James Patterson

Kill Me If You Can James Patterson

Matthew Bannon, a poor art student living in New York City, finds a duffel bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his gorgeous girlfriend, Katherine, fill his thoughts until he realizes that he is being hunted, and that whoever is after him won t stop until they have reclaimed the diamonds and exacted their revenge.

Trailing him is the Ghost, the world s greatest assassin, who has just pulled off his most high-profile hit: killing Walter Zelvas, a top member of the international Diamond Syndicate. There s only one small problem: the diamonds he was supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. Now, the Ghost is on Bannon s trail but so is a rival assassin who would like nothing more than to make the Ghost disappear forever. "