Survive the Night
A Novel
(Sprache: Englisch)
It's November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana's in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger...
Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger...
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It's November 1991. George H. W. Bush is in the White House, Nirvana's in the tape deck, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer. For Josh, it's to help care for his sick father. Or so he says. Like the Hitchcock heroine she's named after, Charlie has her doubts. There's something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn't seem to want Charlie to see inside the car's trunk. As they travel an empty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly worried Charlie begins to think she's sharing a car with the Campus Killer. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie's suspicion merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?
What follows is a game of cat-and-mouse played out on night-shrouded roads and in neon-lit parking lots, during an age when the only call for help can be made on a pay phone and in a place where there's nowhere to run. In order to win, Charlie must do one thing-survive the night.
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INT. DORM ROOM-DAYStaying isn't an option.
That's why Charlie has agreed to get into a car with a perfect stranger.
She's promised Robbie-promised herself as well-that she'll bolt if anything about the situation strikes her as shady. One can't be too careful. Not these days.
Not after what happened to Maddy.
Charlie has already steeled herself for flight, mentally listing all the scenarios in which she should run. If the car looks battered and/or has tinted windows. If someone else is inside, no matter the excuse. If he seems too eager to depart or, on the flip side, not hurried enough. She's sworn-to Robbie, to herself, to Maddy, whom she still sometimes talks to even though she's now two months in the grave-that a single shiver of apprehension will send her running back to the dorm.
She doubts it will come to that. Because he seems nice. Friendly. Definitely not the type of guy who'd do the things that had been done to Maddy and the others.
Besides, he's not a stranger. Not completely. They'd met once before, in front of the ride board in the campus commons, dwarfed by that wall of flyers from students desperate to get home and those eager to drive them there in exchange for gas money. Charlie had just put up her own flyer-carefully printed, her phone number placed on each meticulously cut tab-when he appeared at her side.
"You're going to Youngstown?" he said, his gaze flicking from her to the flyer and back again.
Charlie hesitated before responding. A post-Maddy habit. She never willingly engaged with people she didn't know. Not until she had a grasp on their intentions. He could have been making small talk. Or trying to pick her up. Unlikely, but not entirely out of the realm of possibility. It was how she met Robbie, after all. She'd been pretty once, before guilt and grief had sunk their
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claws into her.
"Yeah," she eventually said, after his gaze returned to the ride board, making her decide he was there for the same reason she was. "That where you're heading?"
"Akron," he said.
Hearing that made Charlie stand at attention. Not quite Youngstown, but close enough. A quick stop on the way to his final destination.
"Rider or driver?" she asked.
"Driver. Was hoping to find someone willing to split the cost of gas."
"I could be that someone," she said, letting him look her over, giving him the chance to decide if she was the type of person he'd want to spend hours alone in a car with. She knew what kind of vibe she gave off-an angry dourness that would have made guys like him tell her to smile more if she hadn't looked like she'd punch them for doing so. Doom and gloom hovered over her like a rain cloud.
Charlie studied him right back. He appeared to be a few years older than the typical student, although that could have been a product of his size. He was big. Tall, broad-chested, square-jawed. Wearing jeans and an Olyphant University sweatshirt, he looked, Charlie thought, like the hero of a forties campus comedy. Or the villain in an eighties one.
She assumed he was a grad student like Robbie. One of those people who got a taste for college life and decided they never wanted to leave. But he had nice hair, something Charlie still noticed even though she'd let her own grow limp and scraggly. Great smile, too, which he flashed when he said, "Possibly. When were you looking to leave?"
Charlie gestured to her flyer and the four letters placed all-caps in the dead center of the page.
ASAP
He tore a tab from the bottom of the flyer, leaving a gap that brought to Charlie's mind a missing tooth. The thought made her shudder.
The man placed the torn-off tab in his wallet. "I'll see what I can do."
Charlie hadn't expected a response. It was the mi
"Yeah," she eventually said, after his gaze returned to the ride board, making her decide he was there for the same reason she was. "That where you're heading?"
"Akron," he said.
Hearing that made Charlie stand at attention. Not quite Youngstown, but close enough. A quick stop on the way to his final destination.
"Rider or driver?" she asked.
"Driver. Was hoping to find someone willing to split the cost of gas."
"I could be that someone," she said, letting him look her over, giving him the chance to decide if she was the type of person he'd want to spend hours alone in a car with. She knew what kind of vibe she gave off-an angry dourness that would have made guys like him tell her to smile more if she hadn't looked like she'd punch them for doing so. Doom and gloom hovered over her like a rain cloud.
Charlie studied him right back. He appeared to be a few years older than the typical student, although that could have been a product of his size. He was big. Tall, broad-chested, square-jawed. Wearing jeans and an Olyphant University sweatshirt, he looked, Charlie thought, like the hero of a forties campus comedy. Or the villain in an eighties one.
