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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

This 80,000-word novel also contains a bonus interview with Blake, and excerpts from his other work.

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BLAKE CROUCH was born near the piedmont town of Statesville, North Carolina in 1978. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated in 2000 with degrees in English and Creative Writing. Blake is the author of five novels and numerous short stories. He lives with his family in southwest Colorado, where he is at work on a new book.

PRAISE FOR THE WORKS OF BLAKE CROUCH

[In SNOWBOUND], Crouch builds suspense as lines blur between good and bad, and plot twists continue to the last sentence. Absolutely compelling.
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ABANDON…demands to be read in one sitting, so you can better appreciate the beauty of Crouch’s storytelling…[O]ne of those books that almost instantly puts you in the mind of a classic.
BOOKREPORTER

Weaving the past and present together with such seamless skill that from the prologue to the last page, this book captures the imagination. [ABANDON] has the arc and flow of a master storyteller. Easily my favorite book of this year.
CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE

Highly recommended, this is easily one of the best this year.
NEW MYSTERY READER MAGAZINE

ABANDON is terrific…a great storyteller hitting his stride.
LEE CHILD

Gut wrenching...the writing is tight, the plots exciting, the suspense unending...Crouch tops my list.
OTTAWA SUN

Expertly paced and viscerally effective, with many surprises and genuine chills.
KIRKUS REVIEWS

Blake Crouch is the most exciting new thriller writer I've read in years.
DAVID MORRELL

Harrowing...terrific...a whacked out combination of Stephen King and Cormac McCarthy.
PAT CONROY

Crouch delivers his description of place with vivid prose...his carefully crafted characters make the story immediate, intense and thoroughly believable.
DENVER POST

This is a complex, cleverly constructed novel of motive, and Crouch takes his time bringing us through the story...a great debut. Crouch is an author to watch.
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About the Author

Blake Crouch is a bestselling novelist and screenwriter. His novels include Upgrade, Recursion, Dark Matter, and the Wayward Pines trilogy, which was adapted into a television series for FOX. Crouch also co-created the TNT show Good Behavior, based on his Letty Dobesh novellas. He lives in Colorado.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004PGNF0W
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Blake Crouch
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Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 24, 2011
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 770 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Print length ‏ : ‎ 379 pages
Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: #1,192,108 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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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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Customers find this book to be a fast-paced thriller with a compelling writing style that moves at a clipping pace. They describe it as a great intense thrill ride that held their interest from page one, with three-dimensional characters and plenty of emotional roller coaster moments. The book receives mixed reactions regarding its violence level, with several customers finding it disturbing.

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674 customers mention "Story quality"526 positive148 negative

Customers describe this book as a fast-paced thriller with an interesting premise and great plot, making it one of the most suspenseful books they've read.

"...their world rapidly to one of basic SURVIVAL of the fittest. Suspenseful & well written, lots of detail and good plot and storyline, I was not..." Read more

"...Great story, fast paced and characters you actually feel for. Reminded me a little of Hater from Moody but still fantastic." Read more

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"...It was tedious and boring and poorly written and had cardboard characters, but the premise was intriguing, so I kept reading...." Read more

588 customers mention "Readability"553 positive35 negative

Customers find the book highly readable, describing it as a definite page turner.

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"...Ultimately, be prepared for an overall good read, but also be ready to have many of your questions go unanswered." Read more

274 customers mention "Pacing"205 positive69 negative

Customers enjoy the pacing of the book, describing it as a fast-paced read worth the ride, though some mention it started slowly.

"Run by Blake Crouch is an excellent, fast paced, edge-of-your-seat action novel...." Read more

"...as awesome and mysterious as Pines, this was a well written, fun and quick read...." Read more

"...What???? Nothing changes. No explanation. Just suddenly everything goes back to normal!..." Read more

"...If you’re in the mood for a fast-paced, can’t-put-it-down kind of book, Run absolutely delivers." Read more

228 customers mention "Writing style"163 positive65 negative

Customers praise the writing style of the book, noting its compelling and tight structure that moves at a clipping pace, making it readable for fans of the genre.

"...i also got to really care about the characters. i thought it was well written, and would like to read other books by the author...." Read more

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"...The only other complaint I had was the writing style. The dialog, at times, was rough...." Read more

"...He is an amazing writer who provides so much detail with his books, you can actually visualize yourself as part of the books...." Read more

191 customers mention "Enjoyment"187 positive4 negative

Customers find the book engaging and entertaining, describing it as a great intense thrill ride that holds their interest from page one.

