The Running Game
LE Fitzpatrick
Her father called it the running game. Count the exits, calculate the routes. Always be ready to run because they'll always be coming for you. Whatever happens, they'll always be coming for you.
Rachel had let her guard down and they had found her. She could run now, leave the city and try her luck beyond the borders, but with no money and a dark secret to hide her chances of survival are slim.
But then she meets two brothers with a dangerous past and secrets of their own. Can they help her turn the game around?
This is the first installment of the Reacher series. Set in a grim and not too distant future, this urban thriller will keep you hooked until the last page.
This books sounds so unique and exciting, I can't wait to share it with you! Today we have an introduction to the Reachers through Rachel's perspective. It's pretty darn cool! Hope you like it!
At six o'clock every night they post the
same infomercial. That same blurred video of a teenage boy walking through
Piccadilly Station more than a decade ago. He has a brand new bag on his back,
bulging with menace. The people around him, regular commuters trying to get to
work, stop as he passes them. They turn, transfixed and follow him as he leads
them deeper onto the platform. The image pauses: one young boy and fifty
innocent people, blown to pieces. He was a Reacher and that one act of terrorism
condemned every man and woman like him to death.
The infomercial always finishes with the
warning: Look out for suspicious,
paranormal activity - report any irregularities to the authorities - it could
be your neighbour, your colleagues - remain vigilant and we will win this war.
The Piccadilly bomber is the only known
Reacher to have ever launched an attack on London
Suspicious,
paranormal activity - what the hell does that even
mean? Is there any paranormal activity that isn't suspicious? So what can I do?
What separates me from you? Well I can read your Mind. In a single kiss I can
uncover your darkest secrets and take over your thoughts. Imagine what I could
to you. Imagine what I could do for you.
They'll tell you that I'm a threat to
society. But I'm a doctor, I work twelve hour shifts, six days a week, keeping
people alive. I live on the eleventh floor, of a twenty storey concrete building,
in a one room apartment with no hot water. I've been under the radar now for
seven years. Seven long, hard years. But now it's time to run.
The government wants me dead. And there are
others who want to take me alive to use my powers for their own gain, just like
they did with my sister. But I won't be anybody's slave and I won't be a lab
rat for the Institute.
Dad used to call it The Running Game, he
taught it to us before he was killed. Always be ready, that's what he said. And
I have been. So I'm going to run, like I have before. But this time I won't be
doing it alone.
They'll tell you I'm a threat to society
and with the Smith brothers I am. Together we're unstoppable. Look out for suspicious, paranormal
activity. My name is Rachel Aaron and I know your deepest, darkest secrets.
L E Fitzpatrick was born in Hull, East Yorkshire, but now lives in West Wales, with her family plus lots of dogs and cats. She manages an office, volunteers as a room steward for the National Trust and also supports independent authors as a proofreader and beta reader. She obviously has no spare time because of this, but if she did it would probably be invested in walking in the countryside and enjoying the peace and quiet.
L E Fitzpatrick published her first series Dark Waters in 2011 and is currently working on her Reacher series.
L E Fitzpatrick published her first series Dark Waters in 2011 and is currently working on her Reacher series.
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