Runner

Sam Dryden, retired special forces, lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night, a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified, she's running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goal—to kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers, he learns that the eleven year old, for as long as she can remember, has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesn't know much beyond her own name, Rachel. She only remembers the past two months of her life—and that she has a skill that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge.

Dryden, who lost his wife and young daughter in an accident five years ago, agrees to help her try to unravel her own past and make sense of it, to protect her from the people who are moving heaven and earth to find them both. Although Dryden is only one man, he's a man with the extraordinary skills and experience—as a Ranger, a Delta, and five years doing off-the-book black ops with an elite team. But, as he slowly begins to discover, the highly trained paramilitary forces on their heels is the only part of the danger they must face. Will Rachel's own unremembered past be the most deadly of them all.

This book grabs you right from the beginning and the action and suspense keep up right to the end.  Rachel's memory slowly comes back which helps with the tension as well as hoping they outsmart those that are after them. This was my first Patrick Lee novel and definitely will not be my last. I look forward to the next Sam Dryden novel.   

Author: Patrick Lee
Published: February 2014
Pages: 336
Genre:  Suspense/Thriller/Series
Source:  NetGalley/St. Martin's Press
Finished: 1/25/14



This complimentary review copy was received thankfully from St. Martin's Press and NetGalley and in no way influenced my review of this book. These are my personal thoughts and reactions to the reading of the book.