CUT AND RUN

It doesn't get much better than having Dick Hill read a Ridley Pearson thriller. Hill, who can always be counted on for a solid performance, is downright exceptional in this one. Right from the start, Pearson sets a frenetic pace--and never lets it slow. A deputy U.S. Marshall, who is a half-step ahead of the Mob, tracks his former love who disappeared into the federal Witness Protection Program six years earlier. As the lawman encounters crisis after crisis, listeners are always on the edge. Additionally, Hill takes care to develop every nuance he can in the few ruminative sequences of this story. It sounds like he enjoyed this reading as much as the listener. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/SEP 05]