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Run (2000)

door Douglas E. Winter

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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.Runis 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.    … (meer)
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It's been a long time since I read this, but I recall it fit the bill at the time. I wanted a quick, beach-read, type of book. The action is very fast-paced. Think of the Crank movie series ( )
  RalphLagana | Jan 23, 2016 |
Oh God this was bad. Very pretentious. ( )
  jj2006 | Oct 27, 2006 |
This was pretty fast paced and the writer has a unique voice. For example: “that’s what he’s really saying to me through a night’s worth of cigarette smoke, drugstore aftershave, gutter rock guitar and the cheap talk of the Dauphine steak house, and that is when I hear the cough. It’s a nasty cough, the kind of cough that sort of stands right up and says: I’m a Glock.”

The book was so filled with gun references that I couldn’t run them all by Ken. Only one that I didn’t recognize at all, he said was bogus. Some dream piece.

It was written in present tense also and it’s kind of strange at first. There was a tad more violence than I thought might be necessary, like the wedding that turned out to be a literal bloodbath. And there were a few times where I thought that it was just nuts that Lane lived. Especially at the beginning when he first cottoned on to the set up and had to get out. But all in all, it was fiction and pretty enjoyable. ( )
  Bookmarque | Jul 26, 2006 |
This was a really good novel that started out one way, and ended a way that was very, very satisfactory. ( )
  cainmark | Sep 9, 2005 |
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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.Runis 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.    

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