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Ken Howard
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Stuart Woods
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The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous and deadly than Will and his wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine. A decent, courageous, and principled man, Will soon learns he has more than one opponent with whom he must contend. Thrust into the national spotlight as never before, he becomes the target of clandestine forces from the past who will use all their money and influence to stop him dead in his tracks. Now Will isn't just running for president...he's running for his life.
Filled with all the suspense and roller-coaster plot twists that have become Stuart Wood's trademark, The Run is this master storyteller at his best.
©2000 Stuart Woods (P)2000 HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.Listeners also enjoyed...
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Bad. Just bad. Disappointed.
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Chuck Chandler has choked on more than one occasion - first as a pro tennis player at Wimbledon, then as a womanizing coach at posh tennis clubs around the country. Now at Key West's Old Racquet Club, Chuck gets involved with the wrong married woman - the enticing Clare Carras, married to an enigmatic older man - and soon he is in way over his head.
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Not for me : two stars ..
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Like the new character - a bit anti-climatic
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First there were roses and the notes in her mailbox signed simply, "Admirer". Then the accident. One minute Chris Callaway was one of Hollywood's brightest rising stars, starting a new picture that could send her career skyrocketing; the next she was falling from the unfinished deck of her beautiful new Malibu beach house...waking up blind, uncertain whether she would ever see again.
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Great
- By Richard Bell on 05-08-16
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Palindrome
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Award-winning author Stuart Woods has crafted a masterful novel no reader will soon forget. For years, Liz Barwick has been battered by her brutal husband, a famous pro football player. The beautiful and talented photographer retreats to an island paradise off Georgia’s coast to find solitude - and herself.
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Fantastic Story
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Barely Legal
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Under the tutelage of Stone Barrington, Herbie Fisher has transformed from a bumbling sad sack into a capable man about town and the youngest partner at the white-shoe law firm Woodman & Weld. Now all of his training will be put to the test as he finds himself embroiled in his most daring adventure to date.
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Barely legal
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L.A. Times
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After turning a film student's directorial debut into a hit movie, New York mobster and movie fanatic Vinnie Callabrese takes off for the bright lights of Hollywood, where he begins a new life as Michael Vincent, producer. A natural-born wheeler-dealer, he lands not only a major studio deal but also a gorgeous actress girlfriend.
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Get Shorty Meets Godfather - Annoyingly
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Under the Lake
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Stuart Woods, the best-selling author of L.A. Times and Heat, has created a haunting thriller full of ghostly images, murder and old family secrets. Part detective story, part ghost story, part Southern gothic - this absorbing novel will fascinate listeners as a small town’s present, past and future converge.
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You like the mystical? Maybe this is for you.
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White Cargo
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New York Times best-selling author Stuart Woods is hailed as a master of the modern thriller. With books including Chiefs and Worst Fears Realized, he has attracted millions of fans who relish their non-stop suspense and danger.
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Excellent story once again Mr. Woods aces it!!!!
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An Extravagant Life
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Over the last 40 years, Stuart Woods has written more than 90 novels of suspense and intrigue, beginning with the award-winning Chiefs. Featuring iconic crime-fighting and jet-setting leads, the plots are masterfully conceived and wonderfully escapist. What many readers and listeners don’t know is that Woods' very own life was filled with similar stories of adventure.
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Stuart Wood’ autobiography
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The Investigator
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By age twenty-four, Letty Davenport has seen more action and uncovered more secrets than many law enforcement professionals. Now a recent Stanford grad with a master’s in economics, she’s restless and bored in a desk job for U.S. Senator Colles. Letty’s ready to quit, but her skills have impressed Colles, and he offers her a carrot: feet-on-the-ground investigative work, in conjunction with the Department of Homeland Security.
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Just….NO
- By WithoutaMark on 04-14-22
By: John Sandford
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Angels and Demons
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World-renowned Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to a Swiss research facility to analyze a cryptic symbol seared into the chest of a murdered physicist. What he discovers is unimaginable: a deadly vendetta against the Catholic Church by a centuries-old underground organization, the Illuminati. Desperate to save the Vatican from a powerful time bomb, Langdon joins forces in Rome with the beautiful and mysterious scientist Vittoria Vetra.
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A must for fans of The Da Vinci Code
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- Barbara
- 07-07-21
A great treat
The run is a great listen and brings to life the power struggles of Washington ptesidential politics.
A great listen
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- Ginny
- 01-30-20
Will Lee Series - always a good read
Ken Howard is an excellent narrator and brings these stories alive.
