The Runner : A Novel (English Edition)

Christopher Reich dazzled readers and defied expectations with his "New York Times bestseller, Numbered Account, a breathtaking classic of modern suspense. Now Reich returns to the world of international thrillers with a no-holds-barred powerhouse of a novel set against the seething backdrop of post--World War II Germany....

At the end of WWII Erich Seyss, former SS officer and Olympic sprinter, known as the 'White Lion', uses his skills as a trained killer and escapes from the American POW camp holding him. He finds refuge with a shadowy organisation of former Nazis who plan to use his expertise in a breathtaking plot - a conspiracy that could change the destiny of Europe. Hard on his heels is Devlin Judge, an American lawyer who has his own reasons for wanting Seyss brought to justice. Devlin must find him at all costs - to prevent a catastrophe of horrifying proportions.

July 1945. For two months, the Nazi nightmare has ended. For Erich Seyss, SS officer and former German 100-meter champion, the dream of the "thousand-year Reich" promised by the Führer has just collapsed. But it is perhaps not too late to give it another chance and shatter the peace that the Allies are preparing. The day Seyss manages to escape from the camp where he is interned, one man understands that he must act: Devlin Judge, of the International Military Tribunal. He has seven days left to arrest the fugitive, the fastest man in Europe. Seven days before the opening of the conference which will decide the future of the West... In the ruined Germany of the immediate post-war period, Christopher Reich has imagined a diabolical intrigue - worthy of the best novels of John Le Carré, Ken Follett or Frederick Forsyth.

July 1945. U.S. attorney Devlin Judge has come to Europe as part of an international tribunal to try Nazi war criminals. But Judge has his own personal agenda: to find Erich Siegfried Seyss, the man responsible for his brother's death — An SS officer and former Olympic sprinter, Seyss has just escaped from a POW camp, leaving a trail of bodies in his wake. But he won't escape Devlin Judge.
Between the two men are miles of German countryside ... and the beautiful daughter of one of Nazi Germany's most powerful families -- a woman loved by them both. But as Judge hunts his prey across a devastated nation, he finds himself caught up in a staggering conspiracy. Because Erich Seyss is no rogue SS killer. He is a man running a final race to make one last, unforgettable contribution to the Fatherland. And he is acting on orders from the last person anyone would ever suspect. . .

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