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Runner
Written by Thomas Perry
Narrated by Joyce Bean
Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
After a nine-year absence, the fiercely resourceful Native American guide Jane Whitefield is back, in the latest superb thriller by award-winning author Thomas Perry. For more than a decade, Jane pursued her unusual profession: "I'm a guide...I show people how to go from places where somebody is trying to kill them to other places where nobody is." Then she promised her husband she would never work again and settled in to live a happy, quiet life as Jane McKinnon, the wife of a surgeon in Amherst, New York.
But when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.That night, regardless of what she wants or the vow that she's made to her husband, Jane must come back to transform one more victim into a runner. And her quest for safety sets in motion a mission that will be a rescue operation-or a chance for revenge.
Runner is Thomas Perry at the top of his form.
But when a bomb goes off in the middle of a hospital fundraiser, Jane finds herself face to face with the cause of the explosion: a young pregnant girl who has been tracked across the country by a team of hired hunters.That night, regardless of what she wants or the vow that she's made to her husband, Jane must come back to transform one more victim into a runner. And her quest for safety sets in motion a mission that will be a rescue operation-or a chance for revenge.
Runner is Thomas Perry at the top of his form.
Author
Thomas Perry
Thomas Perry is the New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty novels, including the critically acclaimed Jane Whitefield series, The Old Man, and The Butcher's Boy, which won the Edgar Award. He lives in Southern California. Follow Thomas on Facebook at @ThomasPerryAuthor.
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Reviews for Runner
Rating: 3.7321427857142857 out of 5 stars
3.5/5
56 ratings4 reviews
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better than I expected. Set in the far future, in a universe in which human civilization is in decline, this novel is built around a double chase. A technologically-oriented secret society wants to capture an empath to use her as a link to their departed founder; meanwhile, a courier tasked with escorting a young monk must escape assassins sent by a competing faction. Their fates collide. The plot carries the characters across several planets, giving Dietz plenty of opportunities to equip his universe with historical depth and explore distinct cultures. The good guys are sympathetic while the villains are suitably loathsome -- although the body count of the innocent and semi-innocent is pretty high. The most frustrating aspect of the book is a peculiar quirk of the author's writing style: freestanding sentence fragments that are really dependent clauses. A habit that can add colloquial punch when used in moderation, but becomes really annoying when deployed too often. It's what colons and semicolons are for; Runner could use more of them.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this book. It was pretty much non-stop action and fairly exciting. Hard to put down.In the distant future, universal technology has crumbled, leaving humankind to exist in a kind of medieval/20th century existence, minus any real technology -- with the exception of a series of rapidly decreasing star ships that go from planet to planet, transporting what people they can, as they were programmed to do hundreds of years ago. It's a bit of a bizarre premise, but if you can accept it, you're off.Jak Rebo is a runner. Runners are hired to travel from planet to planet to deliver items for a stiff price. He's hired to deliver a young boy to another planet. This boy is part of a large religious sect that thinks he's the reincarnation of their leader and has to be tested against another boy from another sect. The problem is, this other sect wants this boy, Lee, dead. (The religion is obviously based on Buddhism.) Along the way, they pick up a female sensitive (clairvoyant) named Lanni Norr, through whom Milos Lysander, the dead founder of the Techno Society has chosen to reveal himself. The Techno Society wants to get the long dead star gates working again, the AIs working, technology working, and will stop at nothing to achieve this, so it's imperative they communicate with Lysander, who doesn't want to communicate with them, only to the general population through Norr. So Norr becomes their target. Additionally, to complicate matters, along the way they pick up another traveler, a giant who's wanted dead or alive, preferably dead. The chase all makes for good reading.This is the first book in a series, apparently, and I enjoyed this one so much, I'll have to get the next one. I don't know how many books there are in this series, however. If you like an entertaining read and enjoy sci fi, this book's for you. Recommended.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A pleasant read and some good ideas. Characters worth caring about.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The ending does a disservice to his readers. Another author more interested in setting the stage for sequels than providing a good work for his readers.