She assumed he was a grad student like Robbie. One of those people who got a taste for college life and decided they never wanted to leave. But he had nice hair, something Charlie still noticed even though she'd let her own grow limp and scraggly. Great smile, too, which he flashed when he said, "Possibly. When were you looking to leave?"
Charlie gestured to her flyer and the four letters placed all-caps in the dead center of the page.
ASAP
He tore a tab from the bottom of the flyer, leaving a gap that brought to Charlie's mind a missing tooth. The thought made her shudder.
The man placed the torn-off tab in his wallet. "I'll see what I can do."
Charlie hadn't expected a response. It was the mi
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Riley Sager
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- Autor: Riley Sager
- 2021, 336 Seiten, Maße: 16,6 x 23,7 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Dutton
- ISBN-10: 0593183169
- ISBN-13: 9780593183168
- Erscheinungsdatum: 17.07.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
This tale almost reads as an allegory for the lofty demands set upon women, particularly during the young adult years, albeit with an R.L. Stine Fear Street feel, mixed with Hitchcockian noir and all the top music numbers of the nineties.... And it wouldn t be a Sager novel without an ode to films woven throughout, plus multiple twists along the way....The novel satisfies like a summer blockbuster, nearly demands you stay until the final scenes and the lights come up. USA Today
A fast-paced, twisty thriller....A first-rate read....But then, with four final pages, Sager reveals a final surprise that is stunning yet somehow feels exactly right.
Associated Press
With every mile, the tension rises toward a deliciously unbearable pitch.
Good Housekeeping
"Nineties-era nostalgia (Nirvana, pay phones, cassettetapes) paves the way for a truly haunting potential kidnapping story."
Entertainment Weekly
If a scary, creepy, don t-turn-out-the-lights thriller is on your summer reading agenda, who better to turn to than Sager?
CNN
I couldn t put down Survive the Night and I didn t want to try. Riley Sager s terrific heroine Charlie Jordan starts this thriller on the ride of her life and the action accelerates on every page, through twists and turns into the darkness. A high-octane narrative fueled by intensity, emotion, and danger, Survive the Night puts Riley Sager in the driver s seat of modern crime fiction.
Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of What Happened to the Bennetts
Noir at its best! This one-sitting-read of a thriller will grab you in the opening pages
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and simply not let go until the very (and very shocking) end. Author Sager is a master of creating both psychological suspense and richly drawn characters, both good, bad and somewhere in the middle. Bravo!
Jeffery Deaver, author of The Final Twist
"Riley Sager's premise is bone-chilling what if you caught a ride from a guy who could be a serial killer? and his writing is propulsive and gripping. Woven throughout is a clever nod to classic movies, which adds to the intricate architecture of this absolutely terrific book."
Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of You Are Not Alone
"The perfect summer binge!"
J.D. Barker, New York Times bestselling author of A Caller's Game
"Sager excels at playing with reader expectations and in concocting plausible, gut-wrenching twists.
Publishers Weekly, starred review
[Sager s novels are] all creepily atmospheric, easy to read without being fluffy, and fun as hell. Each book has also been better and more confident than the last.
Vulture, 46 Books We Can t Wait to Read in 2021
"Sager s signature blend of campy homage and tense thrills is on full display in his new story of suspicion and doubt at 60 miles an hour.
CrimeReads "Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021: Summer Reading Edition"
"Seatbelt mandatory! Like hurtling down a twisty road, Survive the Night is a heart-pounding ride that will keep you guessing at every dizzying turn. Ingenious, surprising, and so much fun."
Taylor Adams, author of No Exit
"Compulsively readable, pulse-poundingly tense with ingenious, gasp-worthy twists, Survive the Night is Hitchcockian film noir magic wrapped inside one of Sager s signature propulsive plots. A story about a ride share gone terribly wrong, this white-knuckle thriller kidnapped me and held me hostage as I raced through to its deliciously satisfying climax.
May Cobb, author of The Hunting Wives
Sager has been turning out one fine thriller after another since Final Girls, his 2017 breakout novel, and this one just might be his best yet. It's certainly his most complex.
Booklist
All of Riley Sager s books take an established horror or thriller trope and give it a smart, knowing twist. This time, it s a creepy hitchhiking situation (with the added bonus of a 90s setting!).
BookPage, 2021 Preview: most anticipated mysteries & thrillers
"A love letter to final girls and badass cinematic heroines, Sager s new tale ripples with taut pacing, nail-biting tension, and a series of twists that will leave you whiplashed. I devoured this book."
Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows
If you ve read any Riley Sager books in the past then you know there are bound to be twists in this story that you won t see coming no matter how hard you try, and Survive the Night is filled with them. Another killer book (pun definitely intended!). I couldn t put this down; it may be Sager s best one yet.
Suspense Magazine
"Riley Sager s scintillating Survive the Night reads like Die Hard in a car.
