During the course of running the New York City Marathon, The Blue Line’s narrator finds himself remembering another marathon run years earlier to evade capture after an act of sabotage. He also struggles with the compromises that he has made in the years since then as he decides whether or not to assist an ex-girlfriend in another similar action. A richly detailed novel of moral deliberation, designed to include hundreds of images lining the actual route of the New York City Marathon run.