Wolf Run - Softcover

Julian Jay Savarin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0708825141 ISBN 13: 9780708825143

Publisher: Futura Publications, 1985

Synopsis

His lover Laura's death sends former undercover agent Gordon Gallagher back undercover--from France to London to Zaire--to search for the mastermind behind the murder. Reprint.

About this title

From Kirkus Reviews:

Free-lance spy-turned-photographer Gordon Gallagher (Villiger, Naja) sets his supercharged, all-wheel-drive Audi in pursuit of his fianc‚e's murderers. Gorbachev was unknown and anti-lock braking was not standard equipment when this thriller first appeared in the UK in 1984. Gallagher's passion for his automobile can prove distracting at times--for example, when he gives it the name of his assassinated sweetheart--but it is a very fast and very reliable machine, and the Afro-British Gallagher is otherwise perfectly sound. This adventure finds him on a skiing holiday with ravishing, splendidly rich Lauren Tanner, whom he loves and whom he plans to marry--until on a steep downhill run she falls victim to a sniper's bullet. Someone is wiping out all the survivors of the airplane hijacking that brought Lauren and Gallagher together, and indeed there was a less skillfully aimed bullet meant for Gallagher himself. Controlling his wild grief rather quickly, Gallagher enlists the help of his pretty attending physician to spot the killers and then zooms off in pursuit in his magnificent motorcar. Soon he is running bad guys off the road all the way across Europe. It is not enough that he find out who pulled the triggers; Gallagher wants to know who paid them and why--questions he asks of his old colleagues in the UK. The answers lie in Zaire--where a callous munitions-maker is peddling cruise missiles to the locals and where it would be much too expensive to ship the Audi. Gallagher must make do with rentals. Smooth but undistinguished action-adventure. -- Copyright ©1991, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

From Publishers Weekly:

Savarin ( Hammerhead ) contributes yet another name to the list of undercover agents bent on retirement who are inexorably drawn back into active espionage. Gordon Gallagher, formerly with the British Secret Service, and his fiancee, Lauren, have barely survived a series of harrowing ordeals. After their plane was hijacked, they were dumped "in an underground prison in the middle of Australia," from which they escaped in a daring prison breakout. Now, during a skiing vacation in France, Lauren is brutally murdered and Gallagher narrowly escapes. Although his former bosses forbid him to seek revenge, Gallagher is obsessed with finding the person responsible for Lauren's murder, whom he is convinced can only be Inge Schonbronn, one of the gang of hijackers. Following Schonbronn's trail to Africa, Gallagher uncovers a frightening scheme with nuclear implications. Savarin is occasionally authoritative on the espionage game, his dialogue is taut but the narrative lags somewhat in suspense.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Futura Publications
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0708825141
• ISBN 13: 9780708825143
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288