The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe

<p><b>BORN UNWANTED. BECAME A STAR. DIED AN ICON.</b><br><br>Before Marilyn Monroe, there was Norma Jeane Mortenson. No one would have thought that the girl who spent her childhood between foster homes and orphanages would one day become the global icon of the twenty-first century.<br><br><i>The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe</i> tells the extraordinary story of Marilyn Monroe’s life – her rise to fame, the relationships and personal difficulties that kept her up at night, and the terrible circumstances of her death.<br><br>Compellingly and compassionately told, James Patterson and Imogen Edwards-Jones draw from rigorous research to explore the life and death of remarkable woman who was Marilyn Monroe.<br><br>__________________________________<br><br><b>PRAISE FOR JAMES PATTERSON</b><br><br>''It''s no mystery why James Patterson is the world''s most popular thriller writer ... Simply put: nobody does it better.'' JEFFERY DEAVER<br><br>''No one gets this big without amazing natural storytelling talent - which is what Jim has, in spades.'' LEE CHILD<br><br>''Patterson boils a scene down to the single, telling detail, the element that defines a character or moves a plot along. It''s what fires off the movie projector in the reader''s mind.'' MICHAEL CONNELLY<br><br>''James Patterson is The Boss. End of.'' IAN RANKIN<br><br>''The master storyteller of our times'' HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON<br><br>''One of the greatest storytellers of all time'' PATRICIA CORNWELL</p>