Runner

Mark Purter August 5, 2008 **__ RUNNER  __** ** By Carl Deuker  ** The book __Runner__ was set in Seattle, Washington. The story started with a teenager named Chance. He lived on an old broke down boat called, “the Tiny Dancer,” He lived with his drunk of a dad, because his mother left him and his dad when he was a child. Chance always ran down to the beach to relax himself until, one day a fat man came up and asked him if he wanted a job. All he had to do was go down to the beach, pick up the packages, and bring them back to the marina. The job paid as much as 200 dollars a week, until red packages came and he earned 300 dollars. Then Chance found out that he was dealing with terrorists, they tore apart his living quarters looking for the packages. Then they took his dad and sailed out on the Puget Sound and his dad helped stop the attack, but the boat exploded before he had a chance to get off. I really enjoyed this book because it was faced paced and it made you think about the things that happened. But I don’t think he should enlist in the army I think he should go to college. I rate this book average. It wasn’t that hard to read but the author was good at writing it, if he made a sequel I would read it.