On the Run

By: Iris Johansen

Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck

Length: 9 hrs and 2 mins

Publisher's summary

The picture was a warning: they'd found her. For eight years Grace Archer hoped this day wouldn't come, and knew in her heart that it would.

She'd taken her daughter, Frankie, to a rural Alabama horse farm that might just as well have been at the end of the earth. But the man out to kill them would gladly follow them that far. And now, it seems, he had.

A woman with a highly classified past, Grace had never run from anything in her life. But as a mother, she'd do anything to keep eight-year-old Frankie safe. Now that safe world has been shattered, and a ferocious hunter has been unleashed. Suddenly the agency that owed Grace its gratitude and protection has abandoned her and only one ally remains: a man even more dangerous than her worst enemy.

She hasn't set eyes on Jake Kilmer since the catastrophic events of eight years ago. Now he's asking Grace to trust him with the one thing more precious to her than life itself. But with a ruthless criminal kingpin determined to make her pay for the past, her and her daughter's lives on the line, and time running out, she just may have to put her faith in a man who she believes has already betrayed her once.

©2005 Johansen Publishing LLLP (P)2005 Random House, Inc.

Critic reviews

"The novel starts off with guns blazing and doesn't slow down for murder, kidnapping, blackmail, sex, or sandstorm." (Publishers Weekly)
"Johansen gives her readers what they have come to expect from the queen of suspense: a truly evil, skin-crawling villain and complex heroes who must tangle with him in the shadow world of foreign intrigue." (Booklist)

Redundent

Not good, three boring themes that just go around and around.

waste of time and money

This book is a waste of time. The characters are totaly unrealistic. The plot, there is no realistic plot. We are supposed to believe that 9 years later our main character is supposed to go back and start trianing the same horses again? Is she so special that after all that time the bad guy couldn't find a horse trainer? A millionare bad guy? The good guy is worse, he is a world class spy/military man that gave up his career for protection for his girlfriend and child? The plot and the characters are umbelievable at best. I would rate this -5 stars if I could and I listened to the whole thing hoping that there would be one part that would be realistic or have some basis of believibility. I have listened and read thousands of stories and this is by far the worst of the worst. Save your self a headache. This is a huge waste of time and money.

More like a Harlequin Romance

This book was very disappointing, The summary made this sound like it was going to have a lot of action where in fact in had very little.

The Story Revolved around an UnderSexed woman a Child Prodigy (don't you hate storys that have to use brilliant kids to create a plot) and lots of talk about horses.

The Plot was preposterous and unbelievable. Don't waste your time on this one

Bad book. Bad BAAAD book

Why-oh-why did I not read these reviews before downloading this book. The plot is just too far fetched to be credible... I couldn't even suspend my disbelief and "just go with it" it's THAT far out there, so much so it deletes any suspence it was trying to obtain. The more I listened, the more I regreted my purchase - the book was just simply in one word: ridiculous.

Boring Cliche

One of the advantages of audible is that you get to try out new writers. This one is not a good candidate. The caracters are flat sterotypes without any credibility or inner life. The main child character is a flawless prodigy with an angelic spirit and maturtity which after a while becomes unintentionally funny. The plot is rather far out and involves two horses with special talents, a woman who can connect spiritually to them, a genuine male hero and a vilain with a heavy french accent. I enjoy good suspense books - King, Grisham et.al. - but this one is not worth the time it takes to suffer through it.