Title: Uninspiring paranoid fantasy
Product review: Joseph Garber's "Vertical Run" was a mindless supposed action thriller that fortunately was a very easy read. The plot was a pale and predictable rehash of more polished examples of this genre.47 year old Dave Elliot is a high ranking executive of the Senterex corporation, a successful conglomerate, with offices on the 45th floor of a New York skyscraper. Elliot, a former Green Beret that served in Vietnam, while at work, without warning inexplicably becomes the target of all those he comes in contact with. This bewildering cat and mouse game commences when his boss, owner of Senterex, the pudgy Bernie Levy pulls a loaded gun on Elliot. In short order Elliot discovers that a large mercenary team has been dispatched to find and execute him. Elliot, as expected, uses all his military guile and cunning to evade his pursuers and determine why he has been targeted.Garber certainly did not come close to enticing me to pick up any of his other work.
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