Tell No One - Softcover

Coben, Harlan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0752844717 ISBN 13: 9780752844718

Publisher: Orion, 2007

Eight years ago David Beck was knocked unconscious and left for dead, and his wife Elizabeth was kidnapped and murdered.

For the next eight years Dr Beck re-lived the horror of what happened that day every day of his life. Then one afternoon, he receives an anonymous e-mail telling him to log on to a certain web-site at a certain
time, using a code that only he and his wife knew. The screen opens on to a web cam - and it is Elizabeth's image he sees. Is it a practical joke?

But as Beck tries to find out if Elizabeth is truly alive, and what really happened the night she disappeared, the FBI are trying to pin Elizabeth's murder on him. And everyone he turns to seems to end up dead...

Review:

Elizabeth was taken from David one night, tortured, killed and abandoned by the serial murderer known as KillRoy; he was left for dead. Eight years later, he gets an e-mail which leads him to a camera feed, and sees her standing on a street corner looking at him. And suddenly he is on the run, accused of her murder and of others, dependent on the whim of a violent pusher whose child's life he saved. Harlan Coben's new thriller Tell No One is a terrifying kinetic novel of abuse of power, false accusation and the things that go wrong with the most careful of schemes. David Beck is a memorable character--a dedicated doctor whose mourning for his wife has gradually become itself a sort of paralysis, but who has a surprising resilience under stress; he has not got much going for him in the terrible situations in which he finds himself, but he makes ingenious use of what he has got. This is an intelligent thriller in which we get to watch suspect, police and some very unpleasant heavies chase each other around in impressively convoluted circles. Coben is one of the best multiple-bluffers in the business. --Roz Kaveney

Review:

"Harlan Coben's Tell No One begins at a run and in no time is moving at an all-out sprint.... The characters are engaging and the strange goings-on will leave readers rapidly turning pages in search of fresh clues.... [Coben] writes with wit and a shrewd sense of plotting."
"San Francisco Chronicle"
"Set to be one of the big thriller reads of the summer.... Fifteen pages into this book, you're sucked in and Coben never lets the pace stall.... If it takes more than two days to finish this one, you're working too many hours. A hot summer rush."
"Detroit News"
"Compelling, cinematic ... with surprises in store for the reader until the very last page.... [readers will] savor every clue, every detail."
"USA Today"
"Coben knows how to move pages, and he generates considerable suspense."
"Publishers Weekly"
"A gloriously exciting yarn. ... A quest for answers that will have you burning the midnight oil till 3:00 a.m."
"Kirkus Reviews
"
"Coben's latest thriller is the book everyone should take to the beach this summer. ... Tell everyone to read Tell No One."
"Library Journal"
"Tell No One is such a terrific thriller, you'll want to tell everyone! Harlan Coben delivers the near-impossible a can't-put-it-down page-turner with a slam-bang surprise ending. You'll read this book in one breathless gulp!"
Lisa Scottoline, "New York Times" bestselling author of Moment of Truth
"Suspense at its finest."
Jeffery Deaver
"Non-stop action with plot twists galore."
Phillip Margolin
"A thriller of runaway tension."
Iris Johansen

"From the Hardcover edition.""

"Harlan Coben's Tell No One begins at a run and in no time is moving at an all-out sprint.... The characters are engaging and the strange goings-on will leave readers rapidly turning pages in search of fresh clues.... [Coben] writes with wit and a shrewd sense of plotting."
-- San Francisco Chronicle

"Set to be one of the big thriller reads of the summer.... Fifteen pages into this book, you're sucked in and Coben never lets the pace stall.... If it takes more than two days to finish this one, you're working too many hours. A hot summer rush."
-- Detroit News

"Compelling, cinematic ... with surprises in store for the reader until the very last page.... [readers will] savor every clue, every detail."
-- USA Today

"Coben knows how to move pages, and he generates considerable suspense."
-- Publishers Weekly

"A gloriously exciting yarn. ... A quest for answers that will have you burning the midnight oil till 3:00 a.m."
-- Kirkus Reviews

"Coben's latest thriller is the book everyone should take to the beach this summer. ... Tell everyone to read Tell No One."
-- Library Journal

"Tell No One is such a terrific thriller, you'll want to tell everyone! Harlan Coben delivers the near-impossible -- a can't-put-it-down page-turner with a slam-bang surprise ending. You'll read this book in one breathless gulp!"
-- Lisa Scottoline, New York Times bestselling author of Moment of Truth

"Suspense at its finest."
-- Jeffery Deaver

"Non-stop action with plot twists galore."
-- Phillip Margolin

"A thriller of runaway tension."
-- Iris Johansen

From the Hardcover edition.

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0752844717
• ISBN 13: 9780752844718
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352