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Book Review By Nick Warren
The Runaway by Martina Cole

A very disturbing but highly compelling and exciting story of two runaway children, Cathy Connor and Eammon Docherty who leave home, become forced into care, abscond from the children's home and become drawn into the worlds of underage prostitution and London's gangland respectively. As the years go by, both children grow up in their illegal professions, gaining their reputations, and their paths will cross once again with terrifying consequences.


Plot & Themes
Tone of story -
Time/era of story:
Kid or adult book? - Adult or Young Adult Book
The crook is.... - criminal's rise in a crime organization - criminals killing each other - Get treasure/money from another criminal -
Crime Thriller Yes
Crime plotlets:
Is MAIN CHARACTER an EVIL criminal? Yes
General Crime (including known murderer) Yes

Main Character
Gender - Female
Profession/status:
Age: - a teen
Unusual characteristics:

Main Adversary
Identity: - an organization
Age: - long-lived adults
Profession/status:
Motive of antagonist - kicks
The antagonists are: - gangs

Setting
United States Yes
The US: - Northeast
Europe Yes
European country: - England/UK
City? Yes
City: - New York - London - Dirty, dangerous (like New York) - dangerous - wealthy - - rude people
Misc setting - prison - resort/hotel - fancy mansion

Writing Style
Accounts of torture and death? - moderately detailed references to deaths
Explicit sex in book? Yes
What kind of sex: - descript of kissing - touching of anatomy - licking - impregnation/reproduction - actual description of sex - descript. of breasts - descript. of male nudity - rape (yeech!)
Unusual forms of death - asphyxiation - dropped from large heights - rough sex - run over - drowned - perforation--bullets - exploded into bits
Unusual form of death? Yes
Amount of dialog - roughly even amounts of descript and dialog
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