Darkest Fear - A Myron Bolitar Novel

Zusatztext Praise for Darkest Fear   “Suspenseful . . . a slam dunk . . . You race to turn pages.”— People   “Fast-paced . . . layered with both tenderness and fun . . . Coben [is] a gifted storyteller.”— The Denver Post   “A terrific novel . . . Coben’s professionalism is clear from every paragraph in the book.”— The Boston Globe   “With its pretzel of a plot and page-turning pace! Darkest Fear is a winner.” —The Orlando Sentinel Informationen zum Autor Harlan Coben Klappentext In his seventh Myron Bolitar thriller, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben brings us his most astonishing-and deeply personal-novel yet. And it all begins when Myron's ex tells him he's a father . . . of a dying thirteen-year-old boy. A surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough. But Emily Downing's news brings Myron to his knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs a bone marrow transplant from a donor who has vanished without a trace. Then comes the real shocker: Jeremy is Myron's son, conceived the night before Emily's wedding to another man. Myron is determined to help him. But finding the missing donor means cracking open a dark mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and the FBI. And as doubts emerge about Jeremy's true paternity, a child vanishes, igniting a chain reaction of heartbreaking truth and chilling revelation. Praise for Darkest Fear "Suspenseful . . . a slam dunk . . . You race to turn pages."-People "Fast-paced . . . layered with both tenderness and fun . . . Coben [is] a gifted storyteller."-The Denver Post "A terrific novel . . . Coben's professionalism is clear from every paragraph in the book."-The Boston Globe "With its pretzel of a plot and page-turning pace, Darkest Fear is a winner."-The Orlando SentinelAn hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like a urinal cake. "Well?" Mom prompted. Myron battled his throat, won a costly victory, swallowed. "Not bad." Mom shook her head, disappointed. "What?" "I'm a lawyer," Mom said. "You'd think I'd have raised a better liar." "You did the best you could," Myron said. She shrugged and waved a hand at the, uh, pastry. "It's my first time baking, bubbe . It's okay to tell me the truth." "It's like biting into a urinal cake," Myron said. "A what?" "In men's public bathrooms. In the urinals. They put them there for the smell or something." "And you eat them?" "No--" "Is that why your father takes so long in there? He's having a little Tastykake? And here I thought his prostate was acting up." "I'm joking, Mom." She smiled through blue eyes tinged with a red that Visine could never hope to get out, the red you can only get through slow, steady tears. Normally Mom was heavily into histrionics. Slow, steady tears were not her style. "So am I, Mr. Smarty Pants. You think you're the only one in this family with a sense of humor?" Myron said nothing. He looked down at the, uh, pastry, fearing or perhaps hoping it might crawl away. In the thirty-plus years his mother had lived in this house, she had never baked -- not from a recipe, not from scratch, not even from one of those Pillsbury morning croissant thingies that came in small mailing tubes. She could barely boil water without strict instructions and pretty much never cooked, though she could whip up a mean Celeste frozen pizza in the microwave, her agile fingers dancing across the numerical keypad in the vein of Nureyev at Lincoln Center. No, in the Bolitar household, the kitchen was more a gathering place -- a Family Room Lite, if you will -- than anything related to even the basest of the culinary arts. The ro...

Product details

• Authors: Harlan Coben
• Publisher: Dell Publishing Inc.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.12.2017
• EAN: 9780440246206
• ISBN: 978-0-440-24620-6
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 105 mm x 190 mm x 23 mm
• Series: Myron Bolitar; Myron Bolitar
• Subject: Fiction > Suspense