Best-selling author James Patterson and publisher Little, Brown at Hachette Books are placing a massive bet this week.

They will unveil a new low-priced imprint called Bookshots that has ambitious plans to roll out more than 100 new titles with a rock bottom price: $4.99.

The compact paperbacks will be only 150 pages long — designed to be read in a single sitting.

The latest novel featuring Patterson’s well-known character, Alex Cross, will help kick-start the new imprint with a 500,000-copy first printing.

Also on tap is the new imprint’s only non-fiction title: “In Their Own Words, Trump vs. Clinton: Everything You Need to Know to Vote Your Conscience.”

“If that cost $27, I am not sure I would want it,” said Patterson at a press conference held on Monday. “At $4.99 I would.”

There are 117 titles on tap in the series that Patterson hopes will entice a new generation of readers to the fast-paced action thrillers.

Asked if he hoped this was going to be the gateway to people reading deeper, longer books down the road, he said, “No. This is the real thing. I think it is its own thing.”

Patterson is convinced he is onto the biggest revolution in book publishing since the dawn of the paperback in World War II.

“There’s no risk,” Patterson insisted an interview with Media Ink.

“We have enough for two years’ worth of books right now,” he said.

“If [Bookshots] gets really hot, we’ll see them in drug stores,” he said.

So far, he said, he has personally written about 20 of the new books.