Until that day, Grant had never killed anyone.

Mickey Spillane says the first line sells the rest of the book. Finder hit it out of the park with that one. Grant Anderson, né Philip Brightman, has been on the run from the FBI and the CIA but mostly from his in-laws for five years. The latter finally catch up with him and then it’s off to the races as all three groups of people chase after him from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania to Washington D.C. When he’s not stumbling through the Appalachians on foot he’s driving cars rented and stolen and trusting all the wrong people. I was sure he was going to die on every other page.

But that’s only half the story, as how he got into this mess in the first place is interlarded with the chase scenes. Of course it’s all about a woman, and talk about picking the wrong one, which will leave you puzzled about the ending and wondering what happened to the girl friend. Breakneck pacing in this narrative and if you ever wanted to you’ll think twice about trying to disappear by the end. It ain’t easy being invisible today.

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