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Paul Copeland's sister went missing twenty years ago. Now raising a daughter alone, Cope balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything. Is this body one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive...? Confronting his past, Cope must decide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be brought to light... Paul Copeland's sister went missing twenty years ago. Now raising a daughter alone, Cope balances family life with a career as a prosecutor. But when a homicide victim is found with evidence linking him to Cope, the well-buried secrets of the past are threatening everything. Is this body one of the campers who disappeared with his sister? Could his sister be alive...? Confronting his past, Cope must decide what is better left hidden in the dark and what truths can be brought to light... Hide

Elég egy váratlan hajnali telefonhívás és egy rég nem hallott a hang a vonal másik végén, hogy Myron Bolitar, a keményöklű játékosügynök ismét egy első ránézésre megoldhatatlan rejtély kellős közepén találja magát. Nyolc éve, hogy utoljára találkozott a gyönyörű Terese Collinsszal, aki most arra kéri, utazzon Párizsba. Myron sejti, hogy nem csupán egy romantikus randevú várja a szerelem városában, ám amikor a repülőtérre érve rendőrök fogadják, majd hamarosan kiderül, hogy Terese az első számú gyanúsítottja egy gyilkosságnak, úgy érzi, zsákutcába került. Nem ismeri sem a nyelvet, sem a szokásokat, így aligha tud bármit is kinyomozni. De mielőtt alaposabban végiggondolhatná a helyzetet, történik valami, ami új megvilágításba helyezi az ügyet. Ekkor borítottam rá az asztalt. Amint leült mellém, azonnal végiggondoltam a lehetőségeket. Már tudtam, miről van szó: emberrablás. Ha beszállok a furgonba, nekem lőttek. Hallották már azt a nagy bölcsességet, hogy az emberrablásoknál mindig az első negyvennyolc óra a legkritikusabb? Amit nem szoktak hozzátenni talán, mert annyira nyilvánvaló , hogy minden másodperccel csökken az esélye annak, hogy valaha is megtalálják az áldozatot. Itt ugyanez volt a helyzet. Ha beszállok abba a kocsiba, túlélési esélyeim a minimumra csökkennek. Ha felállok, és elindulok a furgon felé, szintén romlanak a kilátásaim. Ráadásul Sebhelyes Fej nem számít korai ellencsapásra. Azt hiszi, szépen begyakorolt kis monológját hallgatom. Nem jelentek fenyegetést. Így hát a meglepetés erejére építettem. Egy pillanatra ő is odanézett, hogy meggyőződjön, valóban ott áll-e a kocsi. Ennyi elég is volt. Az asztal peremét már korábban megmarkoltam. Lábizmaim megfeszültek. Úgy pattantam föl, mintha dobbantóról ugranék. Az asztallap egyenesen az arcába csapódott. Harlan Coben napjaink egyik legnépszerűbb krimiírója. Regényeit a műfaj gyöngyszemeiként tartják számon, eddig negyven különböző nyelvre fordították le, és közel 50 millió (!) példányt adtak el belőlük világszerte.

The 2am phone call is from a young, frightened, lost girl who has called the one adult who had promised to help her if she ever got into any trouble: Myron Bolitar. But Myron's help proves not to be enough. He picks up her up from a cold street corne r and take her back to safety. But - against his better judgment - she persuades him to drop her at an unknown address. This is a mistake that he lives to regret, for Aimee Biel's final wave from a darkened porch turns out to be the last time anyone will see her...Driven by guilt and the desperation of her family, Myron decides to break his vow of six years and get involved in the search himself. But his past will not be buried so easily...and Myron must decide once and for all who he is and wha t he will stand up for if he is to have any hope of rescuing both Aimee and himself.

Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid never gave her parents a moment's worry. Until one morning her mother wakes to find that Haley didn't come home the night before. Three months quickly pass without a word, and everyone assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a re

From the internationally NO.1 bestselling master of suspense comes a fast-paced, emotion-packed novel about guilt, grief, and our capacity to forgive. Seventeen-year-old Haley McWaid is a good girl, the pride of her suburban New Jersey family, captain of the lacrosse team, headed off to college next year with all the hopes and dreams her doting parents can pin on her. Which is why, when her mother wakes one morning to find that Haley never came home the night before, and three months quickly pass without word from the girl, the community assumes the worst. Wendy Tynes is a reporter on a mission, to identify and bring down sexual predators via elaborate and nationally televised sting operations. Working with local police on her news program Caught in the Act, Wendy and her team have publicly shamed dozens of men by the time she encounters her latest target. Dan Mercer is a social worker known as a friend to troubled teens, but his story soon becomes more complicated than Wendy could have imagined. In a novel that challenges as much as it thrills, filled with the astonishing tension and unseen suburban machinations that have become Coben's trademark, Caught tells the story of a missing girl, the community stunned by her loss, the predator who may have taken her, and the reporter who suddenly realizes she can't trust her own instincts about this case, or the motives of the people around her.

