Opening paragraph from Patterson’s Sundays at Tiffany’s:  “Michael was running as fast as he could, racing down, thickly congested streets toward New York Hospital – Jane was dying there – when suddenly a scene from the past came back to him, a dizzying rush of overpowering memories that nearly knocked him out of his sneakers.  He remembered sitting with Jane in the Astor Court at the St.  Regis Hotel, the two of them there under circumstances too improbable to image.”

His next bestseller, Run For Your Life, is pubbing February 2; it was #239 on Amazon Jan. 15, while Sundays was #1271