By Alan Cook
Awards:
--Silver Quill Award from the yankee Authors Association
--Named Best Pacific West e-book via Reader Views
Drake and Melody are teamed as much as run a race alongside the California Coast for a prize of 1000000 dollars-in 1969 while 1000000 is worthy whatever. Neither is familiar with the opposite is within the race ahead of it starts off. They as soon as did undercover interact in England, yet this knowledge is meant to be most sensible mystery. The race sponsor, Giganticorp, is a big and intensely ecocnomic executive army contractor, whose formidable CEO, Casey Messinger, is attached to the strong in Washington, which needs to supply him entry to categorised information.
The 9 different pairs of runners entered within the race are world-class marathoners, together with a winner of the Boston Marathon. If this festival is not sufficient, anyone attempts to knock Drake out of the race ahead of it starts off. yet Drake and Melody additionally obtain threats calculated to maintain them from chucking up the sponge. The stakes raise while startling occasions produce fatalities and influence the race, prime them to invite no matter if the chilly battle with the USSR is set to warmth up. if this is the case, is it more secure to line up with the hawks or the doves-because a improper selection may well suggest giving up precious freedom for questionable security.
With their past education and their very own contacts in Washington, Drake and Melody are within the most sensible place to determine even if quite a few occasions are hooked up and who's in the back of them. Their different problem is to maintain themselves in solid actual situation as a way to compete for the prize funds whereas working in the course of the remarkable surroundings of the California coast from the Mexican border to San Francisco.
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Maybe it is about money. All right, we accept. ” Melody sipped water from her canteen and watched Drake as he sat on a rock beside the La Jolla caves and attempted to bend over and touch his feet. He was trying to get the kinks out of his back. The sweat on Drake’s face wasn’t just from the warm sun. “I can’t remember. Oh yes, I said it was for the money. Well, the money’s nice, but there’s something more. ” “Intuition is what women have. But something doesn’t feel quite right. Why is Casey willing to pay us a thousand dollars a day to stay in the run?
He almost forgot that someone might be trying to kill him. They splashed through shallow water as Oneonta Slough lazily joined the ocean, but wet feet were par for the course for marathoners. Running on sand didn’t jolt his back as much as running on a hard surface, but the tradeoff was that it required more effort because the sand gave beneath his feet. That slowed them down, but speed was the least of his worries. Soon they were passing a row of houses that were right on the beach. Piles of dark rocks formed a wall in front of them—a breakwater, evidently to ward off extra-high tides.
The year I spent with you was a lot of things, but it was never dull. ” Melody’s manner became brisk. “Tell me about your injuries. I assume your nose won’t be a problem, except that it may spoil your pretty-boy looks if it ends up misshapen. That may be a good thing. ” “I have a few minor cuts, as you can see. Other than that, I have a bruise on my chest…” Melody began unbuttoning his shirt. When Drake protested, she said, “I’m a certified fitness instructor. Hold still. ” She pronounced his chest satisfactory.