Harlan Coben, Showrunner Robert Hull Break Down ‘I Will Find You’s’ Appeal as Series Hits Netflix’s All-Time Top 10 (Exclusive)

Logo text Netflix 's all-time top 10 list for English-language series has a new entrant: I Will Find You , the streamer's latest adaptation of a Harlan Coben novel, claims the No. 10 spot with 101.9 million views worldwide.

The limited series starring Sam Worthington and Britt Lower — in which Worthington's character, David Burroughs, breaks out of prison after learning the son he was wrongfully convicted of killing might still be alive — needed just 39 days to move into the all-time list. With 7.3 million views last week, I Will Find You also reached the top ranking for the fifth week since its June 18 premiere. It's the first English-language series to spend five weeks in at No. 1 since season two of Wednesday in September 2025 (the most recent seasons of Stranger Things and Bridgerton topped the charts for four weeks each). Related Stories TV 'Beauty in Black' Season 3 First Looks Show Taylor Polidore Williams Battling at Bellarie Table TV Josh Hartnett Battles a Sea Monster in Teaser for Netflix's 'Below'

I Will Find You is the second series based on a Coben book to make Netflix's all-time top 10. Fool Me Once , released in January 2024, was on the chart for a while with 98 million views over its first 13 weeks (the cutoff point for Netflix's all-time lists), but it has since been bumped down a few spots. With seven-plus weeks still left before I Will Find You hits the cutoff, the series will likely end up a few places higher on the list.

"It's a tremendous thrill. It is never not a thrill for me," Coben told The Hollywood Reporter about I Will Find You' s breakout success. "It is never not something that I don't stop and appreciate. I'm ridiculously grateful. And all it does is make me want to work even harder on the next one."

A few more stats: Since Netflix began releasing global top 10 lists five years ago, shows based on Coben's works have made the worldwide charts 41 times and reached the top 10 in 93 countries. Since the start of 2023, Coben's shows have amassed more than 450 million views on Netflix. The steamer, which has a partnership with Coben dating back to 2018, has adapted 13 of his novels as series (in the United States, U.K., France, Spain, Poland and Argentina), with more to come. On deck is Myron Bolitar , based on Coben's 12-book series about a sports agent (played by Colin Woodell); it started production this week, with David E. Kelley and Kyle Long as co-showrunners.

Also, since the trailer for I Will Find You was released on June 1, sales of the 2023 novel have spiked: According Grand Central Publishing, book sales in the past two months are six times higher than they had been prior to that.

THR spoke separately with Coben and I Will Find You showrunner Robert Hull about the show's success, the adaptation process and why Coben's work has traveled so well across the world.

Robert, how did you become involved in I Will Find You ?

ROBERT HULL First and foremost, I've been a huge fan of Harlan's work since probably the first novel of the Myron Bolitar series. I was actually chasing that series for a while. And when I finally got on the phone, Harlan told me that unfortunately, the Myron series was locked up, but he had another great idea for a show, and he pitched the basic premise of [ I Will Find You ]. I just flipped. I was like, I can't believe I'm getting a Harlan idea before anyone else. He basically said, do you want to work on this together? So I went from chasing a series to getting to work on a series with Harlan from the ground up. It was everything you could possibly dream of as a writer.

So you started work on the show before the novel was published?

HULL He came up with the idea, and we wanted to take it off the table as quick as I could — because once it became a bestseller, the chances of me getting it were going to be reduced somewhat. I basically skipped the line. We took it to Netflix before he was even finished with the novel and said, "This is what we're going to do." The original goal, which was way too ambitious, was the book and the series would drop at the same time. But Harlan is so ridiculously prolific that he finished the book in six or eight months, before we could really even get past the pilot. But it was such an incredible process to watch him turn out that novel as we were breaking the series and to be able to go back and forth with it.

Harlan, how involved do you get in the adaptations of your novels?

HARLAN COBEN When we're talking about the English-language ones, I'm heavily involved casting, working on the scripts, outlining all the stuff. With the foreign language ones, less so, because we are translating and there's a little bit of a delay. I can't be as immediate. I get the rushes pretty much every day, and I watch them almost every day. [On I Will Find You ], the actors all have my phone number, and so does Robby and whoever else when they need me. I try to visit set when I can, but, you know, in this case, we really were in very good hands with Robby, Steve [Lilien] and Bryan [Wynbrandt] sort of showrunning as a team. But yes, I do like to be involved. This one was unusual. I'm sure it's happened, but not with me [before] where I pitched the idea of the series, and then I said, well, I kind of wrote this out already. I'd like to try to write this as a book. I wrote the book faster than they ended up writing the pilot. But I think it helped give us a sense of where we were going with the story, feeling it out.

How tightly do you hold onto what you write versus what ends up on screen?

COBEN All I care about is what's going to make the best TV series. One of my favorite quotes comes from James M. Cain, who wrote The Postman Always Rings Twice and Double Indemnity . An interviewer asked him, don't you hate what Hollywood has done to your books? And he said, they've done nothing to my books. They're right there on the shelf. Whatever I do in a TV adaptation doesn't change one word of the books. I think often th...