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Run Paperback – March 19, 2011

by Blake Crouch (Author)
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 5,609 ratings
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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.
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    288 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    March 19, 2011
  4. Dimensions
    6 x 0.65 x 9 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    1460974425
  6. ISBN-13
    978-1460974421
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (March 19, 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1460974425
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1460974421
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.65 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 5,609 ratings

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Blake Crouch

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Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include the New York Times bestseller Dark Matter, and the internationally bestselling Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. His latest book is Recursion, a sci-fi thriller about memory, and will be published in June 2019. He lives in Colorado.

To learn more about what he is doing, check out his website, www.blakecrouch.com, follow him on Twitter - @blakecrouch1 - or on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/blakecrouchauthor

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I started with Desert Places and Locked Doors, and I'm now Devouring everything Crouch and Kilborn write! I just finished Run, and it was exhilarating! Every so often I had to stop and take a deep breath because you're right there with the Colclough family. I absolutely COULD NOT stop reading! I've been a die hard Stephen King fan, but alas, he's been replaced! If you like this one, you should read all of his others like I'm doing!
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Aaron P. Lazar
5.0 out of 5 stars A Beautifully Written and Narrated Nightmare
Reviewed in the United States on October 5, 2014
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The following is a review from the audio book:

Q. Would you consider the audio edition of Run to be better than the print version?

A. Yes. When the narrator is as good as Phil Gagante, there's no question that the story comes alive in the audio book version. I'm certain I would have loved the read, too, but this was an outstanding production I highly recommend.

Q. Who was your favorite character and why?

A. As a father, this book terrified and thrilled me. I related to Jack (main character, husband to Dee, father of Natalie and Cole) so well that I was tethered to this audio book night and day. My worst fears were developed in this story of terror, loss, and survival. I often imagine what I'd do if I couldn't care for my wife, daughters, or grandchildren. The idea of someone coming across the yard to kill them is horrifying, as is the idea of them starving to death or dying of thirst. How would I react? Would I become a killer to save my family? How clever would I be when it came to surviving with no tools, no access to a car, no money, no food...would I be able to do it as well as Jack did in RUN?

Q. Which character – as performed by Phil Gigante – was your favorite?

A. Again, the character of Jack was beautifully portrayed. Although this is a thriller/horror story, the deep love of a man for his wife and children shone through with the talent of the author and actor. Wow, so well done!

Q. Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

A. Yes. I won't mention the graphic parts, which grossed me out (I'm not a horror reader normally, but I fell for this author's style in PINES and had to read more!) I related so well to the father - I was tense and scared for him and his family the entire time. Of course I knew it was fiction, but it affected me on such a primal level, I couldn't sleep!

Q. Any additional comments?

A. Kudos to Mr. Crouch for his tight, suspenseful writing, superb scene painting, and natural dialog. There is not one moment where Crouch dropped the tension. RUN was a phenomenal roller coaster ride!
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Linda June
4.0 out of 5 stars Hold on to Your Saddlehorn!
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2015
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There is nothing easy about running from the zombie apocalypse. Although the zombie-types (ZT) are not exactly zombies, hence the rather surprising ending, they are close enough to keep the heroes on the run in this wild tale of America-gone-mad, SHTF overnight, with no help from abroad, except in southern Canada. The setting of the book was especially fun me because I live in Colorado and the action passes through Western Colorado, my favorite place on the planet.

What I like about the story is that if you had to collect your family with little or no time to plan and get out of Dodge fast, this could easily be what happens to you. You try to get your SUV packed with as much food, water and camping gear that you can in spite of confused children who act just like children, in spite of a wife who prefers denial rather than action, not knowing where the heck you are going to go, and not even knowing what the ZTs are up to, and all you encounter is bad news everywhere. I can sure see it panning out the way Blake Crouch imagined it.

The heroes have to leave Albuquerque with whatever they can quickly stuff in the back of their Range Rover because roving gangs of ZT are killing people on a list that they are announcing over the radio and the heroes discover they are on the list, too. Woefully under-prepared, the family sets out northbound, heading for the Canadian border. On the way, they must kill or be killed, hide, travel by night, avoid small groups and long caravans of ZT who immediately pursue them if they are spotted, scavenge for food and supplies, abandon the SUV and go overland by foot, and encounter good guys and guys who are not ZT but are not all that good either. It is fast-paced, breathless, even.

