No Exit
A Novel
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4.3 • 1.5K Ratings
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Publisher Description
“What a box of tricks! This full-throttle thriller, dark and driving, rivals Agatha Christie for sheer ingenuity and James Patterson for flat-out speed. Swift, sharp, and relentless.” — A. J. Finn, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in the Window
A brilliant, edgy thriller about four strangers, a blizzard, a kidnapped child, and a determined young woman desperate to unmask and outwit a vicious psychopath.
A kidnapped little girl locked in a stranger’s van. No help for miles. What would you do?
On her way to Utah to see her dying mother, college student Darby Thorne gets caught in a fierce blizzard in the mountains of Colorado. With the roads impassable, she’s forced to wait out the storm at a remote highway rest stop. Inside are some vending machines, a coffee maker, and four complete strangers.
Desperate to find a signal to call home, Darby goes back out into the storm . . . and makes a horrifying discovery. In the back of the van parked next to her car, a little girl is locked in an animal crate.
Who is the child? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her?
There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, and no way out. One of her fellow travelers is a kidnapper. But which one?
Trapped in an increasingly dangerous situation, with a child’s life and her own on the line, Darby must find a way to break the girl out of the van and escape.
But who can she trust?
With exquisitely controlled pacing, Taylor Adams diabolically ratchets up the tension with every page. Full of terrifying twists and hairpin turns, No Exit will have you on the edge of your seat and leave you breathless.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Intense, gory, and absolutely terrifying, No Exit is a no-nonsense thriller from start to finish. College student Darby is in a rush to get home to Utah before her mother’s emergency surgery when a massive blizzard forces her to spend the night at an interstate rest stop with four strangers. Stepping outside to get a signal on her dying cellphone, she notices that another stranded vehicle has a dog cage inside—and in that cage is a freezing young girl. Novelist Taylor Adams makes every element of this nightmare—from the relentless weather to Darby’s panic over whom she can trust—feel disturbingly real. Over the course of one relentless night, the stakes keep ratcheting higher as Darby’s mistakes and the kidnapper’s viciousness escalate. No Exit is guaranteed to keep you up until you’ve finished.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
College student Darby Thorne, the heroine of this nail-biting thriller from Adams (Our Last Night), braves a Colorado blizzard to try to reach her mother, who's in the late stages of pancreatic cancer. But the weather is too much for Darby's aged Honda Civic, and she's forced to spend the night at a rest stop visitor's center. The volunteer-run facility is nearly empty, except for four other stranded travelers a quirky, but seemingly harmless group of strangers. That is, until Darby goes to the parking lot, in search of a cell signal, and finds nine-year old Jamie "Jay" Nissen mouth duct taped, in a dog crate, locked inside a van. With no cell service and no prospect of the roads being cleared until dawn at the earliest, Darby has to figure out a way to save Jay. The only problem, she doesn't know which traveler is the kidnapper or who can be trusted. The action drives to a climatic and emotionally charged ending. Only a predictable twist and moments when Jay's maturity feels beyond her years mar this otherwise satisfying page-turner.)
Customer Reviews
Kidnap mystery/psychological
4/5 stars. Plot twist happens early on in the book, kept my attention for the whole read. Ends better than expected.
Would read again
I bought this book off the suggestion of someone else, and initially struggled to maintain much interest. I told my wife last night before going to bed that I didn’t think I’d be able to finish it and would likely just watch the Hulu movie and hope to get a feel for the general theme or something. Luckily for me, the chapter I was trying to fight through happened to be the one where everything took off and never really let up. I got hooked and actually had to force myself to stop reading so I could get to sleep before finishing it tonight.
I’m probably not the target audience for a book like this, but I really did enjoy the story and the intensity once it took off.
Enjoyed!
4.5 stars!! Flew through this fast paced thriller, didn’t want to put it down. Overall well executed and well written. A great read for the winter months! Most thrillers are a who done it but with this novel it has a little bit of mystery in the beginning but you find out the main characters roles pretty early on but still has plenty of plot twists throughout which was a nice change of pace for this genre. Great read!