Series
Doc Savage (Patterson and Sitts)
Brian Sitts & James Patterson · 2 novels · 2022–2024
The Perfect Assassin and Murder Island relaunch the pulp-era Doc Savage character for a contemporary thriller readership, with James Patterson and Brian Sitts pairing Doc Savage's inventor-adventurer legacy with the crime-thriller pacing and superhero-adjacent stakes Patterson's imprint is known for. Both books reached the New York Times bestseller list on release. As part of the wider Doc Savage franchise, they sit alongside decades of earlier pulp and paperback revivals of the same character rather than starting the concept from scratch.
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Doc Savage (Patterson and Sitts) at the centre, its books fanned around what holds them. Pick anything for its details, and zoom out for similar series in orbit — the reading order above lists the same books as text.
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- 2020s2
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Bright and intense: 100% of this series' placed works, the catalog's 44%.
this series · the catalog · one dot = one book2 of 2 works carry a tone
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- Murder Islanddarkest · most intense
- The Perfect Assassinbrightest · calmest