"...Wayward Pines" series, Blake Crouch's "Run" is still an exciting and worthwhile read. The basic plot is simple, although far-fetched...." Read more

"...but I was willing to overlook those shortcomings in a fast-paced, fun read. Until it ended... ***** Semi-Spoiler Alert *****..." Read more

"...I read the book in just under 2 days! It's addicting and thrilling! It had the perfect amount of homor and gore. I was blown away...." Read more

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169 customers mention "Character development"135 positive34 negative

Customers appreciate the character development in the book, finding them compelling and well-developed, with one customer noting they are three-dimensional.

"...It's full of action with believable characters. I normally don't read a lot of suspense books but I'll be looking for more of this author's." Read more

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77 customers mention "Emotional depth"64 positive13 negative

Customers appreciate the emotional depth of the book, which features plenty of roller coaster moments and family drama, with one customer noting how it mixes survival and desperation with humanity and love.

"...I felt all the terror, emotional turmoil, desperation and disbelief this family stumbled through...." Read more

"...Compelling, exciting, intriguing and heart wrenching. But...I still want to know how Cole managed to contain himself...." Read more

"...The characters are above average. It follows a family of four (Dad, Mom, Sister, and Brother) as they "Run" from people that are trying to..." Read more

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99 customers mention "Violence level"22 positive77 negative

Customers find the book violent and gory, describing it as disturbing and too extreme for their taste.

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MesaMomof3
So good - so intense!
Reviewed in the United States on January 22, 2025
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Blake Crouch’s Run is a nonstop thrill ride that hooks you from the very first page. The pacing is intense, and the high-stakes tension keeps you completely glued to the story. The characters feel so real, which makes their fight to survive even more gripping. Crouch’s writing is vivid, and the twists make the chaos feel almost too believable. If you’re in the mood for a fast-paced, can’t-put-it-down kind of book, Run absolutely delivers.

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Starseed
Good read
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2025
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Kind of a bizarre story, a lot of violence and massacres. I found it hard to swallow that the main characters just happened to survive what basically are un-survivable circumstances minus the help of a few miracles from God. There is a lot of action though, and the story moves pretty fast.

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Robert
Surprised by how good this is
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2025
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I bought this because I like the genre and I like the author, but I like others more so the book needed to stand on its own.

The premise of the story was interesting, although I wasn't sure how well the focus on escaping, rather than fighting, would carry it.

Color me entertained and glad I rolled the dice on this one.

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The_Cooler
Entertaining, but not Stephen King
Reviewed in the United States on October 4, 2011
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The bottom line: Would I recommend this book to my friends? Possibly, but only if it came up in conversation. This was an entertaining book, but not great enough that I would tell my friends that they should read it out of the blue. However, if my friends were talking about post-apocalyptic, end-of-the-world stuff, I'd probably throw it in there.

I was a bit disappointed by this book and feel let down by the reviews from other readers. I haven't read Stephen King's books for years, so maybe the quality of his writing has gone down. However, in Run, there is a major lack of character development and overall details. On the other hand, I will augment that train of thought by saying that the novel keeps you wanting to know what will happen next, hence a 3-star rating rather than a 1-star rating.

I will begin with my negative thoughts so I can end this review on a positive note. The thing that upset me most about this book was how lucky the characters were considering how unlucky they were. Without divulging too much, I'll just say that whenever you think the character should be killed, they somehow get lucky and survive. I can understand this once or maybe twice, but in this book it happens over and over. Read the book and you'll understand.

One thing that I used to enjoy about King's writing was the amount of detail and character development he writes into his novels. King was (I say was because I haven't read anything that he's written in the past 20 or so years) very good at writing so much detail about his characters and their surroundings that you felt like you knew the characters for years (regardless if they were good or bad) and he provided enough detail about where they were that you could oftentimes see, feel, taste, and smell the things that they did. To say that this book was at King's level is somewhat of an understatement.

Don't get me wrong, I've read the reviews in which the author puts ordinary people in bizarre situations...but if that is the basis for comparing this book to the work of King, then there are a lot of books that can be compared to "It", "The Stand", and other books of that level of writing.

So now that I've gone on my tangent about the things that book lacks, I will say that it still is a page turner. It wasn't bad enough that I lacked the desire to just ditch the book. I genuinely wanted to know what would happen and the book kept my attention enough to make me finish it in two days. I think it is safe to say that I really wanted something truly bad to happen to the characters (whether or not something does, I won't reveal).