Crouch writes very well. The story flows and it is hard to put down, except that I had to so I could catch my own breath once in a while. My only little issue is that adventure stories like these so often have the characters performing at such super-human levels of endurance that it pushes past the boundaries of credulity. I prefer stories where the characters are actually real people, not supermen. I know that will-to-survive heroics make for good reading, but this reviewer prefers realism in these kinds of stories. People who have not had a drink of water in three days are really not going to perform such feats against the enemy when, in reality, they would be unable to even move much. But that is my only problem. Otherwise, it was a great read.
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Jackie
5.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and Entertaining
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2012
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The overall plot was somewhat similar to other books -- something turning people into mass killers. However, the cause was somewhat different and not fully explained, but left up to the reader to flesh out. That is the only thing that I might have changed, if it were left up to me. I would have explained the cause a little more. One would think that this book might be a little boring, since the entire story is essentially the tail of a family on a continuous run for their lives. However, Crouch makes his main characters very engaging, ones that you want to root for! You become totally engaged in seeing if they make it to safety. The final outcome was somewhat truncated, but the more I thought about it, the more satisfied I was. I finally felt that I probably wouldn't have liked it if it had been drawn out more. I felt the ending was ultimately very satisfying. This book was more bloody than the previous book by Crouch that I had read. So be aware of that when deciding whether or not to read this one. However, I didn't find the violence overly gratuitous. The most interesting facet of this story revolves around what any reasonable man or woman would do to survive and protect his/her family in extremely violent circumstances. The male and female lead characters start out in the book never contemplating the kind of violence they end up facing. So they are totally unprepared emotionally for what they will face and the decisions they will have to make. They are estranged in the beginning but come back to each other in the end. That was very satisfying. Again, I like this author and will continue to read his books.
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Ivonize Dictakis
2.0 out of 5 stars Run
Reviewed in Brazil on August 7, 2017
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Personagens meio genéricos, perguntas que espera-se , sejam respondidas mas que com o decorrer do livro não são abordadas e depois de algum tempo toda a narrativa se torna repetitiva. Não foi um dos melhores livros de Blake Crouch
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Daniel
5.0 out of 5 stars Maybe my favourite fiction book I’ve ever read.
Reviewed in Australia on August 26, 2021
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This is the first time I’ve ever bothered putting words in the Amazon review box on my phone but … this was such a good book I feel like I need to. Such incredible storytelling.
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Amanda Wozny
5.0 out of 5 stars and will suck you into them
Reviewed in Canada on December 22, 2015
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Crouch's books are eery, exciting, and will suck you into them. So good!
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A. C. Magencio
2.0 out of 5 stars Me esperaba mucho más
Reviewed in Spain on September 4, 2016
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Tras leer la genial Dark Matter, me esperaba mucho más de este libro. La premisa de la que parte me llamaba mucho la atención y empieza bien, pero poco a poco se desinfla y se hace muy repetitivo y aburrido. Me ha costado mucho trabajo terminarlo. No parece escrito por la misma persona que escribió Dark Matter, uno de los mejores libros que he leído en los últimos años
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5.0 out of 5 stars Run, an awesome read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 23, 2012
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The blurb on this book was enough to make me want to read it. The fact that it was free was an added bonus.

Normally I would not read a book as soon as I downloaded it, but this one just screamed at me to read it. The story was so riveting that I stayed up all night reading it; it was that good. It was a nail biting, tense all action read. It just did not let up from the first page to the last.

Although at times I was a bit irritated with Dee, who was a Dr, but spent most of the book asking Jack stupid questions, I think she redeemed herself when she was forced more than once to put her family before her own feelings. The other thing that I had against her was her reaction to Jack telling her that he thought of having an affair, whilst she was in the midst of her own long-term affair. He though of it, but did not act on it. She thought and acted on it and expected her husband to be all right with it yet could not stand the thought that he was thinking of doing the same thing as her. She also conveniently forgot that the man she was having the affair with was the first person to want to kill her family.

I was more impressed with Naomi, Cole and most importantly, Jack, who was forced to man up almost from the get go. I loved the way Jack changed from someone who was just drifting in the good times, to a man of action when the world went to hell in a hand basket. His sole focus then became how to keep his family alive, even if he did not know who were the good guys or bad guys until they acted. When he found himself in a life or death situation, he was calm enough to act in a way that meant he would live. The good thing that came out of this disaster is the fact that a family that had lost track of itself found itself as a result of disaster that only seems to have affected the US.

I would have been great it if the author had spent a couple of chapters on the aftermath just before the end of the book. Otherwise, the whole storyline, pace and interactions of the characters was on target. What I would like to see is this book translated on to the big screen, just to have a visual of it, rather than the written `visual'.
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