Dead Run

by Leo Atkins and Annabeth Albert

Penzler Pick, January 2001: Creating a character who works to right wrongdoing below the Mason-Dixon Line--in places where everyone's related and where the ugliest skeletons can never be buried deep... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425177777
• ISBN13: 9780425177778
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 277 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Good Characters, Too Much Dead

Having read the three books openly written by Clay Harvey, I find this book also by Harvey, under the pseudonym of Leo Atkins, to be one with good character development, plenty of humor and action, but with too much killing. There are too many innocent victims killed, and Harvey (Atkins) comes a little too close to treating these killings with little regret or as a ploy to get the reader to want the bad guys killed with a vengeance, or possibly a little of both. Clay Harvey's strengths for believable characters (including the bad guys), catchy humor, seeing things in an adult world through the eyes of a child, and action scenes in writing you can actually visualize all come in this book. The book has some surprises in events and character interaction within the plot which makes the book interesting. One of the surprises in the plot has the girlfriend getting more attention than and stealing scenes from the hero.Even though the book is short, the reader is drawn into it because of the sometimes unusual and very human interaction between characters - sometimes between the good guys and the bad guys, and there are even some not so good guys. This is both refreshing and interesting. I have added this to my collection of Clay Harvey books, and am glad he is still writing. I enjoyed this book, and plan to also purchase "Play Dead" and "Dead Beat" by Leo Atkins.