From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller "The President is Missing." The man behind the hugely popular Alex Cross series has interviewed Hernandez's closest confidants to tell the complete, tangled story of the NFL star who became a murderer. Patterson unfolds Hernandez's complicated and disturbing tale. This unsettling true-crime thriller is another fast-paced and gripping book from Patterson. Aaron Hernandez was a college football All-American who became the youngest player in the NFL and later reached the Super Bowl. He was a star for the league-dominating New England Patriots, who extended his contract for a record-breaking $40 million. Every step of Hernandez's career as a professional athlete was followed in the headlines, yet he led a secret life—one that ended in a maximum-security prison. What drove him to act so wrong so quickly?.