All the Colors of the Dark

Written by Chris Whitaker

After surviving a kidnapping, a boy spends decades searching for the girl who saved him.

608 pages

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In 1975, in a small Missouri town, thirteen-year-old Patch saves a classmate from an abduction but is taken himself. In the dark he is kept company by a girl named Grace, and after he escapes he can't let her go. Over the decades that follow, Patch's search for Grace, and his friend Saint's devotion to him, become an obsession. An adult literary thriller.

From the publisher

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 50 BEST THRILLERS OF THE CENTURY - NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD - From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that “hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel” (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as Featured on TodayA Best Book of the Year: Washington Post, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews “Kept me frantically turning the pages and somehow made me cry at the end . . . Brava!”–Kristin Hannah, author of The Women “Melds tense suspense with a powerful exploration of devotion, obsession, and love.”–People1975 is a time of change in America. The Vietnam War is ending. Muhammad Ali is fighting Joe Frazier. And in the smalltown of Monta Clare, Missouri, girls are disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, the most unlikely hero emerges–Patch, a local boy, who saves the girl, and, in doing so, leaves heartache in his wake. Patch and those who love him soon discover that the line between triumph and tragedy has never been finer. And that their search for answers will lead them to truths that could mean losing one another. A missing person mystery, a serial killer thriller, a love story, a unique twist on each, Chris Whitaker has written a novel about what lurks in the shadows of obsession and the blinding light of hope.

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