No Second Chance - Hardcover

Coben, Harlan

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0525947299 ISBN 13: 9780525947295

Publisher: E P Dutton, 2003

Synopsis

Harlan Coben returns with a thriller of explosive tension and breathless psychological suspense. No Second Chance is a breakneck ride where nothing is what it seems-and where hope and fear collide in the most surprising ways.

When the first bullet hit my chest, I thought of my daughter...

Marc Seidman awakens to find himself in an ICU, hooked up to an IV, his head swathed in bandages. Twelve days earlier, he had an enviable life as a successful surgeon, living in a peaceful suburban neighborhood with his beautiful wife and a baby he adored. Now he lies in a hospital bed, shot by an unseen assailant. His wife has been killed, and his six-month-old daughter, Tara, has vanished. But just when his world seems forever shattered, something arrives to give Marc new hope: a ransom note.

If you contact the authorities, we disappear. We will be watching. We want two million dollars. There will be no second chance.

The note is chilling, but Marc sees only one thing-he has the chance to save his daughter. He can't talk to the police or the FBI. He doesn't know who he can trust. And now the authorities are closing in on a new suspect: Marc himself. Mired in a deepening quicksand of violence and deadly secrets-about his wife, about an old love he's never forgotten, and about his own past-he clings to one, unwavering vow: to bring Tara home, at any cost.

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Review:

No Second Chance is yet another of Harlan Coben's terrifying explorations of the worst of fears--Marc Seidman wakes in hospital after narrowly surviving a shooting in which his wife died and their baby daughter went missing. The handover of a ransom from his rich in-laws goes wrong and Seidman realises that he is not only without wife and daughter--and the sister who may have been an accomplice--but he is also the principal suspect. The reader knows even more than Seidman just how much jeopardy he is in--Coben does a brilliantly disturbing job of introducing us to a pair of psychotics who are in charge of the ransom plot and who plan to take Seidman and his in-laws for another ride into insecurity and hell. Marc turns to the one person he thinks can help him--the ex-girlfriend who still has a place in his heart and used to be a senior Federal agent. The problem is that Rachel comes with baggage, and enemies, all of her own...

This is an impressive book about suspicion and how easy it is to make the wrong guesses; it is a triumph of misdirection. It also has that particular Coben touch--people are capable of behaving worse than you can possibly imagine, but also of acts of surprising grace. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"No Second Chance has a life of its own." --New York Times

"This crackling spellbinder will...keep you mesmerized from beginning...to head-spinning, unexpected end." --Forbes

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

"Thrillers as satisfying as No Second Chance clearly have the Coben stamp." --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

"No Second Chance has a life of its own." New York Times

"This crackling spellbinder will...keep you mesmerized from beginning...to head-spinning, unexpected end." Forbes

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

"Thrillers as satisfying as No Second Chance clearly have the Coben stamp." Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

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"No Second Chance has a life of its own." New York Times

"This crackling spellbinder will...keep you mesmerized from beginning...to head-spinning, unexpected end." Forbes

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

"Thrillers as satisfying as No Second Chance clearly have the Coben stamp." Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

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Praise for Harlan Coben and No Second Chance
-Nimble and ingenious.- -The New York Times

-The author doesn't build suspense. He opens fire.- New York Daily News

-At times the suspense in No Second Chance is almost painful.- -Chicago Sun-Times
-A wild ride made even more wrenching because the terrain is home, family, love, and loss.- -Houston Chronicle
-This crackling spellbinder will...keep you mesmerized from beginning...to head-spinning, unexpected end.- --Forbes

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

-Thrillers as satisfying as No Second Chance clearly have the Coben stamp.- --Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel

Praise for No Second Chance
"Nimble and ingenious."--The New York Times

"The author doesn't build suspense. He opens fire."--New York Daily News

"At times the suspense in No Second Chance is almost painful."--Chicago Sun-Times
"A wild ride made even more wrenching because the terrain is home, family, love, and loss."--Houston Chronicle
"This crackling spellbinder will...keep you mesmerized from beginning...to head-spinning, unexpected end."--Forbes

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

"Thrillers as satisfying as No Second Chance clearly have the Coben stamp."--Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
"The emotional onslaught of Marc's gut-wrenching, self-questioning, relentless narration...will carry readers like a tidal wave through the novel's twists and turns."--Publishers Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: E P Dutton
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0525947299
• ISBN 13: 9780525947295
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 338