About the Author

ANDREW GROSS is the author of the New York Times and international bestsellers Eyes Wide Open, The Blue Zone, Don’t Look Twice, Reckless, and The Dark Tide, which was nominated for the Best Thriller of the Year Award from the International Thriller Writers. He is also coauthor of five number one bestsellers with James Patterson, including Judge & Jury and Lifeguard. He lives in Westchester County, New York, with his wife, Lynn.

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By Andrew Gross

Eyes Wide Open

Reckless

Don’t Look Twice

The Dark Tide

The Blue Zone

Novels by Andrew Gross and James Patterson

Judge & Jury

Lifeguard

3rd Degree

The Jester

2nd Chance

Credits

Cover design by Mary Schuck

Copyright

This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

15 SECONDS. Copyright © 2012 by Andrew Gross. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

FIRST EDITION

Epub Edition JULY 2012 ISBN: 9780062196354

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Gross, Andrew.

15 seconds / Andrew Gross. — 1st ed.

p. cm.

ISBN 978-0-06-165597-5

I. Title. II. Title: Fifteen seconds.

PS3607.R654.A613 2012

813'.6—dc23

2011038811

12 13 14 15 16 OV/RRD 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

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