Runaway Black Author:Ed McBain Across the scarred and broken pavements ran Johnny Lane, and his bleeding arm...Johnny Lane, looking for a friend to help him, a girl to shelter him, a hole to hide in...through the night city he ran, a city where violence is casual and when twilight falls even the cops get nervous. — And as he ran, Johnny Lane discovered that...even if he got fr... more »ee of this murder charge...he was doomed to run for the rest of his life through a ghetto of neon and snowbirds and squalor.« less