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The Picasso Heist

A Thriller

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By James Patterson

By Howard Roughan

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On Sale
Oct 13, 2025
Publisher
Hachette Audio
ISBN-13
9781668648377

Price

$24.99

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There are millions of reasons why Halston Graham became an undercover art thief. 
 
The art world ignites with the discovery of a previously unknown Picasso painting. After being hidden away for fifty years in the attic of a French villa, it’s valued at $100 million and put up for auction. Echelon, the Upper East Side auction house brokering the sale, is flooded with interest. Wealthy collectors and museum directors circle publicly, while organized-crime operatives—and a surveillance team from the Criminal Division of the US Attorney’s Office—keep a lower profile.

None of the interested parties have a chance at winning the Picasso without the help of Halston Graham. The young auction-house employee graduated second in her class at Columbia, but she’s a first-rate art thief—and an expert gambler who knows how to calculate the odds and play her considerable leverage against all sides.
 
To complete the Picasso Heist, she must stay one step ahead of the truth before the gavel falls.

James Patterson

About the Author

James Patterson is the world’s bestselling author, best known for his many enduring fictional characters and series, including Alex Cross, the Women’s Murder Club, Michael Bennett, Maximum Ride, Middle School, I Funny, and Jacky Ha-Ha. Patterson’s writing career is characterized by a single mission: to prove to everyone, from children to adults, that there is no such thing as a person who “doesn’t like to read,” only people who haven’t found the right book. He’s given over a million books to schoolkids and over forty million dollars to support education, and endowed over five thousand college scholarships for teachers. He writes full-time and lives in Florida with his family.

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Howard Roughan

About the Author

Howard Roughan has cowritten several books with James Patterson and is the author of The Promise of a Lie and The Up and Comer. He lives in Florida with his wife and son.

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