Patrick Lee
Hardcover | Pages: 328 pages Rating: 3.99 | 7464 Users | 1045 Reviews
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| Title | : | Runner (Sam Dryden #1) |
| Author | : | Patrick Lee |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 328 pages |
| Published | : | February 18th 2014 by Minotaur Books |
| Categories | : | Thriller. Fiction. Mystery. Science Fiction. Suspense. Mystery Thriller. Action |
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Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she’s running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal—to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesn’t know much beyond her own name, Rachel. She only remembers the past two months of her life—and that she has a skill that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge.Dryden, who lost his wife and young daughter in an accident five years ago, agrees to help her try to unravel her own past and make sense of it, to protect her from the people who are moving heaven and earth to find them both. Although Dryden is only one man, he’s a man with the extraordinary skills and experience—as a Ranger, a Delta, and five years doing off-the-book black ops with an elite team. But, as he slowly begins to discover, the highly trained paramilitary forces on their heels is the only part of the danger they must face. Will Rachel’s own unremembered past be the most deadly of them all?
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| Original Title: | Runner |
| ISBN: | 1250030730 (ISBN13: 9781250030733) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://us.macmillan.com/runner/PatrickLee |
| Series: | Sam Dryden #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Mystery & Thriller (2014) |
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Ratings: 3.99 From 7464 Users | 1045 ReviewsJudge About Books Runner (Sam Dryden #1)
This is one of those books that can cause lack of sleep due to excessive reading - it's THAT good. Sam Dryden, the main character, is an ex-CIA operative out for a midnight run when an interesting problem is dropped in his lap. A 12-year-old girl is on the run from shadowy figures that want her dead,and who does she - literally - run into? None other than our man Dryden. The girl has the ability to read minds, so she already knows he's the only one that can help her. Later on, you find out whyRunner was raved about by one of my Goodreads friends, so I picked it up from the library. This story is about a man who happens to be in the best place at the right time, and makes the decision to help a girl that changes his whole life. Sam Dryden has this irresistible compulsion to go running at night, in a certain area. He's been drifting after his personal loss, and believes this is due to his restlessness, and perhaps an existential crisis. He meets a girl who begs him to save her life
Read my review here... http://badassbookreviews.com/runner-b...Or here.... Holy smokes, this book went from 0 to 60 in less than 2 pages and I loved it. Packed with non-stop action, this book had my heart rate going like I was the one running instead of the characters.Action, suspense, and mind control?Runner has a supernatural element that blended flawlessly into the storyline. I love paranormal and supernatural books so this was an added bonus. The supernatural element is so perfectly placed,
Retired black ops specialist Sam Dryden is out for a late evening run when a young girl crashes into him while running for her life. Dryden helps Rachel escape her captors, becoming her protector as they are chased across the country by a powerful, shady members of the military industrial complex and government. Rachel has some repressed mind control skills, and everyone is scared of what she will do when she regains them. I liked that there were interesting plot developments throughout the
I read Mr. Lee's Breach Trilogy and liked it a great deal. So i went out (well actually I didn't go out. That's what we used to do, I actually sent to the library without leaving the house) and snapped this book up. Runner is the first in a new series of books about Mr. Lee's new protagonist Sam Dryden. The word "trilogy" hasn't been used so at this point I'm going with the assumption that this will be a continuing series.Guess we'll see.Sam is a mess. He lost his wife and child before the book
I really enjoyed this thriller, which felt like a cross between Robert Ludlum's The Bourne Identity and Stephen King's Firestarter. Out for a late night run, protagonist Sam Dryden winds up on the run, aiding a mysterious girl named Rachel who has escaped from a facility with no memory of her life before her time there, chased by men -- professionals -- with orders to kill her. The book never lets up, making it hard to put down. Despite the breakneck pacing, there is a decent amount of depth to
Excellent fast paced thriller. Full review to follow erm..sometime. (I'm slammed and nobody is waiting for this one ha!)Highly recommended though. Something a little different and an adrenalin rush of a book.
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