Run (34 page)

This book is dedicated to John S. Hummell, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation: My son. Walk calmly in the shadows, fearing both the evil and the good; all too often, they are the same.

Douglas E. Winter is an attorney in Washington, D.C. He is a member of the National Book Critics Circle and the editor of
Prime Evil
, a best-selling anthology of horror and suspense fiction.
Run
is his first novel.