In the novel, a Vermeer painting, stolen from Win’s family decades earlier, has been found at the homicide scene of a man Win had never met, along with a suitcase monogrammed with Win’s initials. 'Sometimes nice guys are boring to hang out with. And then: “I had an idea involving an art heist and a hermit in a fancy Upper West Side apartment, and I thought, ‘That’s Win’s world. “I usually come up with an idea and then ask myself who will tell the story.” Often the answer was Myron or a range of other characters. “People have been asking me about it for a long time, but I’ve been resisting it,” he says. Through it all, there was one thing he didn’t want to do: write a book about Win. He’s also won the Edgar Award, Shamus Award and Anthony Award. but it will claw its way back out.”Īnd claw it does, whether in Coben’s 18 standalone novels, his YA trilogy or the Myron Bolitar series, in which Win-short for Windsor Horne Lockwood III-has served as a mysterious, witty, violence-prone sidekick to the affable Myron, a sports agent with a sideline in off-the-books criminal investigation, since the 1990s.Ĭoben has fans worldwide: He’s got 75 million books in print in 45 languages, numerous Netflix series, a critically acclaimed French film adaptation of his 2001 book, Tell No One, and still more projects in the works (including a sequel to 2020’s The Boy From the Woods). You may try to bury it, you may throw a lot of dirt over it. The author says it best during a call to his New Jersey home: “The past is never quite buried. That sentence’s stark simplicity and resigned tone perfectly convey a universal truth at the heart of Coben’s body of work, which consists of 33 novels and counting. There’s a line in Harlan Coben’s new novel, Win, that’s sure to evoke a frisson of anticipatory delight in the hearts of thriller readers everywhere: “We always knew this day would come.” A perennial scene-stealer in Harlan Coben’s Myron Bolitar series finally stars in a book of his very own.

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