Book Review: ‘You Can Run: A Novel’ By Karen Cleveland

Jill has it all at the moment as she has a job with the CIA, a loving husband and an adorable six month old son named Drew. Everyday at her lunch break she checks on him via the website. But on this day she doesn’t see him. And then she gets a call saying that ‘we have your son’ and no harm will come to him if you do what we tell you. They want her to approve a new informant named Falcon and she will get her son back right away. And she can’t tell anyone. She does what she’s told and gets her son back right away. She quits her job and they move to Florida. Things are going good and four years later and another kid, Jill gets roped back into what happened by a reporter named Alex from the Washington Post. She’s been given tips about Falcon and what is really going on. It leads to Jill, murders and her kids being taken again because they know that Jill and Alex and digging into the what really happened and who Falcon really is. It’s a race against time to find the kids and expose the bad guy in the CIA.

This is an exciting story from start to finish. Really well-written strong female charactes and a story that keeps you on the edge of your seat right up to the shocking ending. A great book for Labor Day weekend.

You can pick up You Can Run in stores on Tuesday, August 31st from Ballantine.