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The host of American writers with Jewish roots is completed by great geniuses ranging from Philip Roth a Isaac Asimov, or Saul bellow but also Paul auster. Just some of the most recognized examples of bibliographies made in jews that address a multitude of genres or even trace creative avant-gardes.
Harlan coben He belongs to the new generation of writers who still retain that identity stamp of the Jewish adapted to American circumstances. And the thing is that in this case, the most open and cosmopolitan United States seems to have become the best of places to house all kinds of origins and beliefs (parné by, yes).
But demographic changes aside and focusing on the protagonist of this post, discovering Coben is always an invitation to a fast-paced reading. The Coben plots are a game towards solving an enigma with police overtones, with some criminal on the loose to complete their stories with the tension of walking under the spotlight or near the edge of the knife.
The best thing about Coben is that, once you walk through the door of his books and sit down to attend to his proposal, the matter splashes you and involves you from the second one. Coben is a hypnotic storyteller, a kind of advocate for his narrative cause that captivates you into the darkness, and that many times ends up becoming the devil's advocate for his unpredictable twists that have made him famous worldwide.
Harlan Coben's Top 3 Recommended Books
Do not tell anybody
Sometimes the saddest secret is one that you can end up sharing with your most ruthless enemy or with your most devastating fear. David Beck has a lot to know about the death of his beloved Elizabeth.
The tree that sheltered his love seems to contain secrets to transmit from his vital energy, and the echoes of the truth come as a whisper to the hazy understanding of a David who still lives in the past, the critical moment with his millions of options to avoid the death, and a future that does not end up appearing as the horizon that finally calms his unease.
Justice is about to take care of the murderer's life. And that's when death begins to play its new cards and reveal its sinister secrets.
One wrong step
Of the saga of Mylon Bolitar, the atypical agent of athletes who ends up serving the cause of the saga to intrude into the kitchen of any other character, this novel is for me the most alive, the one that most authentically moves us through that argument of impossible turns.
Because when money, passions and intertwined interests are at stake, any plot in Coben's hands works like a vibrant game of cards on a table where millions are at stake as soon as human lives. Bolitar is a puppet in the hands of the narrator who places him in the middle of an uncontrollable but underground fray that can end in any way and with little chance that this way will be friendly.
Six years
The best thing about Coben is that, despite participating in the sagas market to retain readers or for God knows what kind of editorial strategy, it has never stopped publishing those independent stories that are enjoyed with greater sufficiency and autonomy, that dazzle and that they do not require previous scenarios.
Novels that are everything in their only existence. And this story addresses a very special plot. Talk about love, nostalgia, romanticism, renouncing the loved one. Only, in one of Coben's most intense twists, we are soon faced from Jake Fisher's perspective on the strangest motives for the pact of oblivion that once lovers signed.
Natalie decided to take new paths with another man. And Jake assumed that story that they were too different. Until years later, some small details are composing a very different scenario. He could never forget Natalie, today more than ever because everything points to a betrayal at the height of Hamlet.
Other recommended books by Harlan Coben
The coincidence
Exposed to the raw world. With all the senses focused on discovering the big questions as necessary pillars when emerging from nothing. This is how one never forgets his deepest doubts, pouring his entire being into locating himself in the world. A search that can turn us into a new evolution capable of differentiating coincidences from signs of destiny...
He has always been Wilde, the boy they found in the mountains of New Jersey living alone and wild. More than thirty years have passed since that time and he has never known what his origins were. The time has come to find out something about his family, for which he uses the services of a DNA analysis company.
The results lead him to his biological father, but his encounter raises more questions than answers. That's not the only surprise. The DNA search ends up revealing another match, another family member, a media personality. However, as soon as she finds it, it suddenly disappears. Wilde is not going to stop now: he wants to find out the truth no matter how terrible it may be.
the boy of the forest
The perfect murder is the one committed on the right victim. Going unnoticed or simply being watched for ridicule and being ignored disposes the person in that alienation of eccentric and remote personalities. It is something like being born crashed and becoming targets of evil in any of its representations. Overall, hardly anyone misses someone who has never been there...
Almost no one seems to care about the absence of Naomi Pine, a teenager without friends and a victim of bullying. There is only one exception of her: her classmate Matthew hers, who feels guilty for her failure to defend her from her ruthless classmates.
After a week without word from Naomi, Matthew turns to his grandmother, celebrity TV lawyer Hester Crimstein, and his godfather, Wilde, to find out where the girl is. Wilde's past, living alone in the woods for years as a child, prevents him from fully integrating into a community, but he has skills that may be vital to finding the young woman before it's too late.
there is only one winner
One of those fast-paced works about white-collar thieves and their implausible tricks to achieve their goals. Except that in this type of plot everything can unleash for the worse, under the inertia of precipitated events towards guilt, betrayal and all that accumulation of sensations once the end of a new robbery of the century has been achieved.
Over twenty years ago a Vermeer and a Picasso were stolen from the Lockwood family. Shortly after, Patricia Lockwood was kidnapped and her father was murdered. She was able to escape after five months in captivity, but those responsible for the robbery and kidnapping never appeared. Time ended up burying these traumatic episodes until now.
At the top of a Manhattan building they have just found a body, the Vermeer painting and a suitcase that belonged to Windsor Horne Lockwood III, or Win, as his friends call him. Win, Patricia's cousin, has money, intelligence, coldness and a particular sense of justice. He faces a delicate situation in which his family's honor may be affected, but he is not one to forgive, nor one to wait for others to solve his problems.
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