Darkest Fear

Zusatztext 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 Informationen zum Autor Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in forty-one languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series ( Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear, Promise Me, Long Lost, and Live Wire ), Coben is also the author of the young adult Mickey Bolitar series including Shelter and Seconds Away , and of Miracle Cure, Play Dead, Tell No One, Gone for Good, No Second Chance, Just One Look, The Innocent, The Woods, Hold Tight , Caught , and Stay Close . Klappentext 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 SentinelAn hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like a urinal cake. "Well?" Mom prompted. Myron battled his throat, won a costly victory, swallowed. "Not bad." Mom shook her head, disappointed. "What?" "I'm a lawyer," Mom said. "You'd think I'd have raised a better liar." "You did the best you could," Myron said. She shrugged and waved a hand at the, uh, pastry. "It's my first time baking, bubbe . It's okay to tell me the truth." "It's like biting into a urinal cake," Myron said. "A what?" "In men's public bathrooms. In the urinals. They put them there for the smell or something." "And you eat them?" "No--" "Is that why your father takes so long in there? He's having a little Tastykake? And here I thought his prostate was acting up." "I'm joking, Mom." She smiled through blue eyes tinged with a red that Visine could never hope to get out, the red you can only get through slow, steady tears. Normally Mom was heavily into histrionics. Slow, steady tears were not her style. "So am I, Mr. Smarty Pants. You think you're the only one in this family with a sense of humor?" Myron said nothing. He look...

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

Auteur
Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in forty-one languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series (Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear, Promise Me, Long Lost, and Live Wire), Coben is also the author of the young adult Mickey Bolitar series including Shelter and Seconds Away, and of Miracle Cure, Play Dead, Tell No One, Gone for Good, No Second Chance, Just One Look, The Innocent, The Woods, Hold Tight, Caught, and Stay Close.

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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

Résumé
“Fast-paced . . . layered with both tenderness and fun . . . Coben [is] a gifted storyteller.”—The Denver Post

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 terrific novel . . . Coben’s professionalism is clear from every paragraph in the book.”—The Boston Globe

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.

Échantillon de lecture
An hour before his world exploded like a ripe tomato under a stiletto heel, Myron bit into a fresh pastry that tasted suspiciously like a urinal cake.

"Well?" Mom prompted.

Myron battled his throat, won a costly victory, swallowed. "Not bad."

Mom shook her head, disappointed.

"What?"

"I'm a lawyer," Mom said. "You'd think I'd have raised a better liar."

"You did the best you could," Myron said.

She shrugged and waved a hand at the, uh, pastry. "It's…