Darkest Fear: A Myron Bolitar Novel: 7 - Softcover

Coben, Harlan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0440246202 ISBN 13: 9780440246206

Publisher: Dell, 2013

Synopsis

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 Sentinel

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Review:

Darkest Fear represents an interesting transition between Coben's comparatively lightweight and formulaic early novels and his more recent, nervier and darker novels such as Tell No One and Gone for Good. It is part of the series dealing with the misadventures of Myron Bolitar, sports agent and occasional investigator, but this time Myron has more than the convenience of his clients on his mind. An old girlfriend turns up with the revelation that her son is dying for a bone-marrow transplant--and that the son is his. Myron has always had an overdeveloped sense of personal responsibility and this time it goes into overdrive. He, and his efficiently violent friend Win, find themselves involved with one of the richest and most secretive families in America, with a particularly brutal serial kidnapper and murderer and with the FBI on one of its off days.

Coben takes his wise-cracking series hero and puts him in real physical and emotional jeopardy--the book is impressive, and a decisive break with the formula he had established earlier. After this, gloomier and more dangerous books were inevitable, and protagonists less fundamentally cheerful than the ebullient Myron. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

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

About this edition

• Publisher: Dell
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0440246202
• ISBN 13: 9780440246206
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 368