The Runner: The heart-stopping thriller from bestselling author of the Dan 'Spider' Shepherd series

by Stephen Leather

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***'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 . . .

  • ISBN10 1529345154
  • ISBN13 9781529345155
  • Publish Date 23 January 2020
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Hodder & Stoughton
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 336
  • Language English