A review by Drew:
I came across Run by Blake Crouch from reading Joe Konrthat's blog a few months ago. I'm not a Steven King fan. I've never read the works of Dean Koontz or Thomas Harris, yet this is what RUN was compared to. Yet from the description alone, which is posted below, was enough to peak my interest and pay the $2.99. A really fair price for this well written book.
I'm not usually a fast reader, yet this book sucked me in. I read it in about 2 or 3 days. I really lost track of time. Had I been able to skip work and family responsibilities I would have probably read the book straight through.
There is some violence...but not overly gruesome or over the top in my opinion. Blake doesn't go into explicit detail of what is going on but leaves your imagination to do most of the work. It's not gratuitous either. What violence is included seems reasonable for the story line.
The story is about Jack Colclough is a father and husband. Faced with what seems as most of the world trying to kill him he is consumed with the task of survival for him and his family. Perhaps what pulled me in is because I myself am a father and husband and tried to imagine what I would do in the same situation. What length would I go to protect my family from someone else?
Here is the description from Amazon:
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
I found this very entertaining read. Well worth the price and really enjoyable. There is certainly some language and of course some violence. Yet Blake tells a very good story.
Click on Run
to view his book on Amazon.
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