Gone For Good - Harlan Coben

Category: Adults, Mystery, Thriller, Violence
Language: English
Keywords: Fugitive Murder New Jersey

Written by Harlan Coben
Read by Jonathan Marosz
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Publisher: Books on Tape
Release date: March 27, 2002
Duration: 11:30:51

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 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.

“…True to form, Coben keeps the plot twists coming fast and furious, and readers will give up trying to guess the outcome quite early on; yet the book’s entertainment value lies less in its plot than its characters. From the New York streetwalker Raquel (”Many transvestites are beautiful. Raquel was not. He was black, six-six, and comfortably on the north side of three hundred pounds”) to Belmont, Neb.’s Sheriff Bertha Farrow (”Murder scenes were bad, but for overall vomit-inducing, bone-crunching, head-splitting, blood-splattering grossness, it was hard to beat the metal-against-flesh effect of an old-fashioned automobile accident”), this title delivers.”—PW

“Jonathan Marosz provides a straightforward no-frills narration for this suspenseful story, which pits Will Klein, a youth worker, against the FBI and the master criminals who were his fugitive older brother’s friends growing up. While Marosz’s narrative style is not exciting, it is serviceable and allows the listener to follow the intricate twists of the plot with ease. It also gives the listener some needed distance from the depictions of cruelty and evil that Will encounters as he tries to find out why every woman he ever loves ends up murdered.” D.T.H. (c) AudioFile