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Run for Your Life (Michael Bennett) (Paperback)

by James Patterson (Author), Michael Ledwidge (Author)
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

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  • Paperback: 416 pages
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; 1 edition (20 Oct 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 044656267X
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446562676
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 13.2 x 3 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

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Detective Michael Bennett is back and the race is on to catch a deadly killer terrorising New York. The Teacher has a meticulous and calculated plan. Cold-hearted and cunning, no one knows who he is or where he came from. Until now. Now it is time for everyone to learn his name as he teaches New York a lesson it will never forget. Intent on exacting revenge and causing mass hysteria, he embarks on the worst killing spree the city has ever seen. The whole New York Police Department is tested to its limits, none more so than Detective Michael Bennett. As the Teacher leads him on a terrifying chase, Bennett follows in his tracks but just as he seems to be on the brink of a breakthrough, he is pulled deeper and deeper into an unfolding terror. The killer has one more victim in his sights and it brings Bennett's investigation frighteningly close to home. With only one man standing in his way, how far will the Teacher go to complete what he set out to do? And at what price? --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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First came Alex Cross.

Then the Womens Murder Club.

Meet Detective Michael Bennett, NYPD.
Detective Michael Bennett is back and the race is on to catch a deadly killer terrorising New York.
The Teacher has a meticulous and calculated plan. Cold-hear
--This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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49 of 55 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Patterson's best for years!, 4 Feb 2009
By KM (England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Run for Your Life (Hardcover)
In `Run For Your Life' Mike Bennett returns in the second book in the series (following on from Step on a Crack) and this time he is up against a ruthless killer known as The Teacher who is murdering rich and obnoxious people, seemingly at random, to teach them a lesson.

I'd pretty much given up on reading anything other than Patterson's Alex Cross series lately as nearly every book he has written (or at least put his name on!) has been nothing more than average, if that. A friend of mine lent me this book and so I gave it a read and I have since bought it to add to my collection as it is probably the best book he has written since the classics Along Came a Spider and Kiss the Girls!!

From the first word to the last it is literally non-stop action and thrills that had me glued to the page as it was just so exciting and suspenseful, with so many twists that you'd never seen coming and probably the best killer in a Patterson book since Gary Sonjei. Bennett is a fantastic new character that I think with a few more books behind him could turn out to actually be as good as Cross, which I feel has been dragged out a little too long now, to be honest.

Overall whether you're a fan of Patterson books or not, you simply have to read this book! It's without a doubt one of the best thrillers I've read for a long time and is definitely Patterson's best in years. Highly recommended if you need your faith in James Patterson being a top writer to be restored.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars cardboard characters and lightweight plot, 11 Dec 2009
By N. Brett (Wiltshire, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Run For Your Life (Paperback)
I must take some of the blame here. Just look at the cover where the "James Patterson" is splashed larger then the book title, and then, almost hidden within the colours of the cover, is the name of the real author, Michael Ledwidge. I can't imagine Patterson got anywhere near this book, and it is yet another lazy attempt by publishers to con readers into thinking A list asuthors have produced a new book. Clive Cussler, Robert Ludlum, Tom Clancy, they are all at it, and it is a rip off. And I was half expecting it to be poor and was sadly proved to be right. but like I said I must therefore take some of the blame.
This is a lightweight thriller where we have a detective caricature (widowed, kids, weary but dedicated etc etc) against a clever psycho who is on a killing spree. Easy and effortless reading that you will forget within five minutes of the final page with very little to lift it from the below average. Some relentless and irritating product placement also detracted from any potential enjoyment but it would have taken a lot to make this anything like an enjoyable thriller.
One to avoid. And shame on you Patterson for selling out your name association.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Very very disappointed, 15 Jan 2010
By Paul Marsh "Purbeckfossil" (UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Run For Your Life (Paperback)
I bought this book as Patterson was suggested as a cross-sell from Wilbur Smith. What a lot of EMPTY book both story-wise and content-wise. The book is 383 pages long, it has 90 chapters averaging 4 pages a piece. Each chapter starts half-way down a page. The font size is big. After 190 pages I got so bored I did an anorak thing and went back to estimate the blank pages - result 41 out of 190 - Ridiculous - and even totally blank pages are included in the numbering. To add insult to injury, the last 14 pages are actually marketing for his next book - What a con!(I reckon the book would condense to about 200 -240 pages max.) Some people may like a quick read but I just feel that Patterson is not up there at all with the good thriller writers - I won't be reading any more.
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1.0 out of 5 stars POOR PATTERSON
What a incredibly bad book. "Run For Your Life" has a distinctly make weight plot. The characters are irritatingly stereotypical that appear to be copied from a strait to DVD... Read more
Published 15 days ago by Tom Price-Daniel

4.0 out of 5 stars Patterson's Latest Hero
These days James Patterson often gets a lot of flack for either not writing his own books, churning them out one after the other or that his format has become tired. Read more
Published 26 days ago by D. Graham

4.0 out of 5 stars A fast paced read - no effort required!
A really good read - would recommend to any Patterson fan. Most deffinately better than the latest couple of books from the Alex Cross series. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ms. Jenny A. Peake

3.0 out of 5 stars Teach Patterson a lesson
The Teacher says... "Patterson- you obviously suffer from attention deficit disorder as you make chapters as short as paragraphs. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Clive

5.0 out of 5 stars As good as Cross...
Okay, I admit it, I am addicted to Alex Cross (why don't Hollywood make more Alex Cross movies?) and I always have reservations about Pattersons new characters, but not this time... Read more
Published 7 months ago by playmistyforme

5.0 out of 5 stars Alex Cross at its best.
This was another fabulous episode in the alex Cross detective novels, kept you in suspense right through the book. Also the charaters were their usual fantastic selves.
Published 8 months ago by Ann Marie Mccarthy

4.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't put down
I liked the first in the Michael Bennett series, Step on a Crack, but it wasn't great. This I found to be an improvement. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Claire Mill

1.0 out of 5 stars What a pity
After the quite promising 'Step on a Crack', this unwise sequel represents a return for Team Patterson to woeful recent form. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Ray Blake

5.0 out of 5 stars RUN FOR YOUR LIFE
UN-PUT-DOWNABLE, PATTERSON BACK TO HIS PACY BEST, GRABS THE ATTENTION FROM PAGE ONE THROUGH TO THE CLIMAX
Published 9 months ago by Mr. A. J. Wheaton

1.0 out of 5 stars worst book I've ever ever ever had the displeasure to read
Patterson - if he even wrote this (if he did he should be ashamed and if he didn't he shouldn't put his name to such drivel) needs to know this is not accetable. Read more
Published 10 months ago by Deeply Dissapointed

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