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    Running Dark (Emma Caldridge Series #2)

    Running Dark (Emma Caldridge Series #2)

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    by Jamie Freveletti


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    Jamie Freveletti is a former trial lawyer, martial artist, and runner. She is the author of four books in her own Emma Caldridge series as well as Robert Ludlum's Covert One novel, The Janus Reprisal. She lives in Chicago.

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    From internationally bestselling author Jamie Freveletti comes a riveting new thriller featuring brilliant biochemist Emma Caldridge, except this time there's nowhere to run. . . .

    Emma Caldridge is on mile thirty-six of the fifty-five-mile Comrades ultramarathon in South Africa when a roadside car bomb explodes. Dazed and disoriented, she regains consciousness after the blast to find a man standing over her with a white plastic injector. She feels the prick of a needle and the rush of medication under her skin, but before she can make a sound, the man is gone.

    Shaken by the event and unsure of what substance was pumped into her, Emma calls the one person who can help her figure things out: Edward Banner of the security company Darkview. But Banner has his hands full with another emergency: Somali pirates in the Gulf of Aden have attacked a cruise ship, and Darkview has been hired to assist with the rescue.

    However, according to intelligence sources, the ship is carrying cargo far more valuable than wealthy passengers—something that could be a new weapon of unknown origin. Suspecting the weapon may be chemical in nature, Banner asks Emma to infiltrate the ship and use her professional expertise to identify it. Emma knows it's a risky job, one that she might not survive. But when she learns that special agent Cameron Sumner—a man who has saved her life in the past—is among the hostages, nothing will stop her from getting onboard, no matter what the cost.

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    Publishers Weekly
    Freveletti rummages in the thriller pantry and comes up with an armful of standard ingredients for her unremarkable second novel featuring chemist Emma Caldridge (after Running from the Devil). Shortly after Emma is blown off her feet by a car explosion while running in a South African ultramarathon, a stranger injects her arm with a drug, then disappears. Emma recovers and finishes the 55mile race in record time. To solve this mystery, she turns to her friend Edward Banner, head of Darkview, an American security company. The cast of characters eventually includes a Somali pirate, Khalil Mungabe; his boss, "The Vulture"; Richard Stark, CEO of the shady Price Pharmaceuticals; and Emma's love interest, Cameron Sumner, a private security agent aboard the cruise liner Kaiser Franz. The action heats up once Emma gets on the liner and starts battling Somali pirates, but weak plotting and contrived situations make it hard to suspend disbelief. (July)
    Kirkus Reviews
    Biochemist-cum-action hero Emma Caldridge, barely recovered from her frightening Colombian adventure in Running from the Devil (2009), is drafted by a Blackwater-like security firm to help save a cruise ship and its dangerous cargo from Somali pirates. In Running from the Devil, Freveletti's debut, Caldridge survived a plane crash in the Colombian jungle and aided the rescue of surviving passengers who were taken hostage by guerrilla soldiers. In this sequel, she is blown "out of her shoes" by a roadside car-bomb blast while running an ultramarathon in South Africa, but she finishes the race in full stride after someone injects her with a mysterious performance-enhancing substance. Before she can figure out who injected her, she is making her way to the Gulf of Aden on assignment from the security company, Darkview, to infiltrate the cruise ship and determine what is hidden in its cache of pharmaceuticals. It's a dangerous job: "Somalia has a way of devouring whatever falls in its path. But as Emma says, ?Who better than a chemist to figure this out?' " And how can she not become involved, what with the man who saved her in Colombia, attractive government agent Cameron Sumner, on the ship? Stocked with ruthless warlords, grenade-launching baddies, duplicitous middle men, a stoic pilot and, let's not forget, the deadly box jellyfish, the book is squarely in the Peter Benchley mode, only with a female hero front and center. But while it's efficiently plotted and competently written, it lacks involving characters and a compelling voice, and it often reads more like a blueprint for a movie than a novel. Decent story, by-the-numbers execution. Agent: Barbara Poelle/Irene Goodman Agency

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