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Color Him Dead
Color Him Dead
Color Him Dead
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Color Him Dead

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Terrified, she rolled over on the sand and sat up, not even trying to cover her body.

''Tell you what,'' the strange man said. ''We’ll play a little game. You try to remember me and I’ll tell you when you’re getting warm.''

She watched him slowly unwrap an oilcloth package. ''You hid in that shack,'' she said, ''so you could catch me alone . . .''

''And violate your fair white body? No, Edith. I've been there and back. I can’t make that scene again.''

''Damn you!'' she cried. ''You come on like an old lover, but I can’t remember!''

''You aren’t trying,'' he said softly. ''Think of me without the beard, without the scars, a married man with a wife and kid. You destroyed it, Edith. You wiped me clean. Remember?''

He opened the package then and Edith saw the gleam of the gun.

''See, Edith? I brought it two thousand miles. Nobody knows I’m here, so they’ll just have to assume that the sharks got you . . .''
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Release dateJan 15, 2012
ISBN9781440539886
Color Him Dead
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Charles Runyon

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    It is a story about love, about betrayal, about waiting ten years to exact revenge, about trust and loyalty. It is a book written with great skill and contains incredible prose. It is a powerful story filled with the rawest of emotions. It begins with a man in prison and is, indeed, about the cages we put ourselves in out of guilt or fear, traps of the past, shackles of memory that we can't escape. It is a story about the nature of evil and cruelty.

    Drew was betrayed by a woman who framed him for a crime he didn't commit. He lost everything -- his wife, his daughter, his job. On the run from every lawman in the country, Drew tracks Edith from one man to another as she keeps trading up to find the safety and security she craves. He tracks her across the Caribbean and finds an island girl who loves him and will do anything for him, but his red hot rage propels him to revenge on the one who betrayed him.

    "She was a witch and she must confess her witchery." "She had pointed the black-gloved finger which consigned him to death."

    "Drew's mind was jumbled,crumpled, disintegrated like the inside of a broken thermos bottle, little bits shaking loose inside, all hurting."

    Edith was a girl who had married wealth expecting to find the end of her troubles, only to discover that the nagging feeling of insecurity wouldn't go away."

    Runyon writes pulp as if he were reciting poetry and there are scenes and moods and emotions he captures that are just outstanding.

    Leta "had stepped from the sea and flowed like liquid to the hard- packed sand, spreading her limbs like a golden flower opening to the sun."

    Runyon doesn't just write novels. He writes masterpieces that you want to read more than once so you can read his descriptions of the sky blending into the sea and the temptress in the green bikini whose claws are never fully retracted.

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