Book Description:
Imagine if you had to confront your greatest fear…
EMERSON RABETTE has a phobia about travelling on underground trains, so when he is involved in a car accident his worst nightmare is about to come true.
A middle-aged graphic designer and father of one, Emerson’s entire future depends on him reaching an important business meeting. Without an alternative method of transport, he has to confront his biggest fear.
Things immediately go wrong when Emerson’s Obsessive Compulsive Disorder kicks in and his fellow passengers become angry at the way he is acting. Thankfully a young woman called Winter comes to his rescue and agrees to help him reach his destination.
Once on the train, she thinks her job is done. But Emerson can’t help feeling he is being watched by his fellow passengers, including a soldier, a woman in a hat covered with artificial fruit and a man with a purple goatee beard.
Is it just his paranoia kicking in, or are they all out to get him?
And Winter is taken totally by surprise when Emerson takes flight after reading a message scrawled on the train’s interior.
It simply reads: ‘Run Rabette Run’.
(Rabette Run is Nick Rippington’s fourth book, a standalone psychological thriller. The author’s Boxer Boys trilogy is highly acclaimed and is now available in a digital boxset)
My Thoughts:
Having not read any of this authors books before, I wasn’t quite sure what I was letting myself in for. Now that I have finished my first introduction into his work, well lets just say I will certainly be returning for more!
The story has a shocking start before we then get to know the main character better, as he goes on what should be an uneventful journey for an important meeting. Things start to take a dark and unexpected turn when Emerson enters the underground.
What follows felt like an action thriller as there was no guessing at what was going to happen next. Well you could guess but you will probably be wrong. It’s hard to go into to much detail as I fear I would spoil it for others. This is one that readers definitely need to go into blind.
The ending was quite a sombre read that got the emotions going. The author had everything come together really well which I always love. Everything explained and tied up nicely.
Rabette Run is a fun, unexpected page turner of a read, that reeled me in and didn’t let go. I could easily see this on the big screen as the story alone was a compulsive, edge of your seat read. I really enjoyed Emerson’s and Winter’s characters and they made it an even more enjoyable reading experience.
My thanks to the author for an advanced readers copy of this book. All opinions are my own and not biased in anyway.
Rabette Run is available to purchase from Amazon.
NICK RIPPINGTON is the award-winning author of the Boxer Boys series of gangland crime thrillers.
Based in London, UK, Nick was the last-ever Welsh Sports Editor of the now defunct News of The World, writing his debut release Crossing The Whitewash after being made redundant with just two days notice after Rupert Murdoch closed down Europe’s biggest-selling tabloid in 2011.
On holiday at the time, Nick was never allowed back in the building, investigators sealing off the area with crime scene tape and seizing his computer as they investigated the phone-hacking scandal, something which took place a decade before Nick joined the paper. His greatest fear, however, was that cops would uncover the secrets to his Fantasy Football selections.
Handed the contents of his desk in a black bin bag in a murky car park, deep throat style, Nick was at a crossroads – married just two years earlier and with a wife and 9-month-old baby to support.
With self-publishing booming, he hit on an idea for a UK gangland thriller taking place against the backdrop of the Rugby World Cup and in 2015 produced Crossing The Whitewash, which received an honourable mention in the genre category of the Writers’ Digest self-published eBook awards. Judges described it as “evocative, unique, unfailingly precise and often humorous”.
Follow-up novel Spark Out, a prequel set at the time of Margaret Thatcher and the Falklands War, received a Chill With A Book reader award and an IndieBRAG medallion from the prestigious website dedicated to Independent publishers and writers throughout the world. The novel was also awarded best cover of 2017 with Chill With A Book.
The third book in the Boxer Boys series Dying Seconds, a sequel to Crossing The Whitewash, was released in December 2018 and went to the top of the Amazon Contemporary Urban Fiction free charts during a giveaway period of five days. A digital box set, the Boxer Boys Collection, came out in September last year.
Now Nick, 60, is switching direction feeling that, for the moment, the Boxer Boys series has run its course. His latest novel, Rabette Run, will be released in the Spring and Nick says, ‘It is a gritty psychological thriller with twists and turns galore. Think Alice in Wonderland with tanks and guns.’
Married to Liz, When Nick isn’t writing he works as a back bench designer of sports pages on the Daily Star. He has two children – Jemma, 37, and Olivia, 9.
links:
Website: www.theripperfile.com
Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/buckrippers
Twitter: @nickripp
Instagram: @nickrippingtonauthor
Where to find Nick’s books…
Amazon Author Page in the UK:
Amazon Author Page in the US:
bytheletterbookreviews 
Unusual premise for a story, but one that deserves to be read…
LikeLike
It really is unusual. There is so much i want to say about it but have to be really careful so i don’t spoil it for anyone else. x
LikeLiked by 1 person
I think you said just enough to get people’s interest!
LikeLiked by 1 person