Short, but still awfully boring. I haven't watched any of the film adaptations but I sure do hope the dialogue isn't anything like in the book. The protagonist finds himself on the run after being wrongly accused of murder, while the real culprits are also looking for him vehemently. There's a lot of running around, a lot of luck involved and always some shadowy figure looming close by. But it doesn't amount to anything much in the end. Yawn!