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Flanagan’s Run

By: Tom McNab
Narrated by: Rupert Degas
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During the Depression, the ebullient American entrepreneur Charles Flanagan assembles 2,000 runners from all corners of the earth to run from Los Angeles to New York for prize-money of $150,000. Flanagan’s Trans-America runners face 3,000 miles, across the Mojave desert and the frozen Rockies, running a daily average of 50 miles for three months. The American sports establishment, however, is desperate to crush what it sees as a professional challenge to the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Every day is therefore a struggle for survival, for Flanagan himself as well as the runners. Flanagan’s Run is an epic tale, and a testimony to the strength of the human spirit.

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Suggested this book to my book group, was so pleased that most loved it and were delighted at recommendation. it's always such a thing to present one book a year to a select reading group and this was my choice.

it might take a while to get into the characters and what is happening then suddenly you find yourself sucked into an epic tale of running through all sorts of scenarios, landscapes, characters, shenanigans with Flanagan. :)

Fabulous book, brilliantly read - ahh Rupert Degas

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amazing story, I couldn't stop listening. the narrator is by far the best I've ever listened to

wow

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This engaging story is superbly narrated by Rupert Degas who, yet again, brings characters to life by endowing each with a unique identity reflecting their background, age and gender.

Flanagan’s Run, which is set in the great depression, is a fairly light-hearted yarn charting the progress of a handful of runners who attempt the heroic task of completing the gruelling trans-America foot race in search of fortune and fame. Perfect holiday reading.

Engaging story, brilliantly narrated

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Loved see this as an audio book. Read the paper copy many years ago, it works just as well as something to listen to. Rupert Degas is fabulous as the narrator.

Great listening

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I've read this book several times - one of a very few I often return to - but I only just discovered it as an audio book. Everyone sounded as I had imagined.

Excellent

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