title: Sprinter:  A Novel of Suspense
author:  Bruce Jones 
description: A derivative woman-in-periler pits a mad computer hacker against a former federal agent whose hobby is marathon running. John Handler, the cool psychokiller identified as ``the tall man,'' is a really bad guy: Not only does he murder an innocent FBI staffer in Washington and asphyxiate a lonely San Diego lady with a kiss, but he also apparently blows up the feckless cat belonging to beautiful, divorced, guilt-ridden ex-ATF agent Jeni Starbuck. Things turn even worse when it begins to look as if the shadowy Handler is not just a psychotic thug but the pyrotechnic assassin known as the Solobomber. Starbuck, who left the ATF after the Waco/Branch Davidian holocaust, lost her daughter Molly in what she believes was a revenge bombing, and, when she isn't marathon-running, works off her guilt at a children's AIDS hospice. She can't figure out why, of all the beautiful women in the world, Handler plies her, and her alone, with intimate statements about herself (spoken with the tedious, aristocratic prolixity of a James Bond villain), with news that her daughter may be alive, and with sadistic challenges requiring her to run to specific San Diego locales within a set number of minutes to prevent him from blowing them up. This fourth thriller from Jones (Maximum Velocity, 1996, etc.) is set in a near future where most people calculate, communicate, and entertain with computers equipped with the Sprinter 9000 chip. It takes Jeni a little too long to figure out, after a Walkman-size Sprinter 9000 computer arrives unsolicited at her doorstep, that the chip holds the secret of Handler's power. But with the help of FBI agent Paul Miller, she unmasks Handler, puts guilt behind her, admits her interest in Millerand even gets her cat back. An unsurprising assembly of genre clichs. -- <i>Copyright 1998, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.</i>
zlib_text: Daring the Neighborhood
  Men of Rugged Heights, Volume 3
  Jaylen Florian
  Published by Jaylen Florian, 2018.
  
  This is a work of fiction. Similarities to real people, places, or events are
  entirely coincidental.
  DARING THE NEIGHBORHOOD
  First edition. December 14, 2018.
  Copyright © 2018 Jaylen Florian.
  Written by Jaylen Florian.
  
  Table of Contents
  Title Page
  Copyright Page
  Books by Jaylen Florian
  Chapter 1
  Chapter 2
  Chapter 3
  Chapter 4
  Chapter 5
  Chapter 6
  Chapter 7
  Chapter 8
  Chapter 9
  Chapter 10
  Chapter 11
  Chapter 12
  Author's Note
  
  Books by Jaylen Florian
  ore novels, novellas, short stories, and bundles by Jaylen Florian
  include:
  Antonio's Mask
  Arousing Euphoria: Rugby Team Bundle
  Baseball Star's Gift
  Cobra De Capello
  Covet
  Garage
  Ghost Town
  Guarding His Fortunes
  Guarding His Jewels
  Hollywood Tease
  Lured
  Macho
  Patrolling the Neighborhood
  Prowling the Neighborhood
  Rugby Test: Hypnotic Temptation
  Scorching the Neighborhood
  Serving the Neighborhood
  Uncovering Machismo
  Untame
  Uplifting Sports R