The Drift The Drift

The Drift

The spine-chilling ‘Waterstones Thriller of The Month’ from the author of The Burning Girls

    • 3.9 • 61 Ratings
    • £4.99

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

GENRE
Crime & Thrillers
RELEASED
2023
19 January
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
416
Pages
PUBLISHER
Penguin Books Ltd
SIZE
1.5
MB

Customer Reviews

JoHerschell ,

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!

loo_la_doo_da ,

Surprising!

Excellent, just don’t see what comes or the significant twist in the middle!

Tinks24 ,

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!

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