announced the book, which currently has no title or release date. Patterson, one of the world’s bestselling novelists, and Ward, an investigative reporter who has worked at CNN and Esquire, plan to draw upon exclusive interviews, firsthand reporting and court transcripts, among other sources.<\/p>\n Mangione has pleaded not guilty to a federal murder charge for last December’s shooting of Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel. Mangione, an Ivy League graduate from a prominent Maryland real estate family, has since become a symbol of frustration with the health care system.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a story about the American Dream Gone Wrong. It\u2019s also a story of one young man\u2019s descent from Ivy League graduate to notorious accused killer to so-called political martyr,\u201d Patterson said in a statement Wednesday. <\/p>\n Patterson’s and Ward’s \u201cThe Idaho Four,\u201d published last month, quickly became a national bestseller after Bryan Kohberger was sentenced July 23 to four consecutive life sentences<\/a> without parole for the fatal stabbings<\/a> of students Xana Kernodle, Madison Mogen, Ethan Chapin and Kaylee Goncalves in 2022.<\/p>\n Hillel Italie, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After teaming up on a bestseller about the murder of four University of Idaho…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":48100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[64,63,457,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-48099","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-books","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}