Tell No One
A Novel
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- 6,99 $US
Description de l’éditeur
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible—that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.
Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn't. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.
But already Beck is being hunted down. He's headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret—and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Every writer likes to stretch his legs, and here Coben, author of seven acclaimed Myron Bolitar mysteries (Darkest Fear, etc.), stretches his. He doesn't quite kick his reputation aside in the process. This thriller, Coben's first non-Bolitar novel, is a breezy enough read, but it's not up to snuff. It's got a nifty setup, though. David Beck and Elizabeth Parker, just-married childhood sweethearts, are vacationing at the Beck family retreat when Beck is knocked unconscious and Elizabeth is kidnapped. Cut to eight years later: Beck is a young physician working with ghetto kids in Manhattan, and Elizabeth, we learn, is dead, victim of a serial killer known as KillRoy. Or is she? For immediately after two bodies eight years old are uncovered on the Beck land, Beck receives a series of e-mails apparently from Elizabeth. His frantic search to find out if she lives dovetails with the equally frenzied efforts of cops to pin Elizabeth's murder on Beck, as well as the antic moves of a mysterious billionaire an old friend of the Beck family and his two hired thugs to frame Beck for that murder. Beck finds himself a man on the run from the cops his only ally a black drug dealer whose child he's treating for hemophilia caught in an overcomplicated tangle of lies and vengeance. Coben knows how to move pages, and he generates considerable suspense, but there's little new here. The narrative style is cloned from James Patterson, alternating first-person with third. The villains, particularly the billionaire and a Chinese martial artist, are as old as mid Elmore Leonard or even Chandler. The black drug dealer isn't a character, he's a plot device, and the climax packs the emotional wallop of a strong episode of The Rockford Files.
Avis d’utilisateurs
Good book but..
This is a great book I can say that I was very interested till the end but, it took me longer to read I didn’t feel so attached to the book to where I couldn’t put it down. I love the plot the twist turns when I would read a couple chapters I felt anxiety & fear for Beck! It took me almost a week and a half to finish it what kind of made me just skim through some pages was the massive detail in how I felt Beck would get distracted and tell a story in very very long detail instead of summarizing to get to the point of why he’s telling it. I kind of got confused with some of the characters but as I kept reading I got the characters down. The ending is just ugh makes you mad lol! Makes you think omg this whole time he’s the reason for people getting hurt! All & all good book but wouldn’t read another title by the author.
My first book from Coben
It was so good the writing the pacing the twist and turns were amazing it was hard to put down honestly and good quick read I will read it again in a couple of years loved it !
Plot Twist!!
This book will keep on your toes! There are so many twist and turns, it’s hard to keep up! It’s a must read!!