![]() Agent: Lorella Belli, Lorella Belli Literary. Only a predictable twist and moments when Jay’s maturity feels beyond her years mar this otherwise satisfying page-turner. The action drives to a climatic and emotionally charged ending. The only problem, she doesn’t know which traveler is the kidnapper or who can be trusted. 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. 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. The movie will also be released on Hulu in 2022, which pretty much guarantees I’ll need to keep my subscription until then. The volunteer-run facility is nearly empty, except for four other stranded travelers-a quirky, but seemingly harmless group of strangers. Adams told us during an interview back in 2019 that No Exit had been optioned for a movie deal, but it was still a shock to find out it had already completed filmingespecially coming right on the tail end of the pandemic. ![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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