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Live Wire
499 pages
An electric, stay-up-all-night thriller where a high-stakes missing persons case collides with deeply buried family secrets.
What it feels like
This electric, stay-up-all-night thriller pulls the reader into a tense and emotionally charged atmosphere where professional duty blurs into deeply personal stakes. The narrative unfolds at a breakneck, propulsive pace, balancing the adrenaline of a missing persons investigation with the heavy, introspective weight of family estrangement and long-buried lies. The prose is sharp and urgent, designed to keep pages turning while delivering surprising emotional depth as the protagonist confronts his own past. It is a gripping experience that explores the painful gap between pretty lies and ugly truths. Readers who crave fast-paced mysteries anchored by big-hearted heroes and messy, high-stakes family drama will find themselves completely absorbed in this suspenseful ride.
- Mood
- tense
- electric
- emotionally charged
- gripping
- Tone
- urgent
- suspenseful
- dramatic
- introspective
- Pace
- propulsive
- Themes
- family estrangement · the cost of lies · loyalty and betrayal · facing the past
- The writing
- Electric and fast-paced, designed to keep the reader turning pages late into the night while delivering sharp emotional hits.
- The arc
- Moves from a high-stakes professional rescue mission into a deeply personal confrontation with past family trauma and hidden truths.
- Who it's for
- Readers who love high-stakes, fast-paced mysteries that blend professional investigation with deep, messy family drama.
Content notes
- family estrangement
- parental illness
- pregnancy-related stress
- runaway spouse
About the book
Is a pretty lie better than the ugly truth?
Harlan Coben published his first Myron Bolitar thriller, Deal Breaker, in 1995, introducing a hero that would captivate millions. Over the years we have watched Myron walk a tight rope between sports agent, friend, problem solver and private eye, his big heart quick to defend his client’s interests so fiercely that he can’t help but jump in to save them, no matter the cost.
When former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off, and Suzze – at eight months pregnant – asks Myron to save her marriage, and perhaps her husband’s life. But when he finds Lex, he also finds someone he wasn’t looking for: his sister-in-law, Kitty, who along with Myron’s brother abandoned the Bolitar family long ago.
As Myron races to locate his missing brother while their father clings to life, he must face the lies that led to the estrangement – including the ones told by Myron himself. If we thought we knew Myron Bolitar, Coben now proves we didn’t. An electric, stay-up-all night thriller that unfolds at a breakneck pace, Live Wire proves that Harlan Coben still has the ability to shock us anew.
Description from Open Library.
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