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Run (Paperback)

by Jeff Abbott (Author)
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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Sphere (3 Jul 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0751539783
  • ISBN-13: 978-0751539783
  • Product Dimensions: 17.3 x 10.9 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 18,506 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'A Bourne Identity for the 21st Century' Harlan Coben 'Jeff Abbott delivers a frenzy of action in this race-against-the-clock thriller' Lisa Gardner 'Jeff Abbott writes suspense classics full of questions - who, what, why, how - with answers you won't see coming' Lee Child


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One balmy Texas evening, widowed financier Ben Fosberg answers the door to two Homeland Security agents. From the minute he lets them in, his life spirals out of control. A businessman has been killed in a hit gone wrong and Ben's card is in the dead hitman's pocket. The agents have a thousand questions for which he has no answers, but the evidence is still piling up against him when a mysterious stranger, known as Pilgrim, snatches him away from the agents and sets them both on a dangerous journey. Pilgrim's boss has been abducted by a man to whom destroying Ben's life is merely a task for the day. Ben and Pilgrim flee across the US with a hoard of agents and killers on their trail. Ben is still mourning his wife, cruelly murdered two years ago on their honeymoon. He is about to get answers to his questions about Emily's death - but they won't be the ones he was expecting. As betrayal and danger dog them at every turn, Ben and Pilgrim have to uncover a deadly plan and save their own lives - before it's too late...
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Thrilling, 27 Jun 2008
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It's certainly not difficult to see the comparison to The Bourne Identity in Jeff Abbott's new thriller - secret CIA agencies operating to cross purposes and causing major havoc in the world of international terrorism, with no accountability for their actions. Abbott's a good writer for this kind of material, achieving the same immediacy and kinetic energy within the first few pages of the book and creating an incredibly tense situation. There's a difference however - Abbott makes it credible.

Not too credible (our heroes manage with surprising ease to shrug off a number of bullet wounds to manfully get on with the task in hand), but by viewing the situation from a number of different perspectives, Run presents a wide view of the motivations of each of the parties involved, and in the process shows that there is no clear line that can be drawn between the good guys and the bad guys. Everyone is involved in murky activity outside of accepted legal and moral laws, where good and bad are relative terms.

That makes Abbott's thriller a little bit more relevant than the Bourne films, taking the activities of the CIA, IRA terrorists and Arab militants and tying it into the current global climate of home security and lucrative business interests generated by war and terrorism. It's all held together by the author's terse, lean and dramatically dynamic prose, which wastes not a word or scene. At any point, you're never more than a page away from another major revelation or explosive situation. Brilliant.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars RUN.......to the greatest story ever!, 24 Aug 2008
I bought this book one month ago for a long flight to Japan in September. In the book store I really didn't know what book to buy and I have never heard of Jeff Abbott before. Then this silver shiny cover flashed out from the bookshelf. I read the first two pages and though this is it, the book I have always been waiting for.

I think The Bourne Identity is not even close as thrilling and exciting as this story about a man, who's life is about to change.
This increadible tension throughout the whole story chains you to the book and lets you read page after page without wanting to stop.
Listening to music (lounge,cafe del mare,...) while reading the book,makes you vanish into your own world of imagination. I though I was watching the newest thriller in a theater, but RUN gives you so much more than that.
The book's buildup is like a movie itself, seperated into different scenes, which at the end leads you to the one thing you will love most, wanting more of this story.
I already bought PANIC before I even finished RUN and I can't wait to get on that flight!
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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars run baby run......, 29 Aug 2008
i found this book in our hotel reception 3 weeks ago and it took 2 weeks to read it (bit busy on holiday). as i was reading it, it certainly made you feel as though you are running next to the character just to see what happens next...brilliant.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Worst book I've read in a long time
Complete lack of credibilities in the characters who have inconsistent personalities through the book. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Michael Louzado

4.0 out of 5 stars RUN.......to the greatest story ever!
I bought this book one month ago for a long flight to Japan in September. In the book store I really didn't know what book to buy and I have never heard of Jeff Abbott before... Read more
Published 6 months ago by Mrs. C. Fearon

3.0 out of 5 stars fast paced thriller
I find the author a bit of a mixed bag, have really enjoyed some of his stuff while finding some others rather tedious. Read more
Published 7 months ago by N. Brett

3.0 out of 5 stars For action addicts who miss Ludlum
Jeff Abbott attempts to get as many action sequences into this novel as is possible. The action never dips for a second and the reader is left breathless. Read more
Published 7 months ago by richard Brown

3.0 out of 5 stars Action with little depth
The rear cover understates the core of the plot here - there is more than the story of an ordinary guy running for his life. Read more
Published 10 months ago by johnverp

2.0 out of 5 stars Only passable
This is an OK book. Nothing more. Murder/thriller/chase - been done before - much better.
I am just finishing another Jeff Abbott book (PANIC) which is very similar in plot... Read more
Published 11 months ago by BookWriter

4.0 out of 5 stars thrills not shakespeare!
This book is what it says on the tin, a fabulous escape, a fanatstic adventure, chock full of excitement yes some cliche but occasionally a cliche is what is needed, the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. R. Thomas

1.0 out of 5 stars Probably the worst thrller
This is probably the worst thriller I've ever read. Ludicrous plot, no characterisation, predictable action. Worst of all - no tension at all. Read more
Published 13 months ago by W. J. Gilder

3.0 out of 5 stars One for the price of two
Just like Panic, this is fairly ordinary long-journey/ airport fodder. Just like Panic we start off with our implausibly perfect hero, who is unaware of his links to some shadowy... Read more
Published 14 months ago by Mr Smith

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