The hook is a powerful one, and the twists and tension keeps up in this brilliant page-tuner. The love and loss he feels for Elizabeth makes the reader feel for his frantic plight. Desperate to shed light on her disappearance, David follows the order to ‘tell no one’ but for how long? Out on his own, suspicions turn on him as powerful sources are prepared to destroy him in order to keep their secrets.ĭavid is a likable lead, typical of Coben’s stand-alones (of which this is his first), he’s an everyman in an extraordinary situation. Then a mysterious e-mail arrives on the anniversary of their first kiss: a message and image that leads David to wonder if Elizabeth could still be alive. He’s finished med-school and become a paediatrician working with ghetto kids in Manhattan. David Beck and his childhood sweetheart Elizabeth are on vacation when he is knocked unconscious in a brutal attack that sees Elizabeth being murdered, supposedly by a serial killer called KillRoy.Įight years later and David Beck has rebuilt his life.
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