A few four letter word..., but the story was thrilling, non stop action, and twisting plots. A excellent story, of course by the wonderful John Saul. I say this story is a 5!
Falsely convicted of a brutual crime, college student Jeff Converse sees his future vanishing before his eyes. But someone has other plans for Jeff, in a place far deadlier than any penitentary. Soon Jeff finds himself beneath the teeming streets of Manhattan, in a hidden landscape of twisting tunnels and forgotten subterranean chambers. Here, an invisible population of the homeless, the desperate, and the mad has carved out its own shadow society. But they are not alone. For someone has made this forsaken civilization a private killing ground. Now, with no weapon but his wits, and an unimaginable threat lurking around every dark corner, Jeff must somehow move heaven and earth to escape from a living hell.
This is about a college student Jeff Converse who was convicted of a brutal crime, He ends up living under the streets of Manhatten and is being hunt down and he has to use his wits and cunning to escape from a living hell.