Run Jane Run

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Summary: Run Jane Run
Review: 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!

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Summary: Run Jane Run
Review: 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!

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Summary: I love Jane Nichols!
Review: 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?

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Summary: I love Jane Nichols!
Review: 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.

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Summary: Female Bond?...How about female Ludlum?
Review: 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.