Home - Harlen Coben

Harlen Coben is one of those authors who is able to give you a book that just starts wham into the story and lets you straight into the action with a set of old friends.  Like Lee Child/Peter James/Nelson DeMille and Kathy Reichs I can instantly see the book in my head like a mini movie playing away.

Myron Bolitar and his friend win are back, tracking down two boys who were abducted two years ago at age six.  Now they have been seen in London and Win wants them back now.  So it is action packed with twists and turns, computers and knives - yet all done with humor and intelligence.    4/5

Long Lost - Harlen Coben

Long Lost - Harlen Coben (2009)

I had kinda fallen out of love with Harlen Coben.  Like most of the thriller writers, he seemed to have lost his way and went to stay in formula land.  So picking up this one, I saw little flares of the author I liked so much, his try hard use of modern music.

It was a simple read, an ex who calls from Paris needing help.  A dead body, guns, vans, terrorists, French cops and all the usual suspects.  An easy pick up at lunch time in a stressful week deserving of a 3/5.