WIN, Coben, Harlan [ebook and pdf reader .txt] 📗

spot what looks like a familiar tattoo peeking out from between her shoulder blades…

A Tisiphone abeona perhaps?

I almost stop, almost ask, but when my daughter turns and looks at me, all those grays suddenly vanish in the bright of her smile. For perhaps the first time in my life, I only see the white.

Am I being hackneyed? Perhaps.

But since when have I cared what you thought?

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Acknowledgments

I am an expert in very little and thus rely on the kindness of strangers and friends. With that in mind, I would like to thank in alphabetical order James Bradbeer, Fred Friedman, Larry Gagosian, Gurbir Grewal, Shan Kuang, and Beowulf Sheehan. These people are top specialists in a variety of fields, and so if mistakes are found in this text, I feel comfortable throwing them under the bus.

Ben Sevier has been my editor/publisher for a dozen books now. The rest of the team includes Michael Pietsch, Beth de Guzman (reuniting with my editor on Tell No One after a lot of years), Karen Kosztolnyik, Elizabeth Kulhanek, Rachael Kelly, Jonathan Valuckas, Matthew Ballast, Brian McLendon, Staci Burt, Andrew Duncan, Alexis Gilbert, Joe Benincase, Albert Tang, Liz Connor, Flamur Tonuzi, Kristen Lemire, Mari Okuda, Kamrun Nesa, Selina Walker (heading up the UK team), Charlotte Bush, Glenn O’Neill, Lisa Erbach Vance, Diane Discepolo, Charlotte Coben, Anne Armstrong-Coben and, perhaps most important, Person I’m Forgetting Who Is Very Forgiving.

I’d also like to give a quick shout-out to Jill Garrity, Elena Randolph, Karen Young, Pierre-Emmanuel Claux, and Don Quest. These people (or their loved ones) made generous contributions to charities of my choosing in return for having their name appear in this novel. If you’d like to participate in the future, email giving@harlancoben.com for details.

Win is telling me that I’ve gone on long enough, but I know that he’d cut me some slack to thank you for requesting this book and taking the journey with us. You, dear reader, rock out loud. Articulate.

About the Author

Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world’s leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries, with seventy-five million books in print worldwide. His Myron Bolitar series has earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many of his books have been developed into Netflix series, including his adaptation of The Stranger, headlined by Richard Armitage, and The Woods. He lives in New Jersey.

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Also by Harlan Coben

Play Dead

Miracle Cure

Deal Breaker

Drop Shot

Fade Away

Back Spin

One False Move

The Final Detail

Darkest Fear

Tell No One

Gone for Good

No Second Chance

Just One Look

The Innocent

Promise Me

The Woods

Hold Tight

Long Lost

Caught

Live Wire

Shelter

Stay Close

Seconds Away

Six Years

Missing You

Found

The Stranger

Fool Me Once

Home

Don’t Let Go

Run Away

The Boy from the Woods