Review of Douglas E. Winter’s Thrilling Novel, Run Essay -- Run

Review of Douglas E. Winters Thrilling Novel, Run If youre in the market for a good thriller, the kind that you dont put down, the kind that releases its grip on you once its through, look no further. Run grabbed my attention with its opening sentence and I found myself slip into that helpless, blissful state of complete submission to the book, confident I was in the hands of a master storyteller. I chose to review this book primarily because none of my friends had heard of it, despite its New York Times-bestseller status and cover, which is decorated with blurbs from literary illuminati as they gasp for superlatives in attempts to describe the storys pace, which is breathless, to be sure. This is Winters debut novel (having previously collaborated with Clive Barker), and we are in the presence of an exciting new talent. The novel is told from the first-person perspective of Burdon Lane, an arms dealer of the less-than-legal variety, who finds himself in a pu re noir predicament where the only person he can trust is himself, and only then ...