The Drift
The spine-chilling ‘Waterstones Thriller of The Month’ from the author of The Burning Girls
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3.9 • 61 Ratings
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Publisher Description
THE HEART-POUNDING NEW NOVEL FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE BURNING GIRLS WHICH HAS NOW BEEN ADAPTED INTO A HIT PARAMOUNT+ SHOW!
'The wildest thriller of the year is three thrillers in one. Buckle up' LINWOOD BARCLAY
‘If you like my stuff, you'll like this’ STEPHEN KING
‘Now this is a real horror story’ 5 STAR READER REVIEW
‘One of the best thriller’s I’ve ever read!’ 5 STAR READER REVIEW
Survival is murder . . .
An overturned coach full of students. All of them are trapped.
An isolated chalet full of friends. Soon they'll be enemies.
A stranded cable car full of strangers. One of them is dead.
Outside, a snowstorm rages.
Inside each group, a killer lurks.
But that's not their only problem.
Why is no rescue coming? What are they trying to escape from? And who are the terrifying Whistlers?
Praise for C. J. Tudor:
'Some writers have it, and some don't. C. J. Tudor has it big time' LEE CHILD
'C. J. Tudor is terrific’ HARLAN COBEN
‘C.J. Tudor should be on everyone's must-read list' CHRIS WHITAKER
'A dark star is born' A. J. FINN
Sunday Times bestseller, November 2023
Waterstones Thriller of the Month, November 2023
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Some might argue that a gory, post-apocalyptic thriller set a decade after an airborne virus has ravaged the world and led to the breakdown of society might be a little on the nose. But if you’ve got the stomach for it, brace yourself for the sixth novel from the best-selling author dubbed ‘Britain’s Stephen King’ by critics. Three separate groups of survivors are trapped in sub-zero locations—a broken ski resort cable car, a coach that crashes in the snow and a mountainside retreat which is anything but relaxing. What links them all? Can they trust each other? (Spoiler: no.) And who will live long enough to escape? The plot whizzes along faster than an Olympic downhill skier—you’ll need a lie down after reading.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this tour de force from Tudor (The Burning Girls), a postapocalyptic thriller, a haven called the Retreat, which has been constructed for a select few in the wake of a devastating new plague, proves to be not much of a haven. Some of those in residence at the mountainside facility begin to disappear, even as vital supplies go missing and power outages increase, leading up to the discovery of a body floating in the recreational pool. Meanwhile, a cable car transporting a group to the Retreat is stranded mid-journey; its occupants, including Meg, a former homicide cop, are stunned to find they're trapped with a corpse, whom Meg recognizes. And a second group also faces a threat to their lives; Hannah Grant has been evacuated from a boarding school, but the bus she's in crashes, possibly not by accident, trapping her and several others. Tudor shifts among the three situations, teasing a common link, and gradually ratchets up the pressure on her characters as they try to preserve their humanity while surviving. This is a masterpiece of its kind.
Customer Reviews
Another great book
C J Tudor is one of my favourite authors and she’s done it again with this novel. Kept me needing to read yet another chapter after each one!
Surprising!
Excellent, just don’t see what comes or the significant twist in the middle!
I have never read a book like this one! It is absolutely bloody brilliant!
This chilling apocalyptic thriller had me racing through the pages, hooked from the start, I craved my next fix of the story each time I had to put the book down. It is certainly not a book for the faint-hearted, but if you don’t mind something a bit darker that will chill you to the core, then this is an absolute must-read!
Hannah and a group of others were heading to a place of safety after being evacuated from their school. They don’t quite make it there and find themselves trapped inside a coach after it crashes during a snowstorm. Those that have survived must work together to find a way out and get help. Will they make it?
Meg wakes up to find herself trapped with five others in a cable car that has stopped moving on its way up the snowy mountains. Dressed identically, stripped of their belongings and with no memory of how they came to be in the cable car! They initially hope that there is a technical glitch and that they will start moving again soon, but it soon becomes apparent that they won’t!
Carter lives and works at the retreat with other survivors. Those that live there have had things ticking over quite nicely, but when the generator packs up and their supplies begin to diminish, things start to go horribly wrong and the bodies begin to pile up! Will those left work together? Or against each other?
This fast-paced, action-packed thriller has not one but three gripping storylines that take you on a high-octane journey through the snowy mountains. This has to be one of the most atmospheric books that I have ever read, jeez I almost got frostbite just from reading it!
The high level of description put me right there on the coach, in the cable car and at the retreat, each chapter played out in my mind like a scene from a movie. I didn’t trust a single character; each one gives you more than one reason to doubt them and their motives. I didn’t even try to guess where each story was going and if they would connect, as I was so engrossed in the moment. Each twist and turn had my jaw on the floor, and nothing about this book was what I expected. I loved it!!!
I’d describe this book as Contagion meets 28 Weeks Later in the snow! If you catch my Drift!
This is my first C J Tudor book and it most certainly won’t be my last. I love the way that she crosses the bridge from thriller to horror. Move over Stephen King!