Runaway Heart » (Abridged, 4 cassettes, 6 hrs.)

An Emmy Award-winning writer and producer of such TV hits as The Rockford Files, Wiseguy, and The A-Team, Stephen J. Cannell has also locked up a successful career as a crime novelist with his popular line of Shane Scully detective thrillers.

The New York Times bestselling author combines medical sciences and action-packed suspense in this stunningly original thriller.

Library Journal

Barbra Streisand, a mutant monkey, alien DNA, Dred Scott, Donald Trump, hush-hush government shenanigans--somehow in the hands of veteran TV writer Cannell these all come together and actually work. With adjectives, metaphors, and similes jostling each other for equal time in a sentence, Cannell tells the tale of a liberal do-gooder lawyer with a bum heart who heads something called the Institute for Planetary Justice. The lawyer has just been laughed out of court for trying to protect monarch butterflies when he finds himself and his equally ambitious daughter in one heck of a military conspiracy that lands him smack in the middle of Area 51. Reader Nick Sullivan, who has voiced other Cannell novels, brings the right amount of humor to these characters and infuses them with personalities without resorting to over-the-top vocalizations. Despite the sappy title, this book will find a ready audience in all public libraries. Recommended.--Joseph L. Carlson, Allan Hancock Coll., Lompoc, CA Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.