- Hardcover: 336 pages
- Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd; First Edition edition (2 Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0718147588
- ISBN-13: 978-0718147587
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.4 x 3.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (53 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 539,866 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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PJ Tracy is about to become a household name (Daily Mirror )
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Grace MacBride, Annie Belinsky, and Deputy Sharon Mueller are driving from Minneapolis to Green Bay, Wisconsin, where Sharon believes a new serial killer is just warming up, about to terrorize the city if Grace's software can't identify him soon. A couple of detours later and the women find themselves deep in woodland where, to Annie's citified horror, the car breaks down. They eventually stumble across Four Corners, a crossroads town where they hoped to find a land line and a mechanic.What they find instead is a ghost town where everything appears normal apart from the complete absence of life and severed phone lines in every building. When the three become witness to a horrifying double murder committed by soldiers who have closed the town to the outside world for reasons the women can't begin to imagine, they find themselves running for their lives! With all the hallmarks that made "Want to Play?" and "Live Bait" so successful - crackling dialogue, great characters and striking pace - this next novel will take PJ Tracy to new levels.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Having read and thoroughly enjoyed the first two books featuring the Monkeewrench crew, I was looking forward to this offering from the mother and daughter writing team that is PJ Tracy.
To say I was disappointed by this book would be an understatement. 'Want to Play' was an exceptional story, 'Live Bait' saw a dip in form slightly but was still an entertaining read, but 'Dead Run' is by far the worst of the three. The villains of piece were added on as an afterthought, there is no depth of their character, no attempt to explain or even understand their motives, no background on them to find out why they do what they do. They disapper as inconspicously as they enter. As such, it is very hard to at any point imagine any real threat towards our three interpid heroines.
I am hoping that this is a one off, and that Tracy will return to form with 'Snow Blind' as there is no doubting that they are gifted writers as 'Want to Play?' in particular shows, but I do think they need to break from the characters they keep rehashing - in particular the monkeewrench crew - as there really is nothing else left to their characters to explore and we're left with the same characters doing the same things in each book.
Magozzi and Gino should, in my opinion, stay a part of future books providing they get some interesting, fresh characters to interact with and perhaps leave Grace as Magozzi's love interest, but the rest need to go before the series of books become ever more tedious.
All in all, immensely disappointing and not even close to the edge of your seat thriller delivered by the first two installments.
To say I was disappointed by this book would be an understatement. 'Want to Play' was an exceptional story, 'Live Bait' saw a dip in form slightly but was still an entertaining read, but 'Dead Run' is by far the worst of the three. The villains of piece were added on as an afterthought, there is no depth of their character, no attempt to explain or even understand their motives, no background on them to find out why they do what they do. They disapper as inconspicously as they enter. As such, it is very hard to at any point imagine any real threat towards our three interpid heroines.
I am hoping that this is a one off, and that Tracy will return to form with 'Snow Blind' as there is no doubting that they are gifted writers as 'Want to Play?' in particular shows, but I do think they need to break from the characters they keep rehashing - in particular the monkeewrench crew - as there really is nothing else left to their characters to explore and we're left with the same characters doing the same things in each book.
Magozzi and Gino should, in my opinion, stay a part of future books providing they get some interesting, fresh characters to interact with and perhaps leave Grace as Magozzi's love interest, but the rest need to go before the series of books become ever more tedious.
All in all, immensely disappointing and not even close to the edge of your seat thriller delivered by the first two installments.
13 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Patricia and Traci are at it again with their Monkeewrench characters, first (and best) seen in Want to Play? and followed up with Live Bait. I’m led to understand that they plan to write five novels in all in this series, but they had better come up with some better ideas and execution than this one, otherwise they might not make it to number four. The central theme of Dead Run is the release of large quantities of Sarin nerve gas by right-wing extremists – a topic I have more than a passing interest in since I was on an adjacent subway train on my way to work in Tokyo in March 1995 at the exact time of the Aum Shinrikyo attack who used the very same chemical on the subway and killed some 13 commuters.
If I had composed this review at the half-way stage of the book I would have mentioned how much I was enjoying it, because the build-up was created expertly, thoroughly and suspensefully. I was expecting this to be their best work yet – but I was ultimately left with the impression that the writers had devoted months and months to the story escalation and, when they found themselves with nothing to do one boring Tuesday afternoon, they wrote The End. What an anti-climax! This was a storyline that was at least topical and potentially riveting but culminated in an ending that, in effect, was covered in three words : “We did it”. And by that, I mean the pressing of a few keys on a PC keyboard – hardly a suitable counterpoint to an expansive plot line which covered large-scale terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, thousands of potential fatalities and basically an event to up-scale 9/11. Imagine, if you will, those various jets flying towards their destinations when, moments before impact, some geek hundreds of miles away hits the ‘Enter’ key and the aircraft suddenly return to their original flight-paths and everyone lives happily ever after. If Dead Run were to be made into a film, I don’t expect it would be directed by Jerry Buckheimer.
