When his child is taken, a father will stop at nothing to get her back in this explosive, white-knuckle thriller from the bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger.When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter…Shot twice by an unseen assailant, Dr. Marc Seidman lies in a hospital bed. His wife has been killed. His six-month-old daughter has vanished. … six-month-old daughter has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered, the ransom note arrives: We are watching. If you contact the authorities, you will never see your daughter again. There will be no second chance. With no one to trust, and mired in a deepening quicksand of deception and deadly secrets, Marc clings to one unwavering vow: bring home his daughter, at any cost.
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All his books are exciting
Dr. Mark Seidman wakes up in the hospital. He has been shot, his wife killed, his six month old daughter abducted. Police investigations yield no clues to finding the perpetrators and Seidman is ready to give up until he reads a mysterious note demanding a $1 million ransom. This leads to a year-long chasing after the child and uncovering a baby selling ring, rediscovering an old love, and a series of set backs and deception. We “read” this over a few months as an audio book and spent the last 15 minutes driving aimlessly around Davis waiting for the end to come.
Coben does go on and on and on with descriptions of the smallest details until you want to fast forward to the actual plot, but otherwise this is a great read.
He never writes a bad book.
enjoyed the unexpected, but not irrational, twists
This author is an extraordinary fun read. I have enjoyed, loved and recommended his books to family and friends.
I love Harlan Conan his books are so entertaining, hard to put down
Fun and fast paced.
Excellent!
One of my favorite authors. LOVE his books!
harlan coben never disappoints.
This one kept me turning pages when I should have been working. A surgeon is shot and left for dead, his wife murdered, and his baby daughter abducted. The bad guys lead him to hope and then dash those hopes. 18 months later they are back for more ransom money. Is it a hoax? Is the little girl dead or alive? The police suspect him, which impedes the whole case. He brings in an ex-girlfriend, ex-FBI agent to help, and then the police think she did it. The end has an interesting twist.
Good reading
As with all his books, a joy to read!
Cobin is super.No one has better endings
Wonderful book
A first-class crime thriller that oddly vacillates between being really, really fast where I found myself completely immersed, and then really, really slow where I started skimming a little. Coben is the king of plotting, and is obviously an excellent writer, even if sometimes the plot did stretch credulity a bit. A quick, easy read I’d recommend for the beach.
I have read sever Harlan Coben books and loved them all.
Once I got used to the method of changing between characters( no chapters or breaks in the paragraphs) the pages turned rapidly!
One of my favorite authors
Great