Amazon.com: I Will Find You: 9781538748367: Coben, Harlan: Books

I Will Find You is about chasing secrets and lies. Five years ago, a cops son was sent to prison for the murder of his three year old son. For five years no one visited David in prison until Rachel found a photo of Matthew, believing him to be alive.Harlan Coben gives readers plenty to ponder regarding David’s guilt or innocence. It’s so cryptic. Puzzle pieces of memories are spread throughout the story. There’s a lot of moving parts.…Harlan Coben writes an unpredictable and unexpected set of events about David Burroughs a man who was convicted of murdering his three year old son in his home. Now David is spending his life sentence in Briggs Penitentiary. After serving five years David has escape prison in search of finding his son.…Harlan Coben is an American author of mystery and thriller novels. I Will Find You is a mixture of mystery and thriller. This book follows David Burroughs a man who believes his son is still alive. He escapes from prison while FBI agents follow his every move.…The manhunt was launched by FBI agents Max and Sarah. It was unprofessional approach to questioning people, yet it added humor in an otherwise serious situation. It was definitely unique and original taking this approach. Harlan Coben definitely separates himself as a writer from the typical procedures written about investigations.…I’ve watched a few Harlan Coben thrillers on Netflix and decided to delve into reading a book that hadn’t been made into a movie. This thriller is over-the-topic unrealistic with its hair brain scheme prison break and the far fetched silly banter between FBI agents was too much. The results for closure were wonderful and everything you’d expect from a twisty thriller.…Steven Weber voiced all the characters in I Will Find You. He was a very enthusiastic performing going above and beyond the call for duty. I find when there are multiple characters and female characters that one voice is not enough. I’ve yet to find a male narrator who can perform the voice of any female character with the same tone as a female narrator.I purchased both the audiobook and ebook. I’m an eyes and ears person requiring both to enhance my experience. I benefit by having someone else do the work of reading for me.

It is often said that truth is stranger than fiction. That’s because truth is truth. If two or four or eight highly unlikely things happen, one has to believe. In fiction, the boundaries are much tighter if an odd event is part of the plot (as it usually is). That’s because too many very unusual events which are necessary links in solving a murder read like artifice. Coben cruises along the edge of artifice in this novel of suspense.The writing is very good, sometimes inspiring. David Burroughs is a well-crafted character. Rachel is well done, too. I thought Pixie and Hayden, the joint antagonists, were C-list heavies. The book moved along well, a genuine page-turner, despite a hard to believe plot. When a good writer like Harlan Coben gets to 30 books, it’s got to be a little hard to find a clever plot that hasn’t been done, perhaps by the writer himself.So about the stranger than fiction issue: for the plot to succeed, we need the boy Matthew/Theo to have a red hemangioma (rare, but not incredibly so), which becomes the inciting incident of the story. Then David must recognize a person with a white forelock to make the next link in the chain work. There’s never a description of how mutilated the real victim is, but it’s enough that the body is unrecognizable. Yet, no DNA test. Coben tries to pass that off through David’s thoughts (“Perhaps, I surmise, the brutality had been to cover up the victim’s—yes, good, think of him as a victim, not Matthew—identity. The victim was male, of course. He was Matthew’s size and general shape and skin tone. But they hadn’t run a DNA test or anything like that. Why would they?”) Well, David, if they couldn’t positively identify the victim, they’d run DNA, at least if the story played out in the last decade, which it did (post-Covid). One or two stranger than fiction events are okay. Three is too much … BUT the writing’s good, and the pages practically turn themselves.