RUN FOR HOME by Sheila Quigley

1985: a man runs for his life - exhausted, wounded, mercilessly hunted by a woman assassin known only as The Head Hunter. At the end he has just enough energy to spit in her face.

2001: sixteen-year-old Kerry Lumsdon runs across the same terrain. She runs to win and she runs to forget. When a headless body is found in the wastelands of the Seahills Estate, Detective Inspector Lorraine Hunt is called in to investigate.

Kerry and Lorraine, different ages and from different worlds, come together when Claire Lumsdon, Kerry's sister, is violently kidnapped - the fourth in a series of abductions of young girls.

Headstrong, wilful and convinced the police can't help, Kerry sets out on a frantic search of her own. But her hunt takes her to a world she never knew existed: a violent underworld; a 16-year-old murder, and, finally, to secrets about her own past which her mother hoped she'd never have to face.

Soft cover, fair condition. The book shows some signs of wear. The paper is browning.