Survive the Night: A Novel

Riley Sager

Jun 2021 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Savannah Gilmore

About this audiobook

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

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. 

It’s November 1991. Nirvana's in the tape deck, George H. W. 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.

Josh Baxter, the man behind the wheel, is a virtual stranger to Charlie. They met at the campus ride board, each looking to share the long drive home to Ohio. Both have good reasons for wanting to get away. 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. For Josh, it’s to help care for his sick father—or so he says.
 
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. 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. Is Josh truly dangerous? Or is Charlie’s jittery mistrust merely a figment of her movie-fueled imagination?
 
One thing is certain—Charlie has nowhere to run and no way to call for help. 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.

Ratings and reviews

This book was TERRIBLE, and I like some of the authors' other novels. The main character and all of her actions were painfully unbelievable. The whole plot is ridiculous, but the ending is really absurd. There are no twists, just idiotic, overdraumatized series of events that would never happen to anyone with any common sense. All the characters are terribly written, and the dialog is juvenile. I seriously hate everything about this book. I want the names of the editors who approved the drafts, the publisher who put this to print; and I want to know how much the reviewers at the NYT, etc. we're paid to recommend this hot pile of garbage. I want names, and I want my money back!

good story. the narrator was also good. main character got on my nereves sometimes!! but in the end I was glad i finished the book.

About the author

Riley Sager is the New York Times bestselling author of six novels, most recently Home Before Dark and Survive the Night. A native of Pennsylvania, he now lives in Princeton, New Jersey.