Their perfect suburban life is shattered when Phoebe, their eldest, falls into a life of drugs and substance abuse and runs away from home. In Run Away, Simon Greene and Ingrid, his wife, live a cosy life somewhere in New Jersey. But this review is about his latest novel, Run Away, and boy, was it a damp squib for someone who’s been a Coben fangirl for close to 20 years. Tell No One was made into a movie by Hollywood, and if you subscribe to Netflix, chances are you will also have watched the Michael C Hall eight-part series, Safe, based on another novel by Coben. The easy camaraderie, office banter, and a compulsive need to do right by the world were the hallmarks of the Bolitar novels. If Coben’s standalone novels spoke of his adroit penmanship of introducing more plot twists in a story than there are potholes in Bengaluru, the Bolitar novels also were testament to his ability to create believable, reliable, relatable characters. Let’s also talk about his Myron Bolitar novels (sports agent with that awful name), featuring sidekick Windsor Horne Lockwood III, an affable playboy with some questionable tendencies. He had already to his credit a series with sports agent Myron Bolitar as a central character, but standalone Tell No One catapulted him into the pulp fiction stratosphere with its never-let-go, twist-a-minute plot, so much so that if you look him up online, chances are descriptors on search pages will list him as (author of Tell No One). Harlan Coben burst onto the scene with his thriller, Tell No One.
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