Authors James Patterson and Mike Lupica in conversation with Nancy Allen

Left Bank Books presents award winning and #1 New York Times bestselling author James Patterson and award winning columnist and New York Times bestselling author Mike Lupica as they discuss the second book in the Jane Smith series. Jane Smith is being hailed as James Patterson's greatest character yet, a tough-as-nails attorney up against a relentless killer. Hard to Kill features possibly the author's most stunning twist ever. Join us at the Touhill Performing Arts Center for this incredible event. Books will be pre-signed for ticket holders. Each ticket for the event includes one signed copy of Hard to Kill. Patterson & Lupica will be in conversation with bestselling author Nancy Allen. Allen co-wrote with James Patterson for The #1 Lawyer and The Jailhouse Lawyer. About the Speakers James Patterson is the most popular storyteller of our time. He is the creator of unforgettable characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women's Murder Club, Jane Smith, and Maximum Ride, and of breathtaking true stories about the Kennedys, John Lennon, and Tiger Woods, as well as our military heroes, police officers, and ER nurses. Patterson has coauthored #1 bestselling novels with Bill Clinton and Dolly Parton, and collaborated most recently with Michael Crichton on the blockbuster Eruption. He has told the story of his own life in James Patterson by James Patterson and received an Edgar Award, ten Emmy Awards, the Literarian Award from the National Book Foundation, and the National Humanities Medal. Mike Lupica has been inducted into the National Sports Media Hall of Fame. He is an award-winning columnist for the New York Daily News and has written 17 New York Times bestsellers. Nancy Allen practiced law for fifteen years in her native Ozarks and served as a law instructor at Missouri State University for sixteen years. She is also the author of the Ozarks Mystery series. About Hard to Kill Jane Smith is being hailed as James Patterson's greatest character yet, a tough-as-nails attorney up against a relentless killer. Hard to Kill features possibly the author's most stunning twist ever. Attorney Jane Smith is mounting an impossible criminal defense. Her client, Rob Jacobson, is the unluckiest of the unlucky. No sooner is he accused of killing a family of three in the Hamptons than a second family is gunned down. It's not double jeopardy. It's not double murder. It's double triple homicide. Jane's career has spanned from NYPD beat cop to Hamptons courtroom. She's tough to beat. She's even tougher to kill. The defense may never rest.