SOURCE: A review of Nathan's Run, in Kirkus Reviews, Vol. LXIII, No. 24, December 15, 1995, p. 1718.

[In the following review, the critic describes the ending of Nathan's Run as "predictable but undeniably pulse-pounding."]

[In Nathan's Run] a preteen locked in a juvenile detention facility for car theft kills a supervisor, breaks out, and leads the police on a chase from Virginia to Pennsylvania.

At least that's what it looks like—though actually Nathan Bailey is as innocent as the next 12-year-old. He stole the car only to get away from his uncle Mark, the hated guardian who's secretly after his inheritance; he killed the supervisor only in self-defense; and he's being pursued not only by the red-faced police but by a contract killer as well. Nathan doesn't know about the contract killer, but he blurts out the rest of his story at the first opportunity to Denise Carpenter, the self-styled...