num_pages: 328
description: Sam Dryden retired special forces lives a quiet life in a small town on the coast of Southern California. While out on a run in the middle of the night a young girl runs into him on the seaside boardwalk. Barefoot and terrified shes running from a group of heavily armed men with one clear goalto kill the fleeing child. After Dryden helps her evade her pursuers he learns that the eleven year old for as long as she can remember has been kept in a secret prison by forces within the government. But she doesnt know much beyond her own name Rachel. She only remembers the past two months of her lifeand that she has a skill that makes her very dangerous to these men and the hidden men in charge.Dryden who lost his wife and young daughter in an accident five years ago agrees to help her try to unravel her own past and make sense of it to protect her from the people who are moving heaven and earth to find them both. Although Dryden is only one man hes a man with the extraordinary skills and experienceas a Ranger a Delta and five years doing off-the-book black ops with an elite team. But as he slowly begins to discover the highly trained paramilitary forces on their heels is the only part of the danger they must face. Will Rachels own unremembered past be the most deadly of them all?
language: English
title: Runner
publisher: Minotaur Books