Customer Reviews
Brilliant, fast, gripping! - By: I LOVE BOOKS, 03 Jun 2008 
At home. Breakfast time. Another ordinary day. But everything changes in the space of a minute. Plastic surgeon Marc is shot at & is left for dead. His wife Monica is shot at too & IS dead. Their baby, 6-month old Tara, is missing. Vanished.
Marc wakes up in the hospital & learns the terrible truth. What happened? Why? Where is his precious, lovely baby? The police investigate. His lawyer & best friend Lenny tries to help. But nothing comes up, only theories, & Marc is also under investigation as prime suspect. Time drags by. It dilates & expands frustratingly. A request for ransom ignites hope. And things start to change. But nothing could prepare Marc for what is in store for him.
Another brilliant mystery by Harlan Coben. As the title suggests, no second chance for Marc but indeed many more chances for Coben, who is able to grab the reader's attention with a fast-paced, edge-of-the-seat narrative, nothing is what it seems but in the end everything is clear, every little details fallls into the right place & there are no questions left unanswered. Great entertainment!
Gripping from beginning to end! - By: Hannah, 08 Mar 2008 Often I find books like this have an exciting first 100 pages & a good ending but drag in the middle - not this one!! This is the most gripping book I've read in a long time. Action packed from the first page, Marc tries to unfold who shot him, killed his wife & took his six month old daughter. The mystery is gripping & the outcome is impossible to predict. Coben captures the intensity of events, but maintains the believability of the story.
I found it impossible to put it down, reading it on the bus, during class time & long into the night. A must read for everyone who enjoys a good old mystery.
A Second Chance - By: Katie Osborne, 07 Jan 2008 Plastic surgeon Marc Seidman is shot in his home. He comes to twelve days later in the hospital & learns that his wife has been killed & his infant daughter Tara is missing. There are no leads, there is no ransom note & the police suspect Marc, however after he's released from the hospital a ransom note is finallly delivered. "No cops, two million dollars & no second chance if instructions are not followed," it says. But Marc does tells the cops, then delivers the money. His daughter is not returned.
A year & a half later a second ransom note arrives.
As usual Harlan Coben takes us on a walk down dark path of our deepest fears. We suffer along with Marc at the loss of his daughter, our heart quickens when we find out she may still be alive. Also, as usual, Coben slides between the first & second person point of view with such ease we hardly know he's done it. Coben spins words so well we don't even notice we're caught in the web till the story is finished.
Review submitted by Captain Katie Osborne
Fantastic - By: L. Thomas, 04 Jan 2008 Loved every bit of this book from beginning to end. Never new what was gonna happen next. Many twists & turns that carry on right to the end.
Difficult story to follow, reallly felt for the main character of the book.
Definitely warrants 5 stars!!!
I've now started reading 'The Innocent' which is abother Harlan Coben book.
Completely absorbing - By: Phoebe, 03 Dec 2007 This book was the cause of me not getting much sleep, not doing any ironing or cleaning, microwaving meals instead of cooking them properly, I just couldnt be away too long from the book. Utterly absorbing, exciting, thrilling, definiately a one more chapter kind of book. I wished the book was much thicker, couldnt wait to get to the end but sad when I did. I love Harlan Coben & have already bought two more of his books. Dont miss this author.
