Matthew Bannon a poor srt student living in New York City finds a leather bag filled with diamonds during a chaotic attack at Grand Central Station. Plans for a worry-free life with his girlfriend fill his thoughts - until he realises that he is being hunted. Trailing him is the Ghost the world’s greatest assassin who has just pulled off his most high-profile hit: killing Walter Zelvas a top member of the international Diamond Syndicate. There’s only one small problem: the diamonds he was supposed to retrieve from Zelvas are missing. Now the Ghost is on Bannon’s trail - but so is a rival assassin who like nothing more than to make the Ghost disappear for ever.