Runner Hawk

Mesmerising, poetic and a cognitive blast

There is a dark magic to the world Egan explores

A richly atmospheric novel with a dark revelation at its heart

Egan subtly and intelligently sows the seeds of Leo’s reality through the narrative, with Leo as the narrator, to give more immediacy. The ethical and moral implications are similarly woven through the storyline so that his position as an author becomes clear without the need for literary hammer blows *****

With consummate skill, Michael Egan draws you into Leo’s disturbed and disturbing experience, and makes it riveting. Runner Hawk combines the sensibility of a true poet with the narrative power of a fine novelist. It may be bleak but it is also beautiful, in word and thought. It is devastatingly brilliant. It runs. It flies.

A sophisticated novel with a challenging ending. It’s the story of 17-year-old Leo who finds time doing strange things, and then runs out of it. Is about rite-of-passage relationships including a near-consummation, a romance involving a painful mystery, and the mentorship of a rakish literary uncle.