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Gone for Good
by: Harlan Coben

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Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780440236733
ISBN: 0440236738
Label: Dell
Manufacturer: Dell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 432
Publication Date: March 04, 2003
Publisher: Dell
Release Date: March 04, 2003
Studio: Dell
Sales Rank: 6926

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Product Description:
As a boy, Will Klein had a hero: his older brother, Ken. Then, on a warm suburban night in the Kleins’ affluent New Jersey neighborhood, a young woman—a girl Will had once loved—was found brutally murdered in her family’s basement. The prime suspect: Ken Klein. With the evidence against him overwhelming, Ken simply vanished. And when his shattered family never heard from Ken again, they were sure he was gone for good.

Now eleven years have passed. Will has found proof that Ken is alive. And this is just the first in a series of stunning revelations as Will is forced to confront startling truths about his brother, and even himself. As a violent mystery unwinds around him, Will knows he must press his search all the way to the end. Because the most powerful surprises are yet to come.

Amazon.com Review:
"The ugliest truth, in the end, was still better than the prettiest of lies." So says Will Klein, whose search for his missing and allegedly murderous brother, Ken, leaves him doubting the actions of everybody he's ever loved.

Eleven years ago, Ken fled his family's suburban New Jersey neighborhood after Will's ex-girlfriend, Julie Miller, was raped and strangled. The Kleins eventually convinced themselves that Ken perished on the lam. But as Will discovers, the facts are not so simple. On her deathbed, his mother tells him that Ken is still alive. Then Will's girlfriend and "soul mate" disappears too, only to have her fingerprints turn up at a New Mexico homicide scene. How are these tragedies connected? And what's their relationship to the recent appearance of a contract killer known as the Ghost? With help from an abused ex-hooker, a former white supremacist turned yoga guru, and Julie's younger sister, Will finds himself in a tightly twisted plot that turns on double identities and misplaced trust and that forces him to dig for the courage he was always sure he lacked.

Although the premise sounds much like that of Harlan Coben's last book, the acclaimed Tell No One, and the books' ingenuous protagonists are nearly interchangeable, Gone for Good quickly establishes its separate but equally suspenseful identity. This is a tale of manifold deceptions guaranteed to show its readers up as suckers, and to make them love every moment of the experience. --J. Kingston Pierce

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- save your time
I can't believe how many great reviews this book got. It's not very good, and rates my second star only because I was curious enough to finish it. The two-dimensional characters and an overly-contrived, twisted plot prove disappointing. Several plot twists are based on the easy, convenient on "Guess what? I lied" - now that's a cheap device, maybe nearly as bad as "it was all a dream."

If you want a great thriller, read Michael Connelly.

Rating:

- Deja Vu
This is my 2nd Harlan Coben book, & I'm equally disappointed. Both books have essentially the same theme, something happened years ago, a whole bunch of characters who utimately all end up interlinked (seems I'm the only one not connected to one of the characters!); really poorly defined characters & far-out twists! I'm done with Coben.

Rating:

- A book that makes a cross-country flight pass like minutes
Harlan Coben crafts complex plots that remain plausible. He also has a talent for spicing his stories with great metaphors and similes. Gone for Good moves with speed and assurance. The speed of a thriller and the assurance of a master storyteller. If you're a Coben fan and haven't read Gone for Good, you need to add it to your library. If you've never tried Coben, Gone for Good will make you an avid reader of his books.

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Rating:

- excellent thriller
This is my first book by this author, and I enjoyed it very much. It's the story of Will Klein, a social worker in Manhattan whose life changed 11 years ago when his brother was accused of killing Will's ex-girlfriend. The story begins when Will's mother, dying of cancer, tells him that his brother (who's been missing and presumed dead for those 11 years), is alive. Shortly afterward, Will's soulmate disappears and is implicated in a double homicide in another state.

The story is interesting and filled with lots of plot twists and fascinating characters. If there was any fault it was in the too goody-goody narrative voice, but that naivete was important to the story, and I would happily read another book by this author.

Rating:

- Amazing Plot Twists
This book is absolutely fantastic. Harlan Coben has a great writing style and this novel filled with twists right up to the very last page. This is the first of Coben's novels that I've read but it looks like they all have solid reviews. I'm definately a fan and plan to read all of his novels.

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