Stuart Woods is an amazing writer who always delivers a twisting tale with surprises along the trail. He is one of the few writers that I can’t figure out the ending midway thru the story.
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- linda Pearce
- 08-10-22
One of Woods’ best!
This was clearly one of Stuart Woods’ best books that I have read. It has well defined characters (thanks to preceding novels about Will and Kate) and a very interesting drama of a close Presidential race. It also does not include so much of the casual sex that defines many of the Stone Barrington novels. The only problem is that it represents the Democrats in an undeserving positive light…..thus ignoring the pervasive corruption of this political party. Don Pearce
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- Tnafbrat
- 06-04-12
Great Series
Would you listen to The Run again? Why?
Yes, I actually did because I diid not get the first few in tis series in order, and I went back to re-listen in order
What other book might you compare The Run to and why?
Some of it makes me think of one of the earlier Jack Ryan novels by Clancy. The political game, without the international spy thriller part.
Which scene was your favorite?
Not so much a scene, but Ken Howard's southern gentleman accent reminded me so much of my uncles.
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- Debra
- 10-23-15
i really enjoyed this story!
will lee isa very likeable character. the story moves fast ! all the pieces fit well together and you can keep up with the characters. i recommend these books for easy listening with no gore or to much smut.
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- Jon
- 03-29-16
A little corny
I enjoyed the book as I have the rest in the series but it became very predictable and corny. Certainly would consider it "light" reading
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- Penny
- 08-20-12
Another winner!
What did you love best about The Run?
The twists and turns of the plot.
What other book might you compare The Run to and why?
The Hour Game by David Baldacci. While The Hour Game is more complex than The Run, The Run is a fun book to listen to. It is full of excitement and unexpected twists!
Which scene was your favorite?
When Will and Kate go to bed after loosing the election and get up the next morning........
Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
Yes!!!
Any additional comments?
All of Stuart Woods' books are a great escape, but the Will Lee series is Stuart Woods at his best.
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- lou
- 02-21-16
Good Read
I listen to audiobooks all the time. I am particularly partial to the Will Lee
family and stories. I have enjoyed following the same characters through all the books.
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- Julie
- 01-29-16
Narrator unbearable
Good story but I almost stopped listening. Ken Howard hard to listen to. Sentence endings grinding on my nerves.
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- Richard Delman
- 06-25-13
Kinda predictable Stuart Woods. There is a bonus.
Stuart Woods began the saga of Will Lee in his first book, Chiefs, which is, IMHO, way better than The Run. By the time of this book Mr. Woods had been cranking these out at a really fast pace, and the relationship between quality and quantity is inverse, if I may be slightly obtuse. Mr. Woods knows how to tie the maiden to the railroad tracks, and start the train huffing down at her. He even creates a good Snively Whiplash, for those of you who remember Bullwinkle the Moose. I'll stop being obtuse. By now Senator Will Lee is in his second term as the senator from Georgia. His wife Kate is rapidly rising in the ranks of the CIA. The president falls and slips into a coma. Joe Adams, the Veep, has early Alzheimer's disease, a fact known by only a few Washington insiders. So, Will decides to announce his candidacy for the presidency. Political infighting of the highest order ensues. Senator Lee's life is endangered by a small group of right-wingnuts ensconced in your typical bomb-defense-enforced cabin in the Idaho woods. Political terrorism ensues. This kind of plot is a thing which is being cranked out by the bushels by the Nelson DeMilles and Brad Thors of the world, and fine writers they are. It sells copies. It's not bad writing. Maybe it's just that I recently read All the King's Men, by Robert Penn Warren, and this stuff, by comparison to that, is thin gruel, indeed.
The bonus, quite unexpectedly, is that the narrator of this book is not Ken Howard, but Frank Muller. This is just about the only reason I would buy a book like this. Having listened to so much of Frank's truly marvelous work, I'm afraid I am down to stems and seeds now, if you know what I mean. Frank is a little rushed here by the production people, which happens when he is forced to read sub-par writing, but even this pressure can't push his immense talent down. He makes this stuff exciting, even though we all know that the good guys will win, and the truly sleazy bad guys will lose. Why else do we read? (Wait, There must be a better reason than that.) The secret service intrudes on the lives of Will and Kate, the plot accelerates to the screeching point, and everyone, I guess, is satisfied. If this is the kind of stuff you take to the beach, go right ahead. Don't forget the hat and suntan lotion. Or maybe just fall asleep for a couple of chapters. You won't miss a thing.
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