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Average rating3.7
Five years ago, an innocent man began a life sentence for murdering his own son. Today he found out his son is still alive. David Burroughs was once a devoted father to his three-year-old son Matthew, living a dream life just a short drive away from the working-class suburb where he and his wife, Cheryl, first fell in love--until one fateful night when David woke suddenly to discover Matthew had been murdered while David was asleep just down the hall. Half a decade later, David’s been wrongly accused and convicted of the murder, left to serve out his time in a maximum-security prison—a fate which, grieving and wracked with guilt, David didn’t have the will to fight. The world has moved on without him. Then Cheryl’s younger sister, Rachel, makes a surprise appearance during visiting hours bearing a strange photograph. It’s a vacation shot of a bustling amusement park a friend shared with her, and in the background, just barely in frame, is a boy bearing an eerie resemblance to David’s son. Even though it can’t be, David just knows: Matthew is still alive. David plans a harrowing escape, determined to achieve the impossible – save his son, clear his own name, and discover the real story of what happened. But with his life on the line and the FBI following his every move, can David evade capture long enough to reveal the shocking truth?
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My first Harlan Coben book, even though I have watched the Netflix series based on his book Fool Me Once. Interesting story, fast paced, action packed, kept me engaged throughout with no dull pages. Every once in a while, I had to skip a few sentences because my heart was in my mouth, and I wanted to know what happens without waiting for the sequence to play through. (Fast forward please). Very unbelievable plot developments and details are employed but in the pace of the story, they can be forgiven. I may be feeling generous with the rating, it looks like I enjoy everything I get my hands on!
3.5 stars!!!
This was my first Harlan Coben and I had a good time! I didn't go into this expecting anything but I enjoyed the book enough to read the whole thing in one day. I'm not normally a fan of mysteries that have a police officer point of view, but the cop in this was super shady and downright horrible so I enjoyed it? My biggest complaint is that it felt unrealistic how easily the main character was able to avoid cops and just get away with everything that he did. I did enjoy the writing enough to read some of this author's backlog, so I'm excited for that!
Thank you to Grand Central Publishing and NetGalley for providing me with an eBook copy to review.