The Runner
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3.8 • 20 Ratings
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- £9.99
Publisher Description
The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series
Sally Page is an MI5 'footie', a junior Secret Service Agent who maintains 'legends': fake identities or footprints used by real spies. Her day consists of maintaining flats and houses where the legends allegedly live, doing online shopping, using payment, loyalty and travel cards and going on social media in their names - anything to give the impression to hostile surveillance that the legends are living, breathing individuals.
One day she goes out for a coffee run from the safe house from which she and her fellow footies operate. When she comes back they have all been murdered and she barely escapes with her own life. She is on the run: but from whom she has no idea. Worse, her bosses at MI5 seem powerless to help her. To live, she will have to use all the lies and false identities she has so carefully created while discovering the truth . . .
(p) 2020 Isis Publishing Ltd
Customer Reviews
Will not disappoint.
Huge fan of Stephen Leather and this book will not disappoint but a heads-up for anyone who listens to audiobooks whilst commuting. A combination of the tone of the narrator and the recording volume means that if you listen whilst commuting and have background noise there are entire parts of the story that are almost inaudible. I listen whilst cycling and despite good in-ear headphones and having my player (ipod nano) on the loudest setting there were parts that I could not make out - especially whilst being passed by heavy traffic. Not the narrators fault - more a fault of the recording. I commute 80 minutes a day and usually listen to a book a week so this isn’t my first rodeo.
The runner
Bring back Paul thornley - sorry poor narrator putting on silly voices
- the story may be better if it had a different narrative!!