The Providence Journal, "August Must-Read Thrillers"
Sager s books are always a thrilling treat, and this is absolutely no exception.
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Sager constantly keeps the reader off-kilter with clever twists and turns that are as terrifying as they are believable, while blurring the line between Charlie s experiences and her fantasies.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The action at which we finally arrive makes the long, strange trip more than worthwhile.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Like Charlie, readers will find themselves distrusting their own perceptions as the book navigates an ever-windier route through a dark and dangerous landscape.
Bookreporter
Sager is at the absolute height of his powers The paranoia dripping from every page is palpable, making for a compulsive read.
Murder & Mayhem
"The best way to cool down during the hot summer months? Thrills and chills! Riley Sager is delivering both in his new novel."
Bookish
Riley Sager delivers an utterly convincing, genuinely engrossing story.
Mystery Scene Magazine
Sager s tight focus on the pair as they plow through the night, stopping at lonely diners and gas stations that could be escape routes for Charlie, cranks up the stress level to 11. Gen X readers with fond memories of phone booths, analog message boards, and Nirvana will be especially taken with this nerved-up, noir-ish road trip into the past.
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Jeffery Deaver, author of The Final Twist
"Riley Sager's premise is bone-chilling what if you caught a ride from a guy who could be a serial killer? and his writing is propulsive and gripping. Woven throughout is a clever nod to classic movies, which adds to the intricate architecture of this absolutely terrific book."
Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of You Are Not Alone
"The perfect summer binge!"
J.D. Barker, New York Times bestselling author of A Caller's Game
"Sager excels at playing with reader expectations and in concocting plausible, gut-wrenching twists.
Publishers Weekly, starred review
[Sager s novels are] all creepily atmospheric, easy to read without being fluffy, and fun as hell. Each book has also been better and more confident than the last.
Vulture, 46 Books We Can t Wait to Read in 2021
"Sager s signature blend of campy homage and tense thrills is on full display in his new story of suspicion and doubt at 60 miles an hour.
CrimeReads "Most Anticipated Crime Books of 2021: Summer Reading Edition"
"Seatbelt mandatory! Like hurtling down a twisty road, Survive the Night is a heart-pounding ride that will keep you guessing at every dizzying turn. Ingenious, surprising, and so much fun."
Taylor Adams, author of No Exit
"Compulsively readable, pulse-poundingly tense with ingenious, gasp-worthy twists, Survive the Night is Hitchcockian film noir magic wrapped inside one of Sager s signature propulsive plots. A story about a ride share gone terribly wrong, this white-knuckle thriller kidnapped me and held me hostage as I raced through to its deliciously satisfying climax.
May Cobb, author of The Hunting Wives
Sager has been turning out one fine thriller after another since Final Girls, his 2017 breakout novel, and this one just might be his best yet. It's certainly his most complex.
Booklist
All of Riley Sager s books take an established horror or thriller trope and give it a smart, knowing twist. This time, it s a creepy hitchhiking situation (with the added bonus of a 90s setting!).
BookPage, 2021 Preview: most anticipated mysteries & thrillers
"A love letter to final girls and badass cinematic heroines, Sager s new tale ripples with taut pacing, nail-biting tension, and a series of twists that will leave you whiplashed. I devoured this book."
Erin A. Craig, New York Times bestselling author of House of Salt and Sorrows
If you ve read any Riley Sager books in the past then you know there are bound to be twists in this story that you won t see coming no matter how hard you try, and Survive the Night is filled with them. Another killer book (pun definitely intended!). I couldn t put this down; it may be Sager s best one yet.
Suspense Magazine
"Riley Sager s scintillating Survive the Night reads like Die Hard in a car.
The Providence Journal, "August Must-Read Thrillers"
Sager s books are always a thrilling treat, and this is absolutely no exception.
The Parkersburg News and Sentinel
Sager constantly keeps the reader off-kilter with clever twists and turns that are as terrifying as they are believable, while blurring the line between Charlie s experiences and her fantasies.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The action at which we finally arrive makes the long, strange trip more than worthwhile.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Like Charlie, readers will find themselves distrusting their own perceptions as the book navigates an ever-windier route through a dark and dangerous landscape.
Bookreporter
Sager is at the absolute height of his powers The paranoia dripping from every page is palpable, making for a compulsive read.
Murder & Mayhem
"The best way to cool down during the hot summer months? Thrills and chills! Riley Sager is delivering both in his new novel."
Bookish
Riley Sager delivers an utterly convincing, genuinely engrossing story.
Mystery Scene Magazine
Sager s tight focus on the pair as they plow through the night, stopping at lonely diners and gas stations that could be escape routes for Charlie, cranks up the stress level to 11. Gen X readers with fond memories of phone booths, analog message boards, and Nirvana will be especially taken with this nerved-up, noir-ish road trip into the past.
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