The Runner
On sale
23rd January 2020
Price: £16.99
Genre
***’Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style’ – Financial Times***
***’Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series’ – Irish Independent***
The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series
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 coffee leaving 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 . . .
***’Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series’ – Irish Independent***
The explosive new stand-alone thriller from the author of the Spider Shepherd series
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 coffee leaving 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 . . .
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Reviews
Entertains and whisks the reader along at a breath-taking pace
Thought-provoking, high-octane chase thriller with style
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
Leather once again delivers high-octane thrill-a-minute action that reads like a pitch for a Netflix series
A cracking Leather standalone . . . It left me breathless!