Run Jane Run

by Maureen Tan

Book Overview

The grandson of a member of parliament has been taken hostage, and ex-British secret agent Jane Nichols is dispatched to rescue him. It should be a piece of cake--until she learns that the kidnapping... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892966599
• ISBN13: 9780892966592
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Mysterious Press
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Run Jane Run

For 10+ years I've read 2 or more books per week....the 2 "Jane" books are excellent! Characters are true to form & culture, the mystery is enthralling & has enough twists to maintain high interest but without the need to write down people etc in order to keep track. I fervently hope this woman writes more books!

I love Jane Nichols!

In Run Jane Run, the adventure of Jane Nichols is getting more exciting than before. Jane, again, does what she does best as a premium MI-5 agent. If you have read AKA Jane, you know what she is capable to do. In Run Jane Run, she easily does it again. Alex, her lover boy, is as hip as before. Another character that I really like is Joey, Alex's beautiful, blonde, younger sister. She is completely sweet and innocent. I hope her part would be bigger in the coming series. If you like AKA Jane, you would love Run Jane Run. After all, who could resist a beautiful British brunette fighting machine with a mysterious past?

Maureen Tan has taken this genre and made it her own!

"A.K.A. Jane" was the most exciting and definitely the best book in this genre... until "Run Jane Run" came along! This latest book from Maureen Tan is both gripping and believale, building on the strong foundation of "a.k.a.", and yet also stands brillantly on it's own. My two final words : More Please!

More! More! Have now met the author TAN. Great talker also.

Meeting the author and hearing her describe how "Jane" was born and by what means molded, gives a great insight into this character also known as Jane. Delightful and can't imagine putting it down until every word is absorbed. Great stuff. Please bring Jane round again.

Superb satirical thriller

The MI-5 chief assigns agent Jane Nichols with rescuing the kidnapped nephew of a member of Parliament. When it appears she and her partner will succeed, her target resists his freedom. The reaction of the so-called victim, the odd color of his eyes, and a wound received during the mission send Jane looking into her own past. She returns to the ugly memory of her parents murder, wondering if the MP ordered their deaths. As Jane recovers from her wounds, Mac sets her up as bait to lure the killer into the open. He next sends Jane to Savannah where she hooks up with her former lover Alex Callaghan, who is the victim of a stalker. As everything starts to come together, Jane has to question whether she can survive her current ordeal. The second Nichols novel, RUN JANE RUN, is as hilarious of a tale as the debut novel, AKA JANE. The story line is at Roger Rabbit speed as readers will need to fashion their seat belts to keep up with what happened to Jane. The support cast seem more like caricatures than people, but that actually adds an ironic depth to the tale. Anyone who relishes a satirical spy tale will want to read the adventures of Jane in the lands of England and America.Harriet Klausner