A perfect family is shattered when their daughter goes missing in this “brilliantly executed” New York Times bestselling thriller from a “master storyteller” (Providence Sunday Journal). You’ve lost your daughter. She’s addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she’s made it clear that she doesn’t want to be found. Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she’s …
Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she’s not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble.
You don’t stop to think. You approach her, beg her to come home.
She runs. And you do the only thing a parent can do: you follow her into a dark and dangerous world you never knew existed. Before you know it, both your family and your life are on the line. And in order to protect your daughter from the evils of that world, you must face them head on.
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Harlan Corben’s new novel RUN AWAY has all the twist, turns ans surprises you have come to expect from one of the best thriller writers we have today. What would you do if your addicted daughter ran away? You find her and approach her, but it all goes wrong. In trying to find his daughter, Simon goes to the dark side of New York, and finds secrets that lead to his own family. How well do we know the person we five with and what would you do to keep the secrets you have uncovered? This book will keep you up at night, and it has an ending that will stay with you long after you have turned the last page.
I wish reading books would take as long as the author needs to write it!
I love Harlan Coben’s books!
3.5. This was a good book and it kept me interested, but when the motive for everything was going on was revealed, I thought it was little far fetched.
If other-worldly creatures came to earth and wanted a primer on the NE US, they need go no further than Coben. This is his latest, and it’s the usual offering: colloquial language, quick to read, a plot that grips from page 1, twists and turns to keep you reading, and, as always, a saccharine finish that will make you feel for these characters of his. Coben really is extraordinary.
No one can come up with a better page-turner than Harlan Coben! I actually got up early (can you believe it?) because I couldn’t wait to see what happened next. He is SUCH a rock star.
First, I want to thank Harlan Coben, Grand Central Publishers, and NetGalley for providing me with this book so I may bring you this review.
I was very honored when Grand Central Publishers granted me access to review Harlan Coben’s Run Away on NetGalley. Harlan Coben has been my favorite mystery author ever since my Mom let me borrow Gone for Good. That book and Harlan’s writing style blew me away! He had a fan for life with me. Now I look forward to every book that comes out.
Run Away focuses on some difficult issues that many of his troubled characters are faced with. These subjects include death, drug abuse, abusive boyfriends, secrets, rape, violence, missing daughter, cults, etc.
I loved the mystery surrounding to what really happened to missing Paige. I loved the investigation surrounding it. So many gripping twists and turns that you didn’t see coming.
I loved the message in the book how strong a father’s love for a daughter’s love is. How far he will go and what great lengths to save her.
Coben knows how to write thrillers – whew!
I believe I’ve read all of author Coben’s standalone books and love the twists he puts into each one.
RUN AWAY is built around the theme of “what would you do as a parent to protect your child or children.” I believe that most of us parents would do WHATEVER it takes to keep our child/children safe.
Simon Greene is a successful New York financial advisor and his wife, Ingrid, is a pediatrician. They have three children. Paige, their oldest, went away to college a happy, outgoing girl, met an older man, and is now a heroin addict.
Simon has never given up on her even after he and his wife finally had to tell her not to come home anymore. So she disappears from their lives with no word and he looks for her often.
Then one day Simon sees her busking in Central Park…and this fast-paced thriller starts the reader on this bungee jumping tale of stepping off ledges and plunging to scary depths.
Paige’s story is intertwined closely with a couple of other plot twists that, yes, stretched the imagination, but this is fiction. Bring it on!
I highly recommend this to fellow thriller readers and fans of Coben.
I received this book from Grand Central Publishing through Net Galley in the hopes that I would read it and leave an unbiased review.
Simon believes that he and his wife, Ingrid, a pediatrician, have established a nearly perfect life. They have 3 beautiful children, successful careers, a beautiful home in Manhattan.
And then their oldest daughter, Paige, goes away to college . . . and it all goes wrong. Paige becomes a drug addict, drops out of school, and has an abusive boyfriend, 11 years her senior. After all attempts to help her fail, she disappears.
Brokenhearted, Simon cannot bring himself to stop searching for her, even though he and Ingrid have agreed to suspend their efforts. With a tip and some luck, he spots her playing the guitar and singing at Strawberry Fields in Central Park. But she’s clearly strung out to the point of being nearly unrecognizable. And when Simon approaches her, begging her to come home with him, her boyfriend, Aaron, materializes and there is an altercation. In the chaos, Paige runs.
Three months later, Aaron has been brutally murdered and Paige may be in danger. Simon and Ingrid are now united in their effort to find Paige, and together they venture into a dangerous world. With tragic consequences.
Meanwhile, former FBI agent and private investigator Elena Ramirez has been hired to find a missing 24-year-old. Henry Thorpe’s wealthy father is not convinced that the text he received from his son saying he was heading west for a couple of weeks means Henry is not in trouble. Just the opposite, in fact.
And Ash has been hired to kill two men. He doesn’t ask questions. He simply carries out his assignments, accompanied by his friend, DeeDee, with whom he was in foster care as a youth. DeeDee has joined a cult, the Shining Truth, and is known as Holly at its compound, Truth Haven.
At the outset, how these three disparate stories are related is a mystery. But as bestselling author Harlen Coben’s intricately plotted new thriller, Run Away, progresses, it becomes clear that there will be convergence. First, Elena and Simon encounter and begin working together to find Paige. Both are empathetic characters. Elena has lost the love of her life and been forced to leave the FBI following an injury that left her with a limp. Simon is forced, through Paige’s disappearance and other events, to confront his effectiveness as a father and husband. His introspection fuels his determination to make amends for mistakes he made — even though he thought he was doing his best at the time — and be more present if only he can find Paige and set things right in his family. Along the way, he finds a surprising ally, as well as a few enemies who threaten not only his well-being, but that of his family.
Run Away’s pace never slackens as Coben takes readers along on Simon’s desperate search to find his daughter and keep her safe, and keeps them guessing about how the three seemingly unrelated stories are, in fact, connected. As they begin to converge, Coben reveals plot twists and surprising developments that propel the story forward. And just for good measure, he wraps the story up with a jaw-dropping conclusion.
Run Away is a compelling exploration of just how far a father and mother will go to protect their children. But it is also a surprisingly tender exploration of marriage and relationships that illustrates it is impossible to ever fully know another person. Everyone harbors secrets. Coben explores how one family deals with secrets that are finally exposed, as well as whether some secrets can remain hidden for the sake of the family’s survival. Run Away is a contemporary, intriguing story with endearing, relatable characters that will leave readers pondering its themes long after they’ve finished reading the book.
Thanks to NetGalley for an Advance Reader’s Copy of the book.