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Run

From The Bestselling Author Of Dark Matter, Now A Major TV Show

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Run

By: Blake Crouch
Narrated by: Scott Brick
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About this listen

'Scott Brick can be relied upon to deliver intensity in every audiobook he narrates, but he outdoes himself in this story of a family on the run in a world gone mad...This is an audiobook you can't put down' – AudioFile

‘A great storyteller hitting his stride’ – Lee Child, bestselling author of the Jack Reacher novels

When a man’s name is read out to be killed, he must do everything to survive. Run is a relentless thriller from Blake Crouch, the New York Times bestselling author of Dark Matter and Upgrade.

You only have time to . . . run.

FIVE DAYS AGO: a rash of bizarre murders swept the country.

FOUR DAYS AGO: the murders increased tenfold.

THREE DAYS AGO: the President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace.

TWO DAYS AGO: the killers began to mobilize.

YESTERDAY: all the power went out.

TONIGHT: they’re reading out the names of those to be killed on the Emergency Broadcast System – and they’ve just read yours.

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Praise for Blake Crouch:

‘Another killer read from Blake’ – Andy Weir, author of The Martian

‘It’s clear you’re in the hands of a master storyteller’ – Alex Michaelides, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens.

'Blake Crouch doesn't pull any punches' – Veronica Roth, author of Chosen Ones

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Critic reviews

Imaginative, perfectly paced and extremely clever . . . Walks the fine line between page-turning thriller and smart sci-fi. Another killer read from Blake (Andy Weir, author of The Martian )
Blake Crouch has invented his own brand of page-turner – fearlessly genre-bending, consistently surprising and determined to explode the boundaries of what a thriller can be (Karin Slaughter, author of After That Night)
Terrific . . . A great storyteller hitting his stride (Lee Child, author of In Too Deep)
It’s clear you’re in the hands of a master storyteller (Alex Michaelides, author of The Silent Patient and The Maidens)
Amazingly gripping and totally immersive (Diana Gabaldon, author of Outlander)
Blake Crouch doesn’t pull any punches (Veronica Roth, author of When Among Crows)
Blake Crouch is brilliant. His innovative novels never fail to grip! (Sarah Pekkanen, author of House of Glass)
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I enjoyed the book specially the performance was kept me entertained. some very realistic scenes and I just could not believe a person can live a few days after being shut in the shoulder!

Action paced, Excellent performance

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Whilst this was fast paced and readable, it was a disappointing overall. We are launched straight into the middle of something big and the action is immediate. This would be fine if we had some retrospective character or world building, or some flashbacks in the timeline to get to know the characters and sequence of events. There is a bit of this but it is thin, flimsy and one dimensional. The whole book was very repetitive - run a lot, find somewhere to hide, get discovered, run some more. Implausibly, every peripheral character bit the dust in a gruesome, violent way but our family of four made it out alive every time.
I am usually a great fan of Scott Brick’s narration but he definitely didn’t get it right this time. Almost all the dialogue was read in the same frantic, over the top, verging on panic kind of way. This just didn’t work for me and should have been toned back a lot. Also, very surprisingly, Mr Brick can’t pull off an accent at all.
Overall, I wouldn’t recommend this title.

Disappointing

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Originally a self published book years ago, now released by a publishing company. The overall story is bit loose? does not have the more put togetherness to be fully satisfying listen but I did enjoy it and finished it in the same day. The story is the title and the narration is good.

75% there as a story but I enjoyed it all the same

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Didn’t find it as good as some of the authors other books, A bit boring and predictable in parts.

Not the best

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This was a good story if you're into this kind of thing - it's fast-paced, peril, gore, peril, peril, gore etc and the protagonist 'Jack' seems a little on the thick side...but resilient,, I'll give him that! The trouble was that the narrator, Scott Brick, is just too dramatic all the time and there is no room for nuance, or for when things get really dramatic because he's hamming it up to the max already..if I hadn't known better I'd have thought it was William Shatner in full Star Trek mode doing the narration, because he does sound very much like him. I got through it and enjoyed it somewhat, but it really could've done without the vocal drama - let the words do the work I say...also the attempt at Irish and Australian accents made me wince. On the plus side, he does have a very resonant voice...just maybe not suited to this sort of thing.

Narrator slightly ruined it

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