The Runner

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Summary: I COULD NOT PUT THIS BOOK DOWN
Review: I GOT MY COPY OF THE RUNNER YESTERDAY AND JUST FINISHED READING IT THIS MORNING. IT WAS AN EXCELLENT READ, FAST PACED YET INTRICATE PLOT WITH GREAT CHARACTERS. I WAS HAPPY THAT THE MAIN FEMALE CHARACTER WAS NOT JUST ANOTHER DAMSEL IN DISTRESS. LOVED THE USE OF HISTORICAL FIGURES WHICH LEAD THE STORY MORE CREDIBILITY AND CAME AWAY WITH A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE TIME BETWEEN THE END OF WWII AND THE BEGINNING OF THE COLD WAR. BRAVO REICH - WISH I HADN'T READ IT SO QUICKLY - IT'LL BE TOUGH TO FIND SOMETHING THIS GOOD AGAIN!

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Summary: "THE RUNNER" AGAIN PROVES THE RISE OF THIS REICH
Review: HAVING BEEN FIRST INTRODUCED TO THIS AWESOME TALENT BY HIS BREAKTHROUGH THRLLER, "NUMBERED ACCOUNT", I EAGERLY AWAITED SOMETHING - ANYTHING NEW FROM THIS MODERN MASTER. "THE RUNNER" DOES NOT DISAPPOINT. ONCE AGAIN THE CHARACTERS ARE VIVID, THE WORLD SO REAL YOU CAN SMELL IT, AND THE PLOT WORTHY OF HIS SPIRITUAL FATHER, LE CARRE. I DON'T WANT TO GIVE AWAY ANY OF THE STORY, BUT TRUST ME YOU WILL READ IT IN ONE SITTING. I DEFY YOU TO PUT THIS BOOK DOWN.

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Summary: THE RUNNER is right up there with EYE OF THE NEEDLE
Review: The Runner is right up there with my all-time favorite international thrillers: Eye of the Needle, Day of the Jackal and The Eagle has Landed.

My thanks to Christopher Reich for writing a suspense novel that is both extraordinarily exciting and intelligent. His book made me remember just how great a great thriller can be.

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Summary: Conspiracies Abound
Review: Now I like a super hero as much as anyone. But I like him to be believable.. I think the character of Devlin Judge moves beyond reality. Much more realistic to me is the character of his foe, the German officer Erich Seyss. This novel is a reasonably good read. But.I think, not compelling.

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Summary: A first-rate thriller
Review: This novel is first-rate. Reich spins a captivating tale of a German Olympic runner and a New York detective caught up in a web of intrigue and revenge in the period immediately following the fall of Germanay and the end of the Second World War. Devlin Judge is part of an international tribunal to try Nazi war criminals. He sets out to capture Eric Seyss who has escaped from a POW camp. But Seyss, a former Olympic sprinter, has one last mission to accomplish for the Fatherland. This mission is part of a conspiracy that reaches into the upper echelons of the American army.

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Summary: Fast and sleek
Review: Christopher Reich has written a sleek, high-octane thriller with a wonderful historical backdrop. Unfolding amidst the shattered ruins of Europe in the immediate wake of World War II, "The Runner" tells the story of Devlin Judge, an American lawyer working the Nuremberg trial who goes on a vendetta to hunt down the escaped Nazi war criminal who murdered his brother.

Judge's personal quest is just part of the story as he gradually unravels a sinister plot that will undoubtedly plunge the world into a third global conflict. Some of history's biggest players make an appearance in the book: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. General George S. Patton is a central figure in the story... and a shady one at that.

The pace is steady and the narrartive solid. In the tradition of "Numbered Account," Reich has penned a "thinking man's" thriller. His protagonists are real people; not action hero cardboard cutouts. Reich is proving himself a suspense writer of the top order.