"Attention-grabbing and intriguing"

Ethan Decker gave up his wife and his existence the day his son was killed, murdered by a madman out for revenge on Ethan and his team of government agents. Hiding in the New Mexico desert, Ethan is the only member of his team left -- or so he thinks, until a woman he worked with shows up with two children. Telling him nothing about them, she leaves and is killed. Ethan wants answers, but one thing he knows for sure is that the man who killed his son is still out there, waiting for Ethan, watching Ethan's wife, the woman he walked away from in order to keep her alive. Suddenly Ethan flies back into his wife's life, pulling two mysterious children with him, and drags her on a quest away from danger.

Sydney Decker can't forgive her husband for abandoning her after their son died, but she can't turn him away either. Even after three years, she still loves him, but can't believe him when he says that a trained killer murdered their child and is after her. But as events unfold, Sydney realizes that something evil is out there. As she and Ethan race to save two children, she begins to accept that while they cannot erase a painful past, they can fight for a future together.

An exciting and gripping thriller, BLIND RUN combines all the elements necessary to a quality romantic suspense: a strong, tormented hero, a determined yet vulnerable heroine, a variety of evil villains, and a plot that twists and turns so many times, the reader won't figure out the ending no matter how savvy a detective she thinks she is.

Reviewed by Kelley Hartshorn
Posted February 25, 2003

In Blind Run, Patricia Lewin has written a breathless novel of unrelenting suspense and nerve-cracking tension that is also a gripping story of lost love, lost innocence, and a last chance at revenge.

Summary

Ethan Decker is a specialized "Hunter" for the most secretive agency of the U.S. government, working deep undercover to track down and capture ruthless international mercenaries and fugitives. But when a daring mission takes a lethal turn, a renegade assassin kills Decker's young son in retribution. Forced to leave his devastated, unsuspecting wife, Sydney, to save her from the madman's threats, Decker exiles himself to the New Mexican desert to live in a jail of his own guilt and grief.

The day starts like any other in the desert: scorching, cloudless. But then, like a mirage, a car appears on the horizon. Inside is Anna Kelsey, a former member of Decker's covert team, a woman Decker presumed dead in the hell following that ill-fated mission three years ago. But she survived—and now she shepherds two children, entrusting them to Decker's protection. Before he can protest, Anna is screeching away in a cloud of dust.

Now Decker is reeling from the sudden turn of events—and the shocking sight of Anna's body not far down the road from where she left his trailer and the kids. The Spanish coin under her tongue is a mark Decker hoped never to see again . . . the signature of the assassin Ramirez.

Suddenly the race is on: to reach his ex-wife before Ramirez finds her, and to unlock the mystery behind these two children and why Anna died to give them refuge. But for Decker, Sydney's trust is not his to have any longer, and the children are pawns in a dark conspiracy so vast and so evil that even this former spy could not imagine the peril and terror that lies directly in his path.

As Decker fights to protect the innocent and struggles to restore a shattered relationship that seems beyond repair, Patricia Lewin takes us on a thrilling ride full of whip- snap action, deadly turns and almost unbearable suspense.