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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. Read full book review >
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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.). Read full book review >
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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.). Read full book review >
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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. Read full book review >
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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. Read full book review >
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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. Read full book review >