James Patterson - See How They Run

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the product of the authors imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is coincidental.

Copyright 1979, 1997 by James Patterson

All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the US. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.

This edition is published by arrangement with the author.

Originally published as The Jericho Commandment.

Cover design by Steve Snider

Cover illustration by Gabriel Molano

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ISBN: 978-0-446-40931-5

First eBook Edition: May 1997

RAVES FOR

SEE HOW THEY RUN

CREATOR

JAMES PATTERSON

BALTIMORE SUN:

MR. PATTERSON IS A SKILLFUL PLOTTER.

GRAND RAPIDS PRESS:

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JAMES PATTERSON KNOWS HOW TO SELL THRILLS AND SUSPENSE IN CLEAR, UNWAVERING PROSE.

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JAMES PATTERSON IS TO SUSPENSE WHAT DANIELLE STEEL IS TO ROMANCE.

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PATTERSON DEVELOPS CHARACTERS WITH BROAD STROKES AND FINE LINES. EVEN THE VILLAINS ARE MULTILAYERED AND BELIEVABLE.

KANSAS CITY STAR:

PATTERSONS SKILL AT BUILDING SUSPENSE IS ENVIABLE.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:

PATTERSON KNOWS HOW TO KEEP THE POT BOILING.

LEXINGTON HERALD-LEADER:

PATTERSON IS AN EXCELLENT WRITER.

AND HIS LATEST NEWYORK TIMES BESTSELLERS:
HIDE AND SEEK

COSMOPOLITAN:

THE STORY MOVES LIKE LIGHTNING.

PEOPLE:

A TWISTY NARRATIVE THAT BARRELS ALONG SWIFTLY A HAIR-RAISING RIDE.

BOSTON GLOBE:

A NOVEL BUILT FOR SPEED.

PUBLISHERS WEEKLY:

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MASTERFUL A RIVETING PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER. PATTERSON GIVES HIS ADMIRERS A ROLLER-COASTER RIDE THROUGH A VIVID, EMOTIONAL TALE THAT LEADS INEXORABLY TO A TRULY SHATTERING CLIMAX.

KISS THE GIRLS

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Larry King, USA TODAY:

A RIPSNORTING, TERRIFIC READ.

SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER:

AS GOOD AS A THRILLER CAN GET.

HOUSTON CHRONICLE:

BURSTING WITH SUSPENSE AND SURPRISE.

DENVER POST:

A WILD RIDE, FROM THE IVIED HAILS OF SOUTHERN ACADEMIA TO THE CRASHING BIG SUR SURF. ALEX CROSS IS TO THE 90s WHAT MIKE HAMMER WAS TO THE 50s.

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For my grandparents, Charles and Isabelle Morris

Like most of my novels, See How They Run comes right out of my worst nightmares rather than real life. Obviously, the United States boycotted the Moscow Olympics in 1980. I ask the reader to follow my alternate entry in this story.

See How They Run couldnt have been written without the help of a former Israeli soldier now living in New York; without the vivid stories of a survivor who had made the pilgrimage to every concentration camp site in Europewho had also made contact with the radical group known as DIN. Most of all, the book couldnt have reached its present form without the nagging help of the son of a Brooklyn rabbi, who, more often than I would have liked, reminded me to get it down right.

J.P.

The King David Hotel, Jerusalem.

October, 1979.

Five months before the beginning.

A benevolent midaftemoon sun spattered golden streaks over the historic domes and needle spires, up and down the gray-yellow stones of the ancient Holy pity walls. A bottle of Schweppes Bitter Lemon, a pot of English Breakfast tea, and a cold Maccabee beer were brought to the three old friends sitting on the pretty hotel terrace.

It is a fact recorded in several news correspondents notebooksthough not as yet in their newspapersthat a sacred and very secret Jewish brotherhood had existed in Western Europe, America, and Israel since the end of World War II. The group was composed of workingmen and women; of farmers, entertainers, taxi drivers; of wealthy doctors, solicitors, merchants, rabbis; of important government leaders and elite army officers.

No matter how these men and women earned their livings, however, the sworn purpose of the cabal thrust another task on them.

They were to remember the terrible Holocaustevery last abhorrent detail. They were to protect against another unholy conflagration with their lives if need be. They were to relentlessly hunt down those responsible for the first abomination against the Jewish people and against mankind.

Two of the three friends clustered together on the hotel terrace were the secret brotherhoods original leadersthe third was a woman, a wealthy contributor from America.