FICTION
Released: March 22, 2011
"Fans will be rewarded by the nonstop plot twists Coben must have patented."
A client's case of online harassment brings the chickens home to roost for agent Myron Bolitar and his whole family.
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FICTION
Released: April 1, 2009
"Fans are strongly advised to leave plenty of time to plow through the case at one sitting, as any delay would be fatal to the suspension of disbelief it demands. On the other hand, those few hours will leave the easy chair smoking."
Agent Myron Bolitar returns in a case as twisty and ambitious as Coben's highly successful stand-alones (
Hold Tight, 2008, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: April 15, 2008
"There are surprises aplenty, but this time the ambitious scope--the anatomy of suburban vice--works against suspense; there are just too many cutaways to other embattled characters you want to root for but can't remember why."
How much do you trust your children, and what would you do if your efforts to keep tabs on them pushed them even further away?
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FICTION
Released: April 17, 2007
"All the surprises you'd expect from Coben, but a lot fewer thrills."
Twenty years after his teenaged sister and three of her friends were murdered at their summer camp, a New Jersey prosecutor learns that one of the victims--and maybe more than one--may have walked away.
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FICTION
Released: April 25, 2006
"As usual, Coben piles on the plot twists, false leads, violent set pieces and climactic surprises with the unfocused intensity that have made his thrillers (The Innocent, 2005, etc.) such a hot ticket."
After six years of spinning jaw-dropping stand-alone thrillers, Coben brings back his sports agent--make that everything agent--Myron Bolitar (
Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.) for an encore.
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FICTION
Released: May 1, 2004
"Tepid terrors along the way to a mildly surprising end."
Suburban thriller from the prolific Coben (
No Second Chance, 2002, etc.), about a perfect husband who disappears when a photo from the past shows up in the latest batch from the photomat.
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FICTION
Released: April 28, 2003
"Irresistibly overstuffed. Coben has blossomed into the male Mary Higgins Clark."
Once again, Coben (
Gone for Good, 2002, etc.) expertly tugs at a suburban citizen's most ordinary fears until he finds a mind-boggling criminal conspiracy at the other end of the line.
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FICTION
Released: April 30, 2002
A betwixt-and-between thriller from the talented chronicler of sports agent Myron Bolitar (
Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 12, 2001
"A gloriously exciting yarn whose spell will end the moment you turn the last page."
What's worse than learning that your wife's been abducted and murdered by a madman? Learning that she hasn't--in this taut, twisty dose of suspenseful hokum from the gifted chronicler of sleuthing sports-agent Myron Bolitar (
Darkest Fear, 2000, etc.).
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FICTION
Released: June 1, 2000
"Even so, Myron runs rings around most of the tough-guy competition in the amateur division, like a class clown who's much more than just a funny face."
Years after a mauled knee ended his basketball career in his first preseason game, sports agent Myron Bolitar is still taking body blows.
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FICTION
Released: May 11, 1998
"It'll be a pleasure waiting for the next installment to find out."
Fast-talking sports agent Myron Bolitar won't win any awards for baseball (since his Little League brushback) or basketball (thanks to his bum knee), but his paperback detective work has already won him an Anthony, a Shamus, and an Edgar.
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FICTION
Released: Oct. 18, 1991
"Lurid, formula medical thriller—enhanced by celebrity look-alikes, rich and famous scenery, and shadowy sex."
Manhattan AIDS researchers hold off announcing the discovery of a cure for the disease until they find who is murdering their prize patients—in a medical thriller by the author of Play Dead (1990). Dr. Bruce Grey, who is supposed to be on vacation from his AIDS research clinic, slips back into New York in disguise and checks into a hotel, where he is promptly tortured and pitched from a window.
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