Runner

A Nick Lynch Thriller, Book Eight ft. Jenny McFadden

By: E.L. McKenzie

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Thirty-seven taken in one hour.
One got away.
Everyone is looking for her.

One December night, professional crews capture thirty-seven kids and young adults in cities across the country. Every one of them was raised in a secret program, in bunkers, numbered instead of named, and trained to be a weapon. The crews wipe the apartments before the police arrive. Nobody sees a thing.

The crews miss one. Ella Ellis shoots two of the men at her door, dives out the window under fire, and runs.

Six months ago Ella walked away from her program siblings for an ordinary life in Atlanta. Now an AI turns every camera toward her face. The men it sends have no records anywhere. Each news network runs her picture on the hour. She is the only witness, and she trusts no one.

FBI Assistant Director Nick Lynch needs her alive and cannot find her. His wife, President Jenny McFadden, has weeks left in office, and whoever ordered the kidnappings wants them finished before she leaves. His daughter Michelle is carrying messages from Ziggy, the young man who once led the program's children and now lives inside a machine. Ziggy felt every light go out.

Somebody is building a machine to move a human mind into a new body. Every ordinary man it was tried on died. The program kids are the only minds that live through it, so that somebody is testing it on them, one after another, until it works on the person who paid for it.

Runner is Book 8 in the Nick Lynch series, a crime thriller about a woman raised to be used, the man who has to find her first, and the people who will kill to keep what they built.