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A respected senator from Georgia, Will Lee has aspirations of more.But a cruel stroke of fate thrusts him onto the national stage well before he expects, and long before he's ready, for a national campaign.

The road to the White House, however, will be more treacherous -- and deadly -- than Will and his intelligent, strikingly beautiful wife, Kate, an associate director in the Central Intelligence Agency, can imagine. A courageous and principled man, Will soon learns he has more than one opponent who wants him out of the race. Thrust into the spotlight as never before, he's become the target of clandestine enemies from the past who will use all their money and influence to stop him -- dead. Now Will isn't just running for president -- he's running for his life.

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A review of the abridged audiobook

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Ken Howard (most famous for his TV show "The White Shadow") narrates this 6 hour abridgment of a below par political thriller. Filled with undeveloped story threads that promise something interesting but rarely deliver (the VP has alzheimers, militias are out to assassinate the candidate, the candidate's wife is a bigwig in the CIA, there's dirt on the candidate - all for naught) "The Run" is a great example of a political thriller for people who do not really follow politics. Lots of things won't sit right with folks who watch politics -primaries are still happening in July and August, there is at least one brokered convention (another one is hinted at but it may have been abridged out of my version), the amounts of money spent are tiny, even by year 2000 standards. Perhaps strangest of all, Bill Clinton is referenced several times throughout this book which purports to be about the year 2000 election. Strangely, Clinton is not the president at the time of the 2000 election, nor had he been removed by impeachment in the story (Woods would have been writing this at the time of Clinton's impeachment). Why not make the election the 2004 or 2008 election? Not a big deal, but it bothered me throughout. Skip this one. If you want to read a good Stuart Woods thriller, read Chiefs: A Novel (25th Anniversary Edition) or White Cargo.

Lacks total imagination	Customer Rating:
4 hours of my life I will never get back. I wish I was the type that could stop reading garbage once I start a book because it was quite obvious early on.

Where's the Action?

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The Margin Congressman Will Lee has decided to run for President of the U.S., the story develops around the campaign. Herein lies the good and the bad of this Stuart Woods novel. There is an enormous amount of information about campaigning that is very interesting since this (2008) is an election year. That part is interesting just from an educational point of view, however it crowds out the action normally seen in a Woods mystery. Throughout The Run there are a few assassination attempts and there is some action/excitment around these events. The ending is action filled, if you can wait that long. As far as my recommendation, it's an okay novel, but far from his best.

I loved this book!	Customer Rating:
I just read this book and it was absolutely wonderful from the beginning to the end. Non-stop action, surprises through out and just enough sex to make it interesting without over-doing it. A great read. Especially as we enter another season of presidential elections, this book is very timely and very entertaining.

The Run mostly trots

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Will Lee, Senator from Georgia, is given disturbing news by his friend and Vice President Joe Adams. Joe will not be running for President in the 2000 election because he was recently diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease. Will must not only keep Joe's secret, but make decisions regarding his own political future and presidential campaign. But Will soon learns that a presidential campaign is harder than he could have ever predicted complicated by both the political wranglings of enemies and opponents, and by the threats posed by those enemies outside political circles, but equally motivated by political agendas. The question remains - which of these enemies is more dangerous and Will survive them both in his bid to become the next President of the United States? The Run trots along at a decent pace but is not the fastest paced thriller around. The plot is decent and brings back memories of the extremely close presidential election that did, in fact, take place in 2000. But overall it is just average. The story is predictable and hardly more original than other political thrillers of it's caliber or similarly inspired TV shows. However, politial thrillers will always please a certain type of reader and for those readers this will be a fairly quick, easy, and generally entertaining read.