Three of the best thriller novels Blake Crouch has ever written, all in one volume at discounted price.
1. R U N...
For fans of Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Thomas Harris, picture this: a landscape of American genocide...
5 D A Y S A G O A rash of bizarre murders swept the country… Senseless. Brutal. Seemingly unconnected. A cop walked into a nursing home and unloaded his weapons on elderly and staff alike. A mass of school shootings. Prison riots of unprecedented brutality. Mind-boggling acts of violence in every state.
4 D A Y S A G O The murders increased ten-fold…
3 D A Y S A G O The President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace…
2 D A Y S A G O The killers began to mobilize…
Y E S T E R D A Y All the power went out…
T O N I G H T They’re reading the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System. You are listening over the battery-powered radio on your kitchen table, and they’ve just read yours.
Your name is Jack Colclough. You have a wife, a daughter, and a young son. You live in Albuquerque, New Mexico. People are coming to your house to kill you and your family. You don’t know why, but you don’t have time to think about that any more.
You only have time to….
R U N
2. S N O W B O U N D...
For Will Innis and his daughter, Devlin, the loss was catastrophic. Every day for the past five years, they wonder where she is, if she is—Will’s wife, Devlin’s mother—because Rachael Innis vanished one night during an electrical storm on a lonely desert highway, and suspected of her death, Will took his daughter and fled.
Now, Will and Devlin live under different names in another town, having carved out a new life for themselves as they struggle to maintain some semblance of a family.
When one night, a beautiful, hard-edged FBI agent appears on their doorstep, they fear the worst, but she hasn’t come to arrest Will. “I know you’re innocent,” she tells him, “because Rachael wasn’t the first…or the last.” Desperate for answers, Will and Devlin embark on a terrifying journey that spans four thousand miles from the desert southwest to the wilds of Alaska, heading unaware into the heart of a nightmare, because the truth is infinitely worse than they ever imagined.
3. A B A N D O N...
On Christmas Day in 1893, every man, woman and child in a remote gold mining town disappeared, belongings forsaken, meals left to freeze in vacant cabins; and not a single bone was ever found. One hundred thirteen years later, two backcountry guides are hired by a history professor and his journalist daughter to lead them into the abandoned mining town so that they can learn what happened. With them is a psychic, and a paranormal photographer—as the town is rumored to be haunted. A party that tried to explore the town years ago was never heard from again. What this crew is about to discover is that twenty miles from civilization, with a blizzard bearing down, they are not alone, and the past is very much alive.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Blake Crouch is the author of over a dozen bestselling suspense, mystery, and horror novels. His short fiction has appeared in numerous short story anthologies, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Cemetery Dance, and many other publications. Much of his work, including the Wayward Pines series, has been optioned for TV and film. Blake lives in Colorado.
Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. He is the author of the forthcoming novel, Dark Matter, for which he is writing the screenplay for Sony Pictures. His international-bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy was adapted into a television series for FOX, executive produced by M. Night Shyamalan, that was Summer 2015’s #1 show. With Chad Hodge, Crouch also created Good Behavior, the TNT television show starring Michelle Dockery based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He has written more than a dozen novels that have been translated into over thirty languages and his short fiction has appeared in numerous publications including Ellery Queen and Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine. Crouch lives in Colorado with his family.
This trilogy of unrelated stories was definitely a mixed bag, and it's clear how much Blake Crouch has evolved as a writer since penning these. Snowbound was the least interesting of the three stories. It had potential, but I just didn't care enough about the characters to keep my interest. Abandon should have been so much better. It had an interesting mystery at its center and a few compelling characters, but the poor pacing and abrupt jumping between present and past was off putting and undermined the suspense. Run, on the other hand, I could not put down. Relatable characters in an impossible situation, a fast-paced story, and plenty of tension and suspense made for quite the page-turner. The ending was a bit abrupt, but it didn't hurt the story, just left me wanting more. Taken together, the Fear Trilogy is well-worth your time, whether you are already a fan of Blake Crouch or not.
Very entertaining. Some extremely graphic violence in each of the books in the collection, so probably not for the faint-hearted. My only criticism would be that Abandon (second in the collection) is probably about a hundred pages too long. Run drags on a bit, too. Worth reading.
A fast paced thriller that kept the momentum up throughout. The first book, Snowbound, was a solid 4 stars. Looking forward to completing the trilogy in '26.
Getting only 3 stars cause Run was such a mess. Going to guess that one is one of Blake Crouch's earliest works. The other two stories were pretty good and I'm definitely going to be reading more of this author =)
Each story an excellent tale, grabs your interest and holds to the very end. Anyone who is a science fiction lover, put these three novels on your must read list.