Robert's review
No Second Chance
by Harlan Coben
Robert's review
No Second Chance by Harlan Coben
Robert's review
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Harlan Coben, No Second Chance (Dutton, 2003)
Harlan Coben checks in with his ninth novel, No Second Chance. With all the publicity surrounding his last novel, Coben has become something of a household name in the Internet comunity, but the larger non-hardcore-mystery-reading book community has probably never heard the name. I'd like to say that No Second Chance will be the book that will change all that, but it probably won't. Not to say it isn't a good, solid read.
Marc Seidman, his wife Monica, and their six month old daughter Tara live in New Jersey, not far from New York City. They are not the perfect family, but they get along, like most families do. That is, until one night when Marc is standing at the kitchen sink eating a granola bar and takes two shots. He wakes up twelve days later in the ICU, his bedside flanked with a nurse and a police detective. From the two of them, he learns that his wife is dead, his daughter is missing, and he's been unconscious and presumed a vege...more
Harlan Coben checks in with his ninth novel, No Second Chance. With all the publicity surrounding his last novel, Coben has become something of a household name in the Internet comunity, but the larger non-hardcore-mystery-reading book community has probably never heard the name. I'd like to say that No Second Chance will be the book that will change all that, but it probably won't. Not to say it isn't a good, solid read.
Marc Seidman, his wife Monica, and their six month old daughter Tara live in New Jersey, not far from New York City. They are not the perfect family, but they get along, like most families do. That is, until one night when Marc is standing at the kitchen sink eating a granola bar and takes two shots. He wakes up twelve days later in the ICU, his bedside flanked with a nurse and a police detective. From the two of them, he learns that his wife is dead, his daughter is missing, and he's been unconscious and presumed a vege...more
