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Description: ISBN 0752842803 / Author: Harlan Coben / Genre: Crime / Thriller Newest Review: ... in his own home, he has little memory of the events that night and he also discovers that his wife is dead and his baby ... more |
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Format: audiobook on cassette, Publisher: Orion Publishing Co, IS
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Format: CD-Audio, ISBN: 9780752860435
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by shewhosmiles - written on 27.12.03 (Very useful, 115 readings)
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I read Tell No One by Harlan Coben several months ago and remembered liking his writing style when I saw No Second Chance on the library shelves. Harlan is a very good writer who knows how to draw you in and keep you interested with twists and turns in the plot, but the ending of Tell No One lacked the punch that I expected and hoped for as I approached the final chapters. As I began reading No Second Chance I felt a strong sense of familiarity and wondered if indeed it had been this novel that I'd read earlier. It wasn't but in both stories the hero is not long married and their wives are murdered in mysterious circumstances. I couldn't help ...
by kirstymack80 - written on 05.01.05 (Very useful, 95 readings)
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Dr Marc Seidman wakes up in the hospital to find his wife has been murdered and his baby daughter, Tara, has vanished from their home. He has been shot and cannot remember events leading up to the awful events of that day. He spends weeks lying in bed, himself the subject of the murder investigation as the only witness, powerless to go out and find his daughter. Weeks later a letter arrives – a ransom note – warning him that if he contacts the police he will never see his daughter again. There will be ‘no second chance’. Marc’s wife has a rich father, Edgar – therefore he stumps up the cool 2 million bucks that is demanded. However, Marc, torn between ...
by freediveheaven - written on 25.03.05 (Very useful, 375 readings)
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The question is just how far would you go to protect your family? Anyone who has been a parent would probably at some time or other have said that they would kill someone to protect their children. When you hear in the news about a paedophile or the abduction of a child the emotion is often one of wanting revenge and to inflict pain on the guilty but if the occasion actually arose could you actually do it? Pull the trigger? Stick the knife in? Beat someone to death? Look into someone eyes as you choke the life out of them? These are the questions that face Dr Marc Seidman a man who has dedicated his life to correcting facial deformities of children all over ...
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