Maybe you will have a different outlook on the book once you've completed reading it. This is a book that I would recommend if it is the type of book that you like to read. I wouldn't classify it as horror, but it is definitely a hard thriller. Ultimately, be prepared for an overall good read, but also be ready to have many of your questions go unanswered.

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Dr. Ronald K. Mccraw
Great Book with a Few Flaws
Reviewed in the United States on June 28, 2015
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While not living up to the excellent standard of "The Wayward Pines" series, Blake Crouch's "Run" is still an exciting and worthwhile read. The basic plot is simple, although far-fetched. Suddenly and without apparent provocation, a good part of the population of the US (and northern Mexico) starts killing the rest of the population. In fact, those "marked" for death have their names and addresses read over the Emergency Broadcasting Network, the only media still functioning by the third day or so. The killers can identify each other by a glow around their head. The victims have no such visual aid but learn it's better to trust no one. The theory for the murderous insanity, suggested fairly early, and frustratingly no more advanced by the end of the book is that the killers were all those out doors during some atmospheric event, some bizarre aurora. The victims were indoors asleep or protected by an overcast sky. Both the civilian and military authorities are of no help because they were similarly affected.

The main characters are a family of four, already frantically packing to escape when they hear their names read over the radio. Starting from New Mexico, they head for Canada because they hear (by ham radio) that Canada might not be affected. Except for rare, brief moments when they find gasoline, food, water, weapons, and/or shelter they are constantly on the run and always in danger, leading to relentless pacing of the book. As some other reviewers have said, it is hard to put down. It seems 98% of those they meet want to kill them. It is not clear whether this is due to the number affected or that most of the good guys have been quickly and easily killed. In fact, how quickly and efficiently the "good guys" are wiped out rises some philosophical issues about good and evil, but the book doesn't deal with that.

Another criticism, mentioned by several reviewers, is the redundancy of the action. The good guys run into bad guys, get away, find a few supplies (e.g., a can of oil and a package of beef jerky), briefly find shelter, run into more bad guys, and repeat. Another weakness in the plot is that at one or two points the bad guys capture the good guys only to later torture and kill them. Why not just kill them immediately? Other minor points: (1) at one time the main character drinks out of a toilet bowl without suffering any ill effects and (2) the main female is a family physician who leaves on their trip apparently without any medical supplies (even antibiotics, sedatives, suture kit, syringes, needles, IV's, or analgesics).

Notice to readers and Amazon: I just finished reading "Run" (3/20/25) and tried to write a review. The Amazon site presented me with the above review, which they claim I wrote in the past. While I agree with the detailed critique, I certainly would not give the book 4 stars given the problems described. Nor would I title the review "Great Book with a Few Flaws." Aside from the constant extreme and mindless violence, the ending is unsatisfactory. The only thing "great" about the book is the two verses quoted from the Book of Revelation near the end. I'd give it one star.
- Dr. Ronald K. McCraw

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Peter Zmyj
Einer der besten Thriller-Autoren, die ich kenne
Reviewed in Germany on August 22, 2011
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Bis vor wenigen Wochen wusste ich nicht, dass es diesen Autor überhaupt gibt. Dann fiel mir sein Debüt DESERT PLACES (deutscher Titel: BRUDERHERZ) in die Hände, und seitdem bin ich süchtig und möchte am liebsten sofort alles lesen, was Blake Crouch geschrieben hat.

RUN ist ein apokalyptischer Thriller in der Art von Stephen Kings PULS, meiner Ansicht nach aber um einiges besser als der Roman von King. Crouch zeichnet das düstere Bild eines Amerikas nach dem Zusammenbruch der Zivilgesellschaft. Marodierende Banden terrorisieren die Highways nach Mad-Max-Manier. Inmitten dieses Chaos versucht eine Familie verzweifelt, sich auf der Flucht von Albuquerque entlang der Rocky Mountains nach Kanada in Sicherheit zu bringen.

Ich will hier nicht zu viel verraten. Für mich steht jedoch inzwischen eines fest: Blake Crouch ist so ziemlich der beste Thriller-Autor, den ich bisher gelesen habe.

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Ivonize Dictakis
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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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A. C. Magencio
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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lucien muller
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Reviewed in France on July 11, 2025
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Vraiment difficile à s'intéresser à cette histoire, dont le développement est poussif.J'ai abandonné en cours.

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Tay
Emotionally Thrilling
Reviewed in Canada on November 11, 2020
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This book was an emotional Rollercoaster all the way through. Wonderfully written! Very Suspenseful and moving. I love Blake Crouch's stories and the way he writes. Can't wait to read more of his books 😀

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