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Run for Your Life (Line novel)

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Run For Your Life
First edition
AuthorLionel Davidson
LanguageEnglish
GenreChildren’s novel
PublisherJonathan Cape
Publication date
1966
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages153 pp

Run For Your Life (known in the US as Soldier and Me) is a children's adventure novel by Lionel Davidson writing as David Line, first published in 1966. An English boy, Woolcott, and his friend Szolda (whom he calls Soldier) are on the run because Szolda has overheard two men plotting a murder. Filmed as a TV series in 1974 using the US title Soldier and Me starring Gerry Sundquist as Woolcott and Richard Willis as Szolda. 9 30 minute episodes made by Granada Television.[1]

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  1. ^ The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama - An Encyclopedia 0851708781 Mark J. Docherty, Alistair D. McGown - 2003 "Gerald Sundquist (Jim Woolcott), Milos Kirek ('Boss'), Derrick O'Connor (Driver), Richard Ireson, Constantin de Goguel (henchmen) Based on the novel Run For Your Life by David Line (first UK publication 1966, Jonathan Cape) Adapted by David ...