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    Audiobook (abridged)6 hours

    The Runner

    Written by Christopher Reich

    Narrated by Stephen Lang

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    Rarely has a first novel achieved the kind of breathtaking critical acclaim garnered by Numbered Account, hailed by The New York Times as "smart," "sophisticated," and "wonderful." With The Runner, Reich dazzles us once again. Set against the seething backdrop of post-World War II Germany, The Runner weaves a complex and intricately plotted tale of cat and mouse.

    At the center of this fiercely compelling story is Devlin Judge, an American lawyer in Europe as part of the International Military Tribunal to try Nazi war criminals. Haunted by his own demons, Judge has a secret agenda--to find Erich Seyss, the Nazi responsible for his brother's death. An elite member of Hilter's SS and former Olympic sprinter known as "The White Lion," Seyss has just escaped from an American P.O.W. camp. Determined to avenge his brother and bring Seyss to justice, Judge is plunged into immediate pursuit, menaced at every turn by forces determined to keep him from his prey. Threatened from all sides, he'll enlist the help of Ingrid Bach, the beautiful daughter of one of the most powerful men in Nazi Germany . . . and Seyss's former fiancée.

    To track Seyss through the chaos of a destroyed nation, Judge will pay the ultimate price, putting his life on the line to reveal the dark conspiracy surrounding him. For as the hunter becomes the hunted, the chase for the White Lion becomes nothing less than a race to save the future of Europe itself.

    Unfailingly gripping, rich in historical detail and brilliantly atmospheric, The Runner is a no-holds-barred powerhouse of a novel--a true masterwork from one of the most original storytellers to enrich the modern suspense novel.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateJan 8, 2008
    ISBN9780739329320
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    3.5/5

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    • 3/5
      A fun bit of alt-history, but too many coincidences needed to make the plot work. Outstanding characterization, and quite outstanding narration. The main characters remained unresolved - we found out a lot about who they were, and how the story impacted them. I wish we could have found out who they bacame.
    • 4/5
      Set after the collapse of Germany, The Runner is basically a ww2 era detective story.An SS prisoner held for war crimes escapes aided by a shadowy group. An ex-policeman now military lawyer seeks retribution for his dead brother whilst aforementioned shadowy group tries to advance a conspiracy to protect their own interests within the newly forming framework of post nazi Germany.It's not terrible, however nor is it particularly outstanding in any particular way.
    • 2/5
      Not that great. His later books are much better. The characters were not all that interesting and the historical context was weak.It also annoyed me that the map in the flyleaf didn't have half the locations the characters traveled thru making the map a tease rather than a useful help in understanding the flow of the story.
    • 3/5
      A thriller about a US GI's search for a German SS officer who escaped from a POW camp after WWII. The ending is pretty predictable.Spoiler alert...The book makes the accusation that George Patton attempted to have Truman, Churchill and Stalin assassinated at Potsdam after the war. I guess this is fiction, so one should not take it too seriously.
    • 4/5
      Quite an exciting thriller set in immediate post-war Germany. The wreched state of Berlin and the German people in general is well described. I did find some of the plot twists rather unbelievable and none of the characters truly likeable, though.
    • 4/5
      Growing up during the Cold War I had heard a number of times that the best thing the US could have done at the end of World War II would have been for the US Army to march on past Berlin and go all the way to Moscow, defeating both our wartime enemy and our ally-cum-adversary all in one fell swoop. Fleshing out this hypothetical possibility is the motif for Christopher Reich’s post-war thriller, The Runner.Reich creates characters, some directly from history and others as fictional composites, and situations both real and hypothetical, and weaves them together in a compelling story. The key characters are a Nazi villain, a reluctant American hero and a woman with multiple forces pulling at her. There are many lesser characters, whose loyalties and motives are rarely as they first appear. The action is fast and seldom predictable. As a needed diversion from my usual reading, which is nearly all non-fiction, I thoroughly enjoyed this book.