Scott Patterson: 9 books

With the immediacy of today’s NASDAQ close and the timeless power of a Greek tragedy, The Quants is at once a masterpiece of explanatory journalism, a gripping tale of ambition and hubris, and an ominous warning about Wall Street’s future. In March of 2006, four of the world’s richest...

A news-breaking account of the global stock market's subterranean battles, Dark Pools portrays the rise of the "bots"--artificially intelligent systems that execute trades in milliseconds and use the cover of darkness to out-maneuver the humans who've created them. In the beginning...

If you’re born different, can you ever fit in? Pembroke Falls only wants to fit in. Under a vapid and materialistic veneer, she hides the secret buried in her DNA for the acceptance of the Selects. But when a deadly virus is unleashed, tearing its victims apart with black growths, Pembroke...

Join Shaklee and Amway, two enterprising aliens hell-bent on selling moonshine to the outer worlds. Towed into low Earth orbit, their penniless campaign immediately collides with human ambition and downhome hillbilly charm. Chief among their opposition is the new president-elect, a genuine...

Jeb, Billie Sue, The Chief and everyone's favorite moonshining pilots are back, this time to fight the invasion of Earth with time out for an intergalactic competitive eating event and a quick trip to Andromeda in a PortaPotty.

Outside Sales is the fourth and final installment of Mans quest to join the Cosmic Country Club. Join our favorite Tennessee boys as they take off for the stars, moonshine in tow.

Over a decade ago, the field of bioethics was established in response to the increased control over the design of living organisms afforded by both medical genetics and biotechnology. Since its introduction, bioethics has become established as an academic discipline with journals and professional...

The Bible has a way of shocking us. If Americans could still blush, we might blush at the words, "Rejoice in the wife of your youth, a lovely deer, a graceful doe. Let her breasts fill you at all times with delight; be intoxicated always in her love" (Proverbs 5:18-19). But, of course, sin...

More than six hundred women-most likely many more-passed as men to fight in the American Civil War, and that's not counting the nurses and spies. In WWI women served as nurses and ambulance drivers, and in Russia Maria Boskareva's Women's Battalion of Death was not the only group of female fighters....