Play Dead

Coben, Harlan

ISBN 10: 1469235420 ISBN 13: 9781469235424

Publisher: Brilliance Audio, 2012

Synopsis

When her husband, David Baskin, the Boston Celtics' star player, dies on their Australian honeymoon, fashion model Laura Ayars returns home to discover a half million dollars missing from his account and their house ransacked, prompting her to launch her own investigation into David's death. New to audio.

About this title

Review:

"[A] Supersuspense Maestro." -- Forbes
"Coben...keeps the reader off balance with innovative story lines and diabolical bad guys." -- People

"Truly surprising." -- Entertaiment Weekly

"[A] Supersuspense Maestro." Forbes
"Coben...keeps the reader off balance with innovative story lines and diabolical bad guys." People

"Truly surprising." Entertaiment Weekly"

"[A] Supersuspense Maestro." Forbes
"Coben...keeps the reader off balance with innovative story lines and diabolical bad guys." People

"Truly surprising."

Entertaiment Weekly"

-[A] Supersuspense Maestro.- -- Forbes
-Coben...keeps the reader off balance with innovative story lines and diabolical bad guys.- -- People

-Truly surprising.-

-- Entertaiment Weekly

Praise for Play Dead

"Coben...keeps the reader off balance with innovative story lines and diabolical bad guys."--People

"Truly surprising."--Entertaiment Weekly

"Kept me riveted in suspense and eager anticipation."--New York Daily News

More Praise for Harlan Coben

"Coben is one of the best authors around at writing page-turning suspense...He has a knack for hooking readers right away and holding their interest as they zoom through his plots."--Chicago Sun-Times

"Nobody writes them better than Coben."--Associated Press

"What Coben does best is take readers into his characters' hearts and minds."--USA Today

"Every time you think Harlan Coben couldn't get any better at uncoiling a whipsnake of a page-turner, he comes along with a new novel that somehow surpasses its predecessor."--The San Francisco Chronicle

"Coben is the undisputed modern master of the suburban thriller."--The Philadelphia Inquirer

From the Author:

Okay, if this is the first book of mine you're going to try, stop now. Return it. Grab another. It's okay. I'll wait.
If you're still here, please know that I haven't read Play Dead in at least twenty years. I didn't want to rewrite it and pass it off as a new book. I hate when authors do that. So this is, for better or worse, the exact book I wrote and published when I was in my twenties, just a naïve lad working in the travel industry and wondering if I should follow my father and brother and go to (shudder) law school.
I'm hard on it, but aren't we all hard on our early stuff? Remember that essay you wrote when you were in school, the one that got you an A-plus, the one your teacher called `inspired' - and one day you're going through your drawer and you find it and you read it and your heart sinks and you say, `Man, what was I thinking?' That's how it is with early novels sometimes.
Over the years, I've borrowed a bit from this book - names, places, even a character or two. Close readers may recognize that and will hopefully smile.
Finally, flawed and all, I love this book. There is an energy and risk-taking in Play Dead that I wonder if I still have. Youth, as they say, is wasted on the young. I'm not this guy anymore, but that's okay. None of us are stagnant with our passion and our work. That's a good thing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Brilliance Audio
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1469235420
• ISBN 13: 9781469235424
• Binding: Audio CD