The Boy from the Woods
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4.3 • 125 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
A man with a mysterious past must find a missing teenage girl in this shocking thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Run Away.
Thirty years ago, Wilde was found as a boy living feral in the woods, with no memory of his past. Now an adult, he still doesn't know where he comes from, and another child has gone missing.No one seems to take Naomi Pine's disappearance seriously, not even her father—with one exception. Hester Crimstein, a television criminal attorney, knows through her grandson that Naomi was relentlessly bullied at school.
Hester asks Wilde—with whom she shares a tragic connection—to use his unique skills to help find Naomi.Wilde can't ignore an outcast in trouble, but in order to find Naomi he must venture back into the community where he has never fit in, a place where the powerful are protected even when they harbor secrets that could destroy the lives of millions ... secrets that Wilde must uncover before it's too late.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
With its unlikely duo of heroes, Harlan Coben’s new thriller is not your standard kidnapping whodunit. When two New Jersey high schoolers go missing, 70-year-old truth-bomb-dropping lawyer and TV personality Hester Crimstein and a man of mysterious origins known only as Wilde—who raised himself in the woods from boyhood—team up to work the case. They quickly get tangled in a messy ransom tale involving a reality-star-turned-senator with an eerily familiar penchant for decrying “fake news.” This propulsive mystery reminded us that wealth and power don’t always play nice with ethics.
Customer Reviews
Awful
Total absence of any believable or engaging characters and a ridiculous story to boot. Don't bother with it.