A Running Duck by Paula Gosling

A Running Duck by Paula Gosling

An ordinary career woman – with a target on her back. Originally published in 1978, A Running Duck is a compulsive, vintage thriller from Paula Gosling, winner of the CWA Golden Dagger. Clare is a copywriter, working at an advertising agency in San Francisco. On a crowded street, as she helps a passing stranger pick up some dropped papers, a sniper's bullet pierces her arm. Scarred by his past, Lieutenant Malchek is a Vietnam veteran, a former sniper himself who now specialises in hunting down hitmen. He is assigned to Clare's case, tasked with protecting her life. Someone wants Clare dead – and Malchek knows how to draw him out . . . Full of suspense and romantic tension, A Running Duck has been adapted for film as Cobra, starring Sylvester Stallone.

This is a writer who always entertains * Sunday Telegraph *
Super, swift-sure characterisation, pace, high local colour: Paula Gosling has all the gifts * Sunday Times *

Paula Gosling was born in Detroit and moved permanently to England in 1964. She worked as a copywriter and a freelance copy consultant before becoming a full-time writer in 1979. She published her first novel, A Running Duck, in 1974. This won the John Creasey Award for the best first novel of the year and Monkey Puzzle, the first in her Jack Stryker series, won a Gold Dagger. She is a past Chairman of the CWA.

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ISBN 13	9781509855285
ISBN 10	1509855289
Title	A Running Duck
Author	Paula Gosling
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pan Macmillan
Year published	2017-12-14
Number of pages	286
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