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Investigator and sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret and a man's lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business - where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.

Naozaj poznáte vlastné deti? Tia a Mike Bayovci nechceli svoje deti špehovať. No ich šestnásťročný syn Adam sa znepokojujúco zmenil – a keďže jeho najlepší kamarát Spencer Hill nedávno spáchal samovraždu, nemôžu potlačiť strach. Tak dajú synovi na počítač nainštalovať monitorovací program, aby vedeli, aké stránky navštevuje, s akými ľuďmi sa kontaktuje a o čom si s nimi píše. Nedozvedia sa všetko – ale čo odhalia, vyzerá ako potvrdenie ich najhorších obáv. Betsy Hillová náhodou zistí, že posledná noc jej syna Spencera nebola taká, ako si myslela. Odrazu sa vynárajú otázky. Kto môže za smrť Spencera Hilla? A prečo z rodičovského domu náhle zmizol Adam Baye? Odpovede vedú len k ďalším záhadám. Zúfalí rodičia sa vrhajú do pátrania na vlastnú päsť, zatiaľ čo v ich okolí vyčíňa sadistický vrah.

Naozaj poznáte vlastné deti? Tia a Mike Bayovci nechceli svoje deti špehovať. No ich šestnásťročný syn Adam sa znepokojujúco zmenil – a keďže jeho najlepší kamarát Spencer Hill nedávno spáchal samovraždu, nemôžu potlačiť strach. Tak dajú synovi na počítač nainštalovať monitorovací program, aby vedeli, aké stránky navštevuje, s akými ľuďmi sa kontaktuje a o čom si s nimi píše. Nedozvedia sa všetko – ale čo odhalia, vyzerá ako potvrdenie ich najhorších obáv. Betsy Hillová náhodou zistí, že posledná noc jej syna Spencera nebola taká, ako si myslela. Odrazu sa vynárajú otázky. Kto môže za smrť Spencera Hilla? A prečo z rodičovského domu náhle zmizol Adam Baye? Odpovede vedú len k ďalším záhadám. Zúfalí rodičia sa vrhajú do pátrania na vlastnú päsť, zatiaľ čo v ich okolí vyčíňa sadistický vrah.

She's smart, beautiful, and she doesn't need a man to look after her. But sports agent Myron Bolitar has come into her lifebig time. Now Myron's next move may be his last. Brenda Slaughter is no damsel in distress. Myron Bolitar is no bodyguard. Bu t Myron has agreed to protect the bright, strong, beautiful basketball star. And he's about to find out if he's man enough to unravel the tragic riddle of her life. Twenty years before, Brenda's mother deserted her. And just as Brenda is making it to the top of the women's pro basketball world, her father disappears too. A big-time New York sports agent with a foundering love life, Myron has a professional interest in Brenda. Then a personal one. But between them isn't just the difference in t heir backgrounds or the color of their skin. Between them is a chasm of corruption and lies, a vicious young mafioso on the make, and one secret that some people are dying to keepand others are killing to protect.... "Must reading... Combines Chandl er's wry wit with Ross Macdonald's moral complexity." -- Philadelphia Inquirer

Harlan Coben's millions of fans have waited three long years for a new Myron Bolitar novel and soon their patience will be rewarded in spectacular fashion. Myron hasn't heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended without explanation. He's had no contact with her since, so her call catches him off guard. She's in Paris, she says, in trouble and only Myron can help. Terese tells him a sad story she's never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born, the day everything she'd ever loved was taken from her. As the years passed Terese heard nothing from her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris. But on arrival, Terese finds her husband has been murdered, leaving her as a prime suspect. Then comes a startling piece of evidence that turns the entire case upside down, laying bare Terese's long-buried family secrets in the most shocking way and leaving Myron nowhere to turn for help. Caught in a foreign landscape where nothing is as it seems, he must tear apart the city - and eventually the globe - fighting for answers to unfathomable questions that will take Myron, and Harlan Coben's readers, where they have never gone before.

The boy was born and raised on the Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets - last seen in a down-town cheater's hotel. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, his client, superstar Linda Coldren, comes first, and that means unravelling the myste