Gone for Good - Softcover

Coben, Harlan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440236738 ISBN 13: 9780440236733

Publisher: Dell Pub Co, 2003

Synopsis

As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.

Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come.

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Review:

In Gone for Good Harlan Coben continues his self-redefinition as a writer of taut, grim thrillers about love and its vulnerabilities with even more success than in its predecessor Tell No One. Will has coped with the death of his ex-girlfriend, the disappearance of his brother Ken (the prime suspect in her rape and murder), as well as the demands of his job as a worker with the homeless and terminally messed-up of the New York streets. When it seems that his brother is alive after all, and his lover Sheila disappears, only to be fingered by the FBI as an accessory to murder, Will is at breaking point. Only his dangerous friend Squares and Will's determination to see justice done, and find out what he needs to to ensure it, keep him going during escalating unpleasantness. Will and Ken had some dangerous schoolfellows--among them the gangster McGuane and the assassin known as Ghost--and the roots of the jeopardy Will finds himself in lie years in his past.

Coben does paranoia and deceit as well as he did the good humour of his early sports thrillers--Will is a credible hero because he lives with his own weaknesses and is attractively unaware of his virtues and his charm. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

Harlan Coben's plot-spinning and characterisation skills reach a new peak in a thriller that has more twists and turns than the maze at the Hampton Court. (INDEPENDENT)

Tim Machin reads with total involvement, excelling as the lisping and spine-chilling villain. (INDEPENDENT)

This is a brilliantly plotted and utterly twisted tale. (SAINSBURY'S MAGAZINE)

Tim Machin reads with total involvement (INDEPENDENT MAGAZINE)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell Pub Co
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0440236738
• ISBN 13: 9780440236733
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback