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""This book can and should be read as a beautifully written memoir. When Daniel Voll ends up in Nick Nolte's pajamas or sharing a bed with a militia leader preparing for civil war, witnessing Nelson Mandela's inauguration, and so much more, you know no one else could have lived this life or rendered it with such captivating prose that it feels more like watching the movie than reading."" -Lawrence O'Donnell, MSNBC ""Voll puts you on the front lines-whether he's hanging with a Bosnian warlord, an Iraqi hunter of terrorists, an 82nd Airborne white supremacist, the father of the H-bomb, or his wife during childbirth. Exciting reading."" -Oliver Stone ""Shocking and irrefutable reporting . . . a portrait of a world coming apart at the seams."" -Mark Warren, 2025 Pulitzer Prize Winner ""Daniel Voll approaches all his subjects-from Malibu movie stars to Serbian war criminals-with a true storyteller's eye. His literary journalism belongs to the best tradition of magazine writing-meticulous, provocative, deeply human, and always compelling. My favorite of this rich collection is an extraordinary piece on a pair of incestuous siblings that is at once compassionate and devastating."" -Patricia Evangelista, author of Some People Need Killing: "" A Memoir of Murder in My Country"" ""Unblinking dispatches that stand the test of time, and that remain as fresh, compelling, and relevant as when first published. Voll lets the story come to him, without preconception or judgment. The reader is always there, a fly on the wall to his fly on the wall. Be warned that Voll's characters may take up residence in your mind for weeks."" -Kevin Sack, New York Times bestselling author of Mother Emanuel: Two Centuries of Race, Resistance, and Forgiveness in One Charleston Church ""Hold on to your hats . . . these are ripping yarns!"" -David Mamet ""Voll is crazy and we're lucky for it. This journalist has a compulsion for putting himself in the most dangerous places, getting a story, and making it out alive-giving readers astonishing tales of life on the fringes with murderous antiabortionists, mass murderers, and nazis within the US military. He even transforms the pro forma ""celebrity profile"" into what would work as a fictional short story were he not writing about real people. In each of the pieces in On the Run, Voll raises journalism to the level of art."" -Michael Ruhlman, New York Times bestselling author of Soul of a Chef ""As a reporter, Daniel Voll has the gift to gain the confidence and trust of the most reluctant, seemingly unapproachable subjects. Unafraid of the darkness, Voll guides us through mysterious parts of the human experience with an unceasing desire to see things as they are. Which is always more than first appears. There is an undeniable moral core that informs each of these stories."" -Alex Belth, editor of What Makes Sammy Jr. Run? Classic Celebrity Journalism Volume 1 ""On The Run is not a traditional collection of journalism. It is a book of nonfiction short stories, written as if by a recording angel. Daniel Voll may choose ethnic-cleansers, aspiring assassins and eccentric actors as his subjects, but he never treats them as anything but people, and so is able to bring ""them to dangerous and funny life without the usual insulation of authorial judgement. These are stories stripped of journalistic apparatus, and hence they are the finest kind of journalism; they take care not to offer explanations, and hence they explain everything."" -Tom Junod, author of In the Days of My Youth I Was Told What It Means to Be a Man

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Daniel Voll is an award-winning journalist who has written for Esquire, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. He has also written and produced television, films, and documentaries.

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