Miracle Cure - Softcover

Coben, Harlan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0451239326 ISBN 13: 9780451239327

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group, 2013

Synopsis

A husband and wife race to find a cure for the disease that has inspired a serial killer to terrorize Manhattan in this classic medical thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben.

They're one of the country's most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York's hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds--threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time.

In a clinic on Manhattan's Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. One by one, they're being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease. There's only one cure, but many ways to die...

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Review

Praise for Miracle Cure

"Frightening."--Chicago Tribune

"Coben adroitly applies the fundamental rules of thrillerdom (offer a raft of potential villains; keep the action moving at breakneck speed) in this highly entertaining novel...a page-turner!"--Publishers Weekly

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 your 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 MIRACLE CURE in at least twenty years. It is my second published novel, one I wrote in my early twenties when I was just a naïve lad working in the travel industry and wondering if I should follow my father and brother 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 you got an A-plus on, 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. This one is a bit preachy in spots and sometimes dated (though in truth, I wish the medical stuff was more dated, but that's another matter). You might think I based part of this on a "real-life" situation. I didn't. This book predates that event. I won't say more because it could be a spoiler.

Finally, flawed and all, I love this book. There are energy and risk-taking in MIRACLE CURE that I wonder if I still have. I'm not this guy anymore, but that's okay. None of us is stagnant with your passion and our work. That's a good thing.

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0451239326
• ISBN 13: 9780451239327
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 432