Ruth Run, Kaufman - B

                 Ruth is a young, brilliant woman in the tech world and an accomplished thief, with $250M hidden around the world. One night, somewhere in her extensive computer system, an alarm goes off, she abandons her apartment and follows her 'go' plan. She grabs her somewhat nitwit of a co-conspirator, Thom, and heads north from Menlo Park. They agree to go their separate ways in Sacramento. Unbeknownst to her, the man following her, Mike, met her years ago, was astounded by her criminal skills, and has been surveilling her for seven years for some unnamed government agency.  With the government on her heels, she slips into the world of cross-country truckers, religious fanatics and hard core libertarians. The chase is a full on page turner extraordinaire, but, as is so often the case with debut novels, the finale is a bit flat.