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This book is longlisted for the 2015 CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger award for best thriller. Runner is a pulse-pounding, A-grade adventure thriller from acclaimed author Patrick Lee. Sam Dryden was done being a hero. But when, acting on instinct, he hides a terrified young girl from a group of well-armed pursuers, his fate is sealed. Eleven-year-old Rachel cant remember much, but she knows she was imprisoned by the men trying to kill her. And that she is important to them. In Dryden, though, Rachel has found the perfect protector. An ex-soldier with the kind of elite military career hes not at liberty to talk about, Drydens a man well versed in secrets, and driven to do whats right. But hunted and on the run, its only as Rachels memory returns that Dryden begins to fully appreciate the scale of the dangers they face.



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Patrick Lee

Patrick Lee lives in Michigan. He is the author of three novels: The Breach, Ghost Country, and Deep Sky.



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