Lisa Scottoline, #1 bestselling author of Eternal and Someone Knows 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." 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. "I couldn't put down Survive the Night and I didn't want to try. "If a scary, creepy, don't-turn-out-the-lights thriller is on your summer reading agenda, who better to turn to than Sager?" Nineties-era nostalgia (Nirvana, pay phones, cassettetapes) paves the way for a truly haunting potential kidnapping story. "With every mile, the tension rises toward a deliciously unbearable pitch." Trapped in a terrifying game of cat and mouse played out on pitch-black roads and in neon-lit parking lots, Charlie knows the only way to win is to survive the night. One thing is certain-Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie's jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination? As they travel an empty, twisty highway in the dead of night, an increasingly anxious Charlie begins to think she's sharing a car with the Campus Killer. The longer she sits in the passenger seat, the more Charlie notices there's something suspicious about Josh, from the holes in his story about his father to how he doesn't want her to see inside the trunk. For Josh, it's to help care for his sick father-or so he says. For Charlie, it's guilt and grief over the shocking murder of her best friend, who became the third victim of the man known as the Campus Killer.
Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie.
Bush is in the White House, and movie-obsessed college student Charlie Jordan is in a car with a man who might be a serial killer.
One of New York Times Book Review's summer reads guaranteed to make your heart thump and your skin crawl An Amazon Best of the Month Pick Named a must-read summer book by The Washington Post, USA Today, Vulture, BuzzFeed, Forbes, Entertainment Weekly, CNN, New York Post, Good Housekeeping, E!, PopSugar, CrimeReads, Thrillist, and BookRiot. Description THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER