Run
By: by Douglas E. Winter.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 259
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.