A Running Duck

Paula Gosling

ISBN 10: 1509855289 / ISBN 13: 9781509855285

Verlag: Pan Macmillan, GB, 2017

Beschreibung

An ordinary career woman - with a target on her back. Originally published in 1978, A Running Duck is a compulsive, vintage thriller from Paula Gosling, winner of the CWA Golden Dagger.Clare is a copywriter, working at an advertising agency in San Francisco. On a crowded street, as she helps a passing stranger pick up some dropped papers, a sniper's bullet pierces her arm.Scarred by his past, Lieutenant Malchek is a Vietnam veteran, a former sniper himself who now specialises in hunting down hitmen. He is assigned to Clare's case, tasked with protecting her life. Someone wants Clare dead - and Malchek knows how to draw him out . . .Full of suspense and romantic tension, A Running Duck has been adapted for film as Cobra, starring Sylvester Stallone.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers LU-9781509855285

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: A Running Duck
• Verlag: Pan Macmillan, GB
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 1509855289
• ISBN-13: 9781509855285
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: New
• Gewicht: 331 Gramm

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Inhaltsangabe

Clare Randell has a problem with her boyfriend and a lazy San Francisco Sunday to think it over. That's the Sunday she helps a passing stranger pick up the papers he's dropped from his briefcase.
From then on Clare's problems got bigger and more dangerous. Someone puts a hole in her arm with a silenced gun in a crowded street. Is it the same someone who put the bomb in her apartment? The cop assigned to her case is Lieutenant Malchek, an ex-Vietnam sniper who now specialises in hit-men and contract killers. Maybe the man who dropped the papers was someone special. Maybe he's got Clare on his list.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Paula Gosling was born in Detroit and moved permanently to England in 1964. She worked as a copywriter and a freelance copy consultant before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and she has since garnered both the Silver and Gold Daggers. She is a past Chairman of the CWA.