Run Away: from the #1 bestselling creator of the hit Netflix series The Stranger

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Obviously, I enjoyed this story as well as Steve Weber's performance. I love that he’s narrating so many of the standalones as well as my beloved Myron Bolitar series. He just gets the characters and creates a vivid image for you with outstanding storytelling. This is a classic Coben story with all the elements you expect to see but around a unique story. I guessed one of the twists but missed a couple of others. The ending was provocative and though provoking, just how I like them to be. You don’t want to miss this one. Parts of this novel was crazy, thrilling and completely insane. Insert heart in throat, kind of insane. There was a part this novel that reminded me of Stephen King’s “Doctor Sleep” - if you’ve read that, you know what I’m talking about. Chilling. Simon Greene sits in Strawberry Fields in Central Park, watching this bedraggled homeless girl, playing and singing for money and butchering a version of the Beatles song, Penny Lane. Simon is a high-end financial advisor and his wife, Ingrid, is a paediatrician, both wealthy, happily married and supportive of their 3 children, yet here he watches his run-away daughter Paige. Her hair matted and her cheekbones sunken. She was rail-thin, raggedy, dirty, damaged, lost and a drug addict. He has searched a long time to find her and his heart breaks as he watches his beautiful daughter in such a decrepit and pitiful state. Run Away is Harlan Coben at the height of his narrative mastery... as a thriller it's a narcotic... unmissable." SHOTS MAGAZINE

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Run Away confirms one of the world’s finest thriller writers is at the very top of his game." PETER JAMESNow, I’ll be eagerly awaiting his next novel (fingers crossed it’s a Myron and Win novel, I need my Win fix desperately!).

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But, on the sly, Simon, continues to search for his daughter. Following up on a tip, Simon spots Paige, but gets into a physical altercation with Aaron. Paige seizes the opportunity and runs away from Simon. There were definitely some surprises to be had here, and there was some rich emotion and character development as well. There was one storyline that didn't work for me at all, and while I like where Coben took things, the addition of two characters really frustrated me when they appeared periodically. But other than that, this had my heart pounding, my brain scrambling to figure things out before the characters did, and might have even brought a tear to my eyes once or twice.Then, by chance, you see her playing guitar in Central Park. But she's not the girl you remember. This woman is living on the edge, frightened, and clearly in trouble. Simon Greene is given a tipoff that his estranged, drug addicted daughter is busking in Central Park, so he goes to find her, has an altercation with her junkie boyfriend, and she runs off. Simon and his wife try to find her, and so their lives spiral out of control as this leads them down a path that they, and the reader, would never have imagined. You've lost your daughter. She's addicted to drugs and to an abusive boyfriend. And she's made it clear that she doesn't want to be found. In Harlan Coben’s compulsive thrillers, every step the protagonists take to try to get themselves out of trouble creates two new dangers, each worse than the one before Morning Star Online

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This was a buddy read with Kaceey of course! Kaceey, I love our buddy reads, I think you know that. So glad we both love Harlan Coben so much! Can’t wait for our next one. Harlan was born in Newark, New Jersey. He still lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children.What little color Simon normally sees leeched out of the world when his daughter succumbed to a drug addiction that’s wasting her away, as though she’s taken the rest of it with her on her way out the door. A perfect family is shattered when their daughter goes missing in this "brilliantly executed" New York Times bestselling thriller from a "master storyteller" ( Providence Sunday Journal). I have been eagerly awaiting the publication of Run Away, Coben's latest thriller for several months, and was excited to get my hands on an advance copy a few days before its release. While this won't surpass Home as my favorite of his books, Coben has another terrific book on his hands. Simon Greene’s daughter Paige is missing. She fell in with a dodgy druggie – Aaron Corval, and has been estranged from her family ever since.