Runner
β Scribed by Carl Deuker
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
When a new job falls his way, Chance jumps at the opportunity, becoming a runner who picks up strange packages on a daily route and delivers them to a shady man at the marina. Chase knows how much he will earnβwhat he doesn't know is how much he will pay.
Suspenseful, fast-paced, and timely, this novel avoids easy answers as it examines issues of terrorism and patriotism, fear and courage, and lives of privilege and poverty.
This edition includes a Q and A with author Carl Deuker.
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