Runner
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Jak Rebo is one such runner, whose current job is to deliver a future religious leader to his people, while avoiding assassins. If that’s not enough, he gets involved with a very beautiful woman who holds the secret to instantaneous travel between star systems—a secret that some would kill for.
With death waiting at every port, Jak soon realizes that this time he is running for his life...
William C. Dietz
William C. Dietz is the New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty novels, including Halo: The Flood, StarCraft: Heaven’s Devils, and the Legion of the Damned series. He grew up in the Seattle area, served as a medic with the Navy and the Marines, and graduated from the University of Washington. Dietz worked as a surgical technician, a news writer, a college instructor, a television producer, and a director of public relations for an international telephone company prior to embarking on a full-time writing career. Visit his website at WilliamCDietz.com.
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Reviews for Runner
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5A pleasant read and some good ideas. Characters worth caring about.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Better than I expected. Set in the far future, in a universe in which human civilization is in decline, this novel is built around a double chase. A technologically-oriented secret society wants to capture an empath to use her as a link to their departed founder; meanwhile, a courier tasked with escorting a young monk must escape assassins sent by a competing faction. Their fates collide. The plot carries the characters across several planets, giving Dietz plenty of opportunities to equip his universe with historical depth and explore distinct cultures. The good guys are sympathetic while the villains are suitably loathsome -- although the body count of the innocent and semi-innocent is pretty high. The most frustrating aspect of the book is a peculiar quirk of the author's writing style: freestanding sentence fragments that are really dependent clauses. A habit that can add colloquial punch when used in moderation, but becomes really annoying when deployed too often. It's what colons and semicolons are for; Runner could use more of them.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The ending does a disservice to his readers. Another author more interested in setting the stage for sequels than providing a good work for his readers.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I really enjoyed this book. It was pretty much non-stop action and fairly exciting. Hard to put down.In the distant future, universal technology has crumbled, leaving humankind to exist in a kind of medieval/20th century existence, minus any real technology -- with the exception of a series of rapidly decreasing star ships that go from planet to planet, transporting what people they can, as they were programmed to do hundreds of years ago. It's a bit of a bizarre premise, but if you can accept it, you're off.Jak Rebo is a runner. Runners are hired to travel from planet to planet to deliver items for a stiff price. He's hired to deliver a young boy to another planet. This boy is part of a large religious sect that thinks he's the reincarnation of their leader and has to be tested against another boy from another sect. The problem is, this other sect wants this boy, Lee, dead. (The religion is obviously based on Buddhism.) Along the way, they pick up a female sensitive (clairvoyant) named Lanni Norr, through whom Milos Lysander, the dead founder of the Techno Society has chosen to reveal himself. The Techno Society wants to get the long dead star gates working again, the AIs working, technology working, and will stop at nothing to achieve this, so it's imperative they communicate with Lysander, who doesn't want to communicate with them, only to the general population through Norr. So Norr becomes their target. Additionally, to complicate matters, along the way they pick up another traveler, a giant who's wanted dead or alive, preferably dead. The chase all makes for good reading.This is the first book in a series, apparently, and I enjoyed this one so much, I'll have to get the next one. I don't know how many books there are in this series, however. If you like an entertaining read and enjoy sci fi, this book's for you. Recommended.