The Runner: The heart-stopping thriller from bestselling author of the Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series

Name: The Runner: The heart-stopping thriller from bestselling author of the Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series
Rating: 4.388888835906982 (54 reviews)

Stephen Leather

Jan 2020 · Hachette UK

4.4

54 reviews

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***'Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style' - Financial Times***

***'Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series' - Irish Independent***

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 coffee leaving 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 . . .

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4.4

54 reviews

Roslyn Holman

February 16, 2020

Bought the book on a whim and loved it. An author I have not read before. Main character is a woman, who survives and thrives against all odds, which is a change to a lot of books by male authors. Would definitely be interested in reading more by this author.

8 people found this review helpful

Derek Green

February 19, 2020

This, like all Stephen Leather books, grips you from the first paragraph. Always well researched and a "sensible" ending with no unbelievable elements. Loved it

2 people found this review helpful

Malcolm Blair

January 27, 2020

I am not reading this series in book order. This is a prequel to the Dan Shepherd series. It allows you to meet some main characters from the series. Expect a simple (you can work out the story in a few chapters) but interesting story. It ends with a fast paced filmy type action sequence. A fun read if you have or want to read the series.

12 people found this review helpful

About the author

Stephen Leather is one of the UK's most successful thriller writers, an ebook and Sunday Times bestseller and author of the critically acclaimed Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series and the Jack Nightingale supernatural detective novels. Before becoming a novelist he was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mirror, the Glasgow Herald, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. He is one of the country's most successful ebook authors and his titles have topped the Amazon Kindle charts in the UK and the US. His bestsellers have been translated into fifteen languages and he has also written for television. You can learn more from Stephen's website, www.stephenleather.com, and find him on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/stephenleatherofficial/. Stephen also has a website for his Spider Shepherd series, www.danspidershepherd.com, and for his Jack Nightingale series, www.jacknightingale.com.

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