- Hardcover: 312 pages
- Publisher: Little, Brown; First edition (1 Feb 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0316879231
- ISBN-13: 978-0316879231
- Product Dimensions: 24 x 15.2 x 3.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,606,688 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Electrifying. (The Times )
Exemplary ... Compelling ... A taut piece of storytelling. (Mail on Sunday ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Exemplary ... Compelling ... A taut piece of storytelling. (Mail on Sunday ) --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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At welve, Nathan had seen just about everything ... Now all he wants to see is thirteen
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
“Nathan’s Run” is the second John Gilstrap book I have read, the first one I read being the one that was actually published after this one, “At all costs”. Both books bear remarkable similarities being stories about flight from what are normally considered the protecting authorities.
Nathan Bailey isn’t your average 12 year old American kid. Not only has been imprisoned in a correctional centre but after being attacked by one of the guards he’s killed the guard and escaped. Now on the run from the chasing authorities Nathan is being condemned by the media and is seemingly without allies. When he manages to get on air with the nation’s favourite radio chat show host, called “The Bitch” he begins to tell his story of the death of his parents, his brutal uncle and the beatings and assaults in the correctional centre. Nathan’s tragic story seems to split society and suddenly the phone calls to the radio station seem to begin to support the poor boy. Warren Michaels the policeman in charge of recapturing Nathan starts to draw parallels with his own son, who was killed in a motor accident, with the haunted attitude that Nathan projects he becomes more determined not only to recapture the youngster but to ensure that no further harm comes to the boy.
This is a real page turner of a thriller and once the first couple of chapters have drawn you in you’ll be hooked until the last page. The plot of the story does require the reader to take more than a couple of leaps of faith and logic to keep with the sense of it all, but the rapid pace of the story telling more than makes up for this.
Like one of the other reviewers has mentioned I was slightly disappointed with the ending in so much as we had a great climax to the whole proceedings which when completed just ended full stop. A little chapter of wrap-up would have served well here.
John Gilstrap certainly seems to be an author to look out for and anyone planning their holiday reading material could do a lot worse than choose this book.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I have just ordered his other book(Scott Free) after picking up this gem in a car boot sale for 25p (actually it was two for 50p - the other book being A Touch of Frost - which is better than the TV series and Inspector Frost had me in stitches)
...anyway back to this book, considering it is his first effort it moves along at a fare old pace and due to the fact you sympathise straight away with the lead character it becomes a real page turner. OK so the story might be far fetched but what the hell its a great read. The ending even brought a tear to my eye, the last book to do that was Lord of the Rings, you may of heard of it!
...anyway back to this book, considering it is his first effort it moves along at a fare old pace and due to the fact you sympathise straight away with the lead character it becomes a real page turner. OK so the story might be far fetched but what the hell its a great read. The ending even brought a tear to my eye, the last book to do that was Lord of the Rings, you may of heard of it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The sheer pace of this novel is its strongest point. You are involved from about page 3 and can't help but get sucked into the young boy's nightmare journey. I constantly had to back-track as my enthusiasm to find out what was going to happen meant that I was reading too quickly and missing details.
The story-line is improbable and lacks complications and/or meaningful twists. The ending too could have closed off a few issues a little better. However, this is a very good first novel and Gilstrap clearly knows how to attract and sustain interest.
I would have thought this would have been snapped up as a movie already, but perhaps that will come.
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Nathan's Run was one of the first book i've read from John Gilstrap.
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This book is a great adventure! A great read by an author who is not so well known but should be!! All his books are fantastic nail biting reads. Highly recommended.
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