For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.

Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and his dead wife know. Suddenly Beck is taunted with the impossible -- that somewhere, somehow, Elizabeth is alive.

Beck has been warned to tell no one. And he doesn't. Instead, he runs from the people he trusts the most, plunging headlong into a search for the shadowy figure whose messages hold out a desperate hope.

But already Beck is being hunted down. He's headed straight into the heart of a dark and deadly secret -- and someone intends to stop him before he gets there.


From the Hardcover edition.

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“Suspense at its finest...” —Jeffrey Deaver

“A can’t-put-it-down page-turner...”—Lisa Scottoline

“Non-stop action with plot twists galore...”—Phillip Margolin

“A thriller of runaway tension...”—Iris Johansen


From the Paperback edition.

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Harlan Coben is the author of six previous novels:  The Final Detail, One False Move, Back Spin, the Edgar Award and Shamus Award-winning Fade Away, Drop Shot, and Deal Breaker, which won an Anthony Award and received an Edgar Award nomination.  He lives in New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and two sons. Visit his website at www.harlancoben.com.

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