Dead Man Running

By: Steve Hamilton

Narrated by: nick sullivan

Alex McKnight--hero of Steve Hamilton's bestselling, award-winning, and beloved private eye series--is back in a high-stakes, nail-biting thriller, facing the most dangerous enemy he's ever encountered.

On the Mediterranean Sea, a vacationer logs on to the security-camera feed from his home in Scottsdale, Arizona. Something about his living room seems not quite right--the room is bright, when he's certain he'd left the curtains closed. Rewinding through the feed, he sees an intruder. When he shifts to the bedroom camera, he sees the dead body.

Martin T. Livermore is the key suspect in the abduction and murder of at least five women, but he's never been this sloppy before. When the FBI finally catches him in Scottsdale, he declares he'll only talk to one person: a retired police officer from Detroit, now a private investigator living in the tiny town of Paradise, Michigan. A man named Alex McKnight.

Livermore means nothing to McKnight, but it soon becomes clear McKnight means something to Livermore...and that Livermore's capture was only the beginning of an elaborate, twisted plot with McKnight at the center. In a hunt that will take him across the country and to the edge of his limits, McKnight fights to stop a vicious killer before he can exact his ultimate revenge. And his grand finale will cut closer to home than he ever could have imagined.

Critic reviews

Praise for Dead Man Running

“Brilliant...The plot develops in multiple unexpected directions, and its logical convolutions are matched by Hamilton’s deepening portrayal of his fully realized lead.”—Publishers Weekly

“Alex McKnight’s been put through the ringer before, but never quite like this....Steve Hamilton rakes his hero over the coals, taking him to hell and back as he faces off with a man so evil that he’d scare the hell out of the devil himself. Full of twists and turns, Hamilton’s latest McKnight novel is raw, dark, and absolutely relentless....Dead Man Running proves that Steve Hamilton is one of the best crime writers on the planet, and his latest showing will leave readers begging for more.”—The Real Book Spy

“Hamilton’s long-awaited reboot of the McKnight series is a streamlined, gut-wrenching thriller.”—Booklist

Praise for Steve Hamilton and the Alex McKnight series

“Whatever he writes, I'll read. Steve Hamilton's that good.”—Lee Child

“Steve Hamilton writes the kind of stories that manly men and tough-minded women can't resist.”—The New York Times

“I'm often asked to recommend a detective series readers might have missed. This is it.”—Harlan Coben

“Hamilton's compelling, vigorous prose doesn't allow the option of taking a break.”—Los Angeles Times

“Steve Hamilton writes tough, passionate novels with a strong emphasis on heart and humanity. This is crime writing at its very best.”—George Pelecanos

Never a dissapointment

This guy writes great books. I have read them all and never read a bad one.

Meh

The trouble with this book for me was that I came to it right after listening to the Red Sparrow trilogy, which is way better writing and was fabulously narrated.
I used to dig serial killer stories, but after really good espionage, not so much.
If you like a good, weird serial killer, you’ll love this.

Excellent!

Love this series! Although I missed the characters from Paradise, this book was riveting from the very beginning!! Can’t wait for the next one. Thanks

Decent, but not a fan of the narration.

Not my favorite Alex McKnight book, but a good story. Not a fan of the narration though. Just seemed weird to me. Had a hard time hearing the Alex McKnight I have come to love in his voice/style.

Plot was pretty run of the mill

Another serial killer-yadda yadda yadda. I like the final twist but I’d rather this story take place in the UP with the characters I love. I know it’s unlikely that so many crimes what happened in the small upper Peninsula Michigan town, but we as readers of mysterys have come to except this. There’s no need to travel across the country to find new criminals. Telling your same fascinating stories by solving lesser crimes or old crimes with your up north characters or visitors to Mich. would be better. For example find out the facts of that old murder outside of the depot in Harrisville and spin is a yarn.