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Run Jane Run

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"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!

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!

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?

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.

Good storyline, but the story begins to fall apart after the first half. It's good with keeping up the mystery aspect of it, but when the third act comes into play, you tend to become bored with the story. I felt that the ending was spectacular, and the beginning was just as good. But the middle was a bit of an undertone to what I came to think would be a great middle piece to an excellent story. Good read, but lacking ...just a little.

If you like spy thrillers with a strong heroine and lots of action - this book is for you. Jane deals with a mystery from her past, betrayal in the present, and a killer on her trail. At the same time, she has to confront her fears about loving a cop who has dangers of his own to face Once started, I could not put this book down and anxiously await the next entry in the series.

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

Maureen Tan has presented us with yet another excellent page turner. I look forward to a third novel in this series. Jane is evolving nicely into a very real character who's stuff seems to all be in one sock! Gimme more! Hey out there Pat Cornwell, read this lady and learn something about characterization. And Morgana, email me. I lost your address.

This is an attempt to make a female-oriented James Bond-type thing. Jane Nichols is an MI-5 agent who chases around the world killing terrorists, infiltrating espionage organizations, and chasing other spies. In AKA Jane she winds up hiding in Savannah, and also winds up falling in love with the local police chief. She's still living with the chief when Run Jane Run starts, but working for her old boss in MI-5 on occasion. At the start of this book, she leaves Alex (the police chief) and goes back to England, but one last mission leaves her wounded, confused, and having nightmares that bring back memories of the death of her parents when she was a small child. She flees back to Alex, and of course the bad guys follow.

There's a strange feeling to this book, difficult to figure out at first. All of the blurbs speak of the main character as a female James Bond, but of course she isn't: she's more like a character in one of Robert Ludlum's books. Then it finally hit me: this isn't really a spy novel, it's a romance novel with an espionage theme. The romance aspects of the novel are very apparent once you look at it this way, and it becomes clear that this is mainly a melodrama, not a real story. I would only recommend this book to people interested in the idea of a romance novel with espionage overtones; everyone else should look elsewhere.