David Burroughs has been locked up for years for killing his son. And he didn’t. The moment someone shows him a photo that suggests the child could still be alive is the start of ‘I will find you‘, the new series by Harlan Coben, which comes to Netflix on June 18. It is also the first time that, eight years after writer and platform began collaborating, the adaptation is set, shot and produced in the United States.
When Netflix signed a multimillion-dollar deal with Coben in August 2018 to adapt 14 of his novels, production in English fell to a British production company based in Manchester. Until this installment, all English-language adaptations had translated the original American settings of the novels into British equivalents. ‘Safe’ took place in the suburbs of Manchester. ‘Don’t talk to strangers’ and ‘Deceptions’, in the north of England.
With this new adaptation, Netflix is going to try to continue Coben’s streak of success. ‘Deceptions’ was the most viewed series globally in the first half of 2024 on the platform, with 107.5 million total views, which placed it in seventh place in history among the most viewed English series on Netflix. Already in 2026, ‘On the run’ generated 15.6 million views in its first week and It surpassed ‘Stranger Things’ at number one in the United States.
It is clear why they like Coben’s series, in what seems like a template that ‘I will find you’ will also follow with complete certainty: premises that hook you from the first minute, cliffhangers to cholon and continuous shocking revelations. Coben’s novels are perfect for a platform where users devour episodes in one sitting. ‘I’ll Find You’ also has a novelty: the protagonist, played by Sam Worthington, is not only a father who investigates, but also a fugitive pursued by the FBI. A welcome novelty that aims to refresh the Coben style with unexpected twists.
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