title: The Thief-Taker: Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner
author:  T.F. Banks 
description: <b>Penzler Pick, <a href="/exec/obidos/tg/feature/-/227863/${0}">November 2001</a>:</b> The first in a new series called "Memoirs of a Bow Street Runner," this well-executed historical draws readers back into the London of the early 19th century, when hackney coaches fought for space with brewery carts, horse-drawn chaises, peddlers' wagons, and milling throngs on the city's rough-and-tumble streets.
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  ## Thief River Falls Run
  
  
    
  
  
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  _( Endworld - 2 )_
  
  
  
  
  
  ### David L. Robbins
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A ruthless killing machine and the leader of the Alpha Triad, Blade must lead
  his team of professional warriors on a mission to retrieve medical supplies
  from the Twin Cities.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## David Robbins
  
  
  ## THIEF RIVER FALLS RUN
  
  
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  _To Joshua,_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  _for all the happiness_
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Chapter One
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The buckskin-clad gunman crouched and spun, his hands dropping to his pearl-
  handled revolvers, one in a leather holster on each hip, his long blond locks
  waving in the wind, his keen blue eyes scanning the field below him, searching
  for the source of the noise he had just heard.
  
  
  Someone had coughed.
  
  
  A full moon illuminated the field, kept cleared of all brush, trees, and other
  vegetation to prevent any foes, human or otherwise, from covertly a