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The Runner
- Author
- Stephen Leather
- Narrator
- Laura Kirman
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publish Date
- 23 January 2020
- Run Time
- 9 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
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
Critics Review
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Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style
Financial Times
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Entertains and whisks the reader along at a breath-taking pace
Shots Magazine
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Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series
Irish Independent
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The conclusion is as high-powered and explosive as I've come to expect from Leather, and this is another compelling military-grade thriller with characters both old and new
Crime Review
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A cracking Leather standalone . . . It left me breathless!
Peterborough Telegraph
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Details
- Author
- Stephen Leather
- Narrator
- Laura Kirman
- Duration
- 9 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 23 January 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529345186
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Genre
- Crime and / or mystery fiction, Thriller / suspense fiction, Espionage and spy thriller, Terrorism, armed struggle
Synopsis
The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd seriesSally 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
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