Running from the Devil: A Novel - Hardcover

Freveletti, Jamie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061684228 ISBN 13: 9780061684227

Publisher: William Morrow, 2009

Synopsis

“A breathless, hair-raising read, one of the most gripping thrillers I’ve read in a long, long time.”
—Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of The Keepsake

 

A high-octane debut thriller in the tradition of James Rollins, Lee Child, and Daniel Silva, Running From the Devil by Jaime Freveletti starts racing on page one and never slows down for a minute until it crosses the finish line. Lee Child calls it, “Just terrific—full of thrills and tradecraft, pace and peril,” and anyone who craves the adrenaline rush of smart, exceptional thriller fiction will love Running From the Devil and its strong, compelling heroine Emma Caldwell.

About this title

About the Author

Jamie Freveletti is a former trial lawyer, martial artist, and runner. She is the author of four books in her own Emma Caldridge series as well as Robert Ludlum's Covert One novel, The Janus Reprisal. She lives in Chicago.

From the Back Cover

A race against evil . . .

Emma Caldridge, a chemist for a cosmetics company, is en route from Miami to Bogotá when her plane is hijacked and spins out of control into the mountains near the Venezuelan border. Thrown unhurt from the wreckage, she can do nothing but watch as guerrillas take the other passengers hostage.

An endurance marathon runner, Emma silently trails the guerrillas and their captives, using her athletic prowess and scientific knowledge to stay alive. Those skills become essential when she discovers an injured passenger, secret government agent Cameron Sumner, separated from the group. Together they follow the hostages, staying one step ahead by staying one step behind.

Meanwhile, as news of the hijacking breaks in Washington, the Department of Defense turns to Edward Banner, former military officer and current CEO of a security consulting firm, for help. Banner quickly sends a special task force to the crash site, intent on locating the survivors before it’s too late.

But finding Emma and Sumner is only the beginning, as Banner starts to realize that Emma was on a personal mission when the plane went down. There is more to the beautiful, talented biochemist than anyone ever imagined, for in her possession is a volatile biological weapon in an ingenious disguise, one that her enemies have set for auction to the highest bidder.

Combining the action-packed plotting of Lee Child and Daniel Silva, and the rich scientific detail of Kathy Reichs and Tess Gerritsen, Running from the Devil is a breathtaking debut from a bold and daring new author.

Reviews

At the start of Freveletti's less than impressive debut, a British Airways flight from Miami, Fla., to Bogotá carrying 30-year-old chemist Emma Caldridge crashes in the Colombian jungle. Armed men dressed in fatigues start taking the survivors hostage, but Caldridge manages to escape into the forest. A distress call from her cellphone reaches the U.S. government, which recently sent troops to Colombia to help guard an oil pipeline, as well as Darkview, a Blackwater-like outfit assisting the U.S. military with special ops around the world. Caldridge proves amazingly successful at dodging the bad guys, and even uses her professional training to derive digitalis from a plant for a fellow passenger who'll die without it. Cameron Sumner, a member of a drug agency who had special reasons for being on the BA flight, provides the requisite romantic interest. Some may cheer the author's larger-than-life heroine, but the clichéd action offers nothing thriller readers haven't encountered countless times before. (May)
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On a fact-finding mission, a female biochemist for a cosmetics company takes a flight from Miami to Bogota and ends up in a fiery crash landing. The pace of Freveletti’s plot is quickly established: chemist Emma Caldridge is thrown from the wreckage, along with some other surviving passengers. She, however, has been thrown the farthest and witnesses guerrilla soldiers closing in on the passengers from a seemingly safe distance in the jungle. Caldridge tracks the band of hostages, gaining an ally in another passenger separated from the group, a government agent. The action shuttles between the wilds of the rain forest and D.C., as a military contractor tries to rescue the survivors of the crash. A hidden biological weapon, a terrorist timetable, and Caldridge’s survival skills all help hold readers’ interest in this pulse-pounding thriller. The writing runs to the hysterical, the characterization is romance-novel believable at best, but the action saves the book. --Connie Fletcher

Edition details

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0061684228
• ISBN 13: 9780061684227
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 310