E-book
Run
Record details
- ISBN: 9780375411625 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0375411623 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 online resource (259 p.) - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2000.
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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Illegal arms transfers -- Fiction Illegal arms transfers |
| Genre: | Adventure fiction. Electronic books. Fiction. |
Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Gunrunner Burdon Lane's weekend shipment is in danger from federal agents who have infiltrated his organization and insiders bent on taking over. A first novel. 50,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
The buyers find us. Establish their bona fides.
Then, and only then, we run.
Burdon Lane is a businessman living out the American Dream in a shiny suburb of Washington, D.C. His business card lists him as Executive VP of UniArms, Inc., a legitimate arms dealer that's a front for a gunrunning empire. His girlfriend thinks he's a salesman. His best friend thinks he's a role model. His boss thinks he's a good soldier.
This weekend's run should be business as usual -- guns for money, money for guns -- moving the product north on the Iron Highway from Dirty City to Manhattan. But this weekend is going to teach Burdon something he doesn't yet know about who he is . . . and isn't. When the meet in Manhattan turns into a five-alarm fire and an all-out war on the tenth floor of a New York hotel, there is only one way out: an uneasy alliance with a hard case named Jinx and the street gang known as the U Street Crew. And once the heat is on, with a cadre of killers and every police officer and Federal agent on the eastern seaboard on their tail, Burdon gets the chilling sensation that, one way or another, this so-called milk run may be his last.
This is the story of the last run, the run where no one -- criminal, cop, or civilian -- is who or what they seem.
Douglas E. Winter's debut novel blasts into the dark heart of America's culture of guns and violence with breathtaking velocity. Run is a streamlined tour de force of full-throttle action and high-tech weaponry, a brilliantly controlled ride through America's most brutal terrain, with a surprising moral message -- fantastically harrowing, relentlessly cinematic, impossible to look away from.
