''First my brother had run off,'' Will narrates. The next morning Will wakes up to find his beautiful and mysterious lover, Sheila Rogers, has left him, leaving behind a note that says she will always love him.īefore long, the feds are on his case about his brother, and about Sheila, whose fingerprints were found, they tell him, in New Mexico, at the scene of a double homicide. We meet Will while he's sitting shivah for his mother, Sunny, whose last coherent words to him were ''He's alive.

''Gone For Good'' is about Will Klein, whose brother Ken has been missing for 11 years - after being suspected of killing Will's onetime girlfriend, Julie Miller. ''Tell No One'' is about a doctor who's been walking wounded since his wife died years before one day he learns she may still be alive, but he should ''Tell no one.'' It's a wild, non-stop ride to find out if her death was faked, who really died, why everyone is still in danger and how to beat the bad guys. We're allowed the jock analogy because Coben used to write about a sports agent.īut ''Gone For Good'' has more in common with ''Tell No One'' than it does with the Myron Bolitar series.

This year he starts ''Gone For Good'' with a base hit, and needs some reader help to get around to second and third before he finally steals home with a terrific last third of the novel. In 2001 Harlan Coben hit a grand-slam with ''Tell No One,'' which grabbed readers on the first page and carried them screaming around the bases to the last great page.

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