Douglas E Winter

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Douglas E Winter

Run

pbk 20 Apr 00

About the Author

Bibliography

British Pbk Original - Canongate (2000)

Run
A cache of guns
Two million dollars in bearer bonds
A gang of street thugs
A sociopathic killer
And the good soldier who's sent along for the ride…
Run is Douglas E. Winter's blistering debut, set in the ruthless, gun-running underworld of contemporary America. Welcome to the future of thriller writing.
‘Brilliantly conceived and executed… the sheer velocity of Douglas E. Winter's Run is breathtaking. An extraordinary achievement.’ Clive Barker
'Run doesn’t run, it flies. The style is terrific. What Winter does here is open a new school: how to write thrillers with a pace that takes your breath away.’ Elmore Leonard
‘The most stunning debut novel I've ever read. Superb in style, breathless in pace, Run should easily be thriller of the year, if not the decade… brilliant’ James Herbert
‘Winter has upped the ante for thriller writers everywhere… Run has the hard, shark-like sheen of a Richard Stark novel and the bullet-riddled kineticism of early John Woo. Plan to stay up half the night’ George P.Pelecanos
‘Run is simply one of the best novels of violence I've ever read. The language crackles off the page like a high-voltage power line struck by fork lightning and hits like a .45 dum-dum bullet. Douglas E. Winter doesn't put one foot wrong, and if he never writes another word he has carved himself out a niche with the finest crime writers of this or any other generation. No kidding, 1 really loved this one. Mark Timlin, Crime Critic, Independent on Sunday
‘Instantly - I mean from the first paragraph - Run's language jumps off the page and sears itself into the reader's consciousness. I opened the typescript at about 10.00 p.m. and found that I had to go on reading it until 3.00 in the morning, when I reached the final sentence. I don't think that has ever happened to me before. Original in every way, Run is a masterly redefinition of the crime thriller; one in which Douglas E. Winter has discovered a voice that seems to come up from his heels.’ Peter Straub
‘… an unsparing examination of a world on the edge of apocalypse. Run is an extraordinary debut, a visceral, endlessly fascinating look at a fractured, racially divided, rapidly unravelling society. With confidence, intelligence and great narrative authority, Douglas Winter subverts the conventions of the contemporary thriller, using the form to open a window on the condition of the American soul. The result is a novel that is not to be missed; that is unlike anything you are likely to encounter - inside the genre or out of it - for a very long time to come.’ Bill Sheehan, bomesandnoble.com

About The Author
Douglas E. Winter is a lawyer specialising in air disasters. He is a member of the National Book Critics' Circle and editor of Prime Evil, a best-selling anthology of horror and suspense fiction. Run is his first novel.

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

Run (Canongate Pbk, 2000) Pbk Apr 00

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