Since there are some specific, if tongue-in-cheek, observations in the story about how differently women handle a crisis compared to men (guess who gets the vote!) it raises the question of the gender of author best suited to compose a novel built around bombs, guns and WMD. Remember, I didn’t raise this sexist issue – the authors did, so they stand to be counted in this regard. In the meantime we can only hope that we will one day defeat Al Qaeda using an X-Box 360……who knows, maybe to some in distant lands that might sound like a weapon of mass destruction
If I had composed this review at the half-way stage of the book I would have mentioned how much I was enjoying it, because the build-up was created expertly, thoroughly and suspensefully. I was expecting this to be their best work yet – but I was ultimately left with the impression that the writers had devoted months and months to the story escalation and, when they found themselves with nothing to do one boring Tuesday afternoon, they wrote The End. What an anti-climax! This was a storyline that was at least topical and potentially riveting but culminated in an ending that, in effect, was covered in three words : “We did it”. And by that, I mean the pressing of a few keys on a PC keyboard – hardly a suitable counterpoint to an expansive plot line which covered large-scale terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, thousands of potential fatalities and basically an event to up-scale 9/11. Imagine, if you will, those various jets flying towards their destinations when, moments before impact, some geek hundreds of miles away hits the ‘Enter’ key and the aircraft suddenly return to their original flight-paths and everyone lives happily ever after. If Dead Run were to be made into a film, I don’t expect it would be directed by Jerry Buckheimer.
Since there are some specific, if tongue-in-cheek, observations in the story about how differently women handle a crisis compared to men (guess who gets the vote!) it raises the question of the gender of author best suited to compose a novel built around bombs, guns and WMD. Remember, I didn’t raise this sexist issue – the authors did, so they stand to be counted in this regard. In the meantime we can only hope that we will one day defeat Al Qaeda using an X-Box 360……who knows, maybe to some in distant lands that might sound like a weapon of mass destruction
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
After PJ Tracy's previous 2 books I was expecting a great read, but this one was wholly unsatisfying. The villians had no character, and even their motive was just given in a throw away line towards the end. It felt like it was finished in a hurry.
There was also a blatent error in the plot, that these so called computer experts were relying on photo images being faxed! It seems that for the techy geeks, in their haste to write computer games and save the world, digital imaging technology has bypassed them!!
There was also a blatent error in the plot, that these so called computer experts were relying on photo images being faxed! It seems that for the techy geeks, in their haste to write computer games and save the world, digital imaging technology has bypassed them!!
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Sitting on the edge of my seat
Although other P. J. Tracy books have their moments when the plot lulls, the suspense slackens, and the reader breathes a sigh of boredom and toddles off for another cup of tea,... Read more
Published 25 days ago by Dorothy Shaw
Dead run
I read some of the reviews for this book and hesitated in buying it. Ignore them, it's a really good read from start to finish.
Published 26 days ago by Sophie
Amazeballs!!
Yet Again The Mother Daughter Writing Duo Do It Again. P. J The Mum & Tracy The Daughter! These Books Are Up There With Tess Gerritsan! Read more
Published 2 months ago by lou taylor
Gripping
Definitely as good as Want to Play. Lots of twists & turns in a very unique plot.
Couldn't put it down!
Couldn't put it down!
Published 7 months ago by gingernut111
Wasted an afternoon on this!
Having read 'Live Bait' and been somewhat disappointed, I was urged by a fan of this mother-and-daughter combo to give them another chance. Double disappointment! Read more
Published 10 months ago by Bookworm75
Stand alone it's good. As part of a series it's a bit weak!
As a stand alone book, this is an interesting read. However if you have read other books in the Monkeewrench series this book is quite weak, and nowhere near as good as the other... Read more
Published 18 months ago by N. Hunt
Probably the worst book I've ever had the misfortune to read!
Wafer thin predictable plot mixed with two dimensional characters and a smattering of man hating thrown in for good measure! Read more
Published 21 months ago by Andrew Graham Cowley
FANTASTIC READ!! REALLY ENJOYED
REALLY GOOD READ, DIDN'T WANT TO PUT THE BOOK DOWN, WOULD RECOMMEND THAT YOU READ ALL THE BOOKS IN ORDER IN THE SERIES AS PARTS WONT REALLY MAKE SENSE OTHERWISE! Read more
Published on 17 April 2009 by LIZSKI
Abysmal.
I bought this for £1 in a sale and tried reading it on a long train journey. I've read and enjoyed every book by Harlan Coben, Michael Connelly, James Lee Burke, Robert Crais, Lee... Read more
Published on 16 April 2009 by M. J. Sargent
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