Some books are barely worth reading once and then there are the very few that are worth reading a second time.
Long Lost by Harlan Corben is one of those in the latter category.
I had the good fortune to read this one a second time. I read it the first time some months ago and when a friend passed along some books to me to read, I found it in the stack and immediately had to begin reading it again.
Mr. Corben pens characters with flair and creativeness; characters who leave us wanting to be their friend or their enemy. We feel their anguish over a lost child; their desperation to solve the puzzle that is their life.
Long Lost is an intricately intertwined double plot tale of a terrorist scheme to infiltrate and destroy the US and a story about a child killed in a wreck and another born into the midst of that scheme and how she was found.
Both plots are all too believable and terrifying in their implications.
But that is the true test of a good mystery’s tale – is it far enough “out there” to be unique and is it reasonable enough to be something you could conceive of happening. Long Lost passes both tests with flying colors.
I invite you to read Long Lost for yourself and see if you don’t enjoy it – once or twice!
Long Lost by Harlan Corben
ISBN: 978-0-525-95105-6
Published by Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2009
