Death Row: The Fugitive [Paperback]

Jaid Black (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 2003

The United Americas of Earth: 2249 A.D. On the eve of his execution, Death Row inmate Kerick Riley overpowers the guard and escapes the violent penal colony that has been his prison for over fifteen years. On the run to find the answers he seeks, the grim-faced, gray-eyed Kerick has two things on his mind: revenge and woman... Scientist Nellie Kan has spent the last several years researching a frightening disorder that has developed in certain populations of humans. On the verge of developing a serum, Dr. Kan is kidnapped by an escaped Death Row inmate and claimed as his personal sexual property. Is her captor the key to the answer she seeks, or a lunatic who will destroy them both? "Raw, suspense and action filled, hot enough to burn your fingers. This one will particularly appeal to female fantasies of being sexually dominated. Jaid Black in her finest hour." - Pandora's Box on the Death Row serial

Product Details

• Paperback: 148 pages
• Publisher: Ellora's Cave (January 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1843603675
• ISBN-13: 978-1843603672
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,021,878 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars First of a Series, September 15, 2003

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Torie West (Riverside, Ca) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Row: The Fugitive (Paperback)

Death Row: The Fugitive begins the saga of a futuristic earth where science and bio-engineered humans are in the forefront and sub-humans run wild in the jungles, killing as monstrous animals to survive.

Kerick Riley has served over 15 years in a prison where he is slated to be executed. A prison that no one has ever escaped from before. But Kerick and fellow Death Row inmates Elijah and Xavier do escape and vow to finish their mission to assassinate those in the Hierarchy for their crimes against humanity.
Nellie Kan is a bio-engineered female scientist in a world where women are for pleasure and few are privileged enough to be allowed a career. Her life's work is perfecting a serum that will keep those humans infected from turning into sub-humans. This serum was began by Margaret Riley, Kerick's mother who succumbed to the infection herself.
Now Nellie faces danger from all directions. Many would kill for the serum yet Nellie must continue her work on it. She is abducted by Kerick who wants her for a mate and will stop at nothing to master her and claim her as his own. She must convince Kerick for the greater good of humanity that it is imperative she be allowed to finish the serum.
Faced with no choice Nellie escapes Kerick and must journey to the Underworld as Margaret Riley's journal leads her to either salvation or doom.

I am not a big fan of serials that do not tie the ends up in each volume and require the reader to wait for subsequent volumes to find out the answers. But Jaid Black has written the exception. This dark, satirical tale has subtle humor and fast-paced action in every chapter. The world of the future is male dominated and highly sexual with good versus evil blurring the lines and the consequences of man manipulating nature will hold readers in its grip till they read the sequels.

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too short & too expensive, December 17, 2003

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Mary (British Columbia, CANADA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Death Row: The Fugitive (Paperback)

The only complaint I have is that it's too short and too expensive (hence my rating of 3 out of 5). I love the story about Kerick and Nellie but when I visited Ms. Black's web page, I found out that in the near future you can buy all three stories in one book...meaning one price. Bummer for all the Jaid Black fans who bought all three at an outragious price (me included):( Buyer beware, if you want to read this series (very good I might add) PLEASE WAIT UNTIL "THE DEATH ROW" 3-IN-1 BOOK.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too Expensive, April 12, 2003

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S. Brown "tinkkytone" (La Mesa, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Death Row: The Fugitive (Paperback)

I own the MS reader version, which I bought for [money] or something. The story is usual JB, and it definitely steams, but there is no way I am going to pay [money] for the book. I would have given the book 4 stars, because although it's good it isn't the best JB I have read (I own all her books), but the price is way too much. If you can still purchase this book in eformat do it. The entire book is is probably less then 120 pages. Ask yourself if you want to spend [money] on that!?