Long Lost

Myron Bolitar, Book 9

By: Harlan Coben

Narrated by: Steven Weber

Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins

Publisher's summary

Myron hasn't heard from Terese Collins in years. Not since their affair ended with no explanation. There had been no contact since, so her call catches him off guard. She's in Paris, she says, in trouble, and only Myron can help. She tells him a sad story she's never before revealed: a good marriage, her struggles to get pregnant, the happiest moment of her life when her only child was born, the day everything she'd ever loved was taken from her. In the years since, Terese has had no contact with her ex-husband, until the phone call that brought her to Paris.

When she gets there he's been murdered, and she's a suspect. But then comes a startling piece of evidence that turns the entire case upside down, laying bare Terese's long-buried family secrets in a most shocking way and leaving Myron nowhere to turn for help. Caught in a foreign landscape where nothing is as it seems, he must tear apart the city - and eventually the globe - fighting for answers to unfathomable questions that will take Myron, and millions of Harlan Coben readers, where they have never gone before.

©2009 Harlan Coben (P)2009 Brilliance Audio, Inc.

Critic reviews

"[A] compulsive page-turner... The 'this could be me' factor lends poignancy to the thrills and chills." ( Publishers Weekly starred review)
"[Coben's] genius is to make the seemingly mundane terrifying." ( Booklist starred review)

The reading for the character Esperanza is so bad.

Really, it's a terrible reading for the character, Esperanza. The guy should shell out a couple bucks and get an actual woman to do it. It's not a little bad but comically bad. it ruins the character. Also, this, so far, is my least favorite of the Myron Bolitar series.

Myron is the man

Not his best, but if you have listen to the Myron Bolitar series don't miss it. If you haven't listen to the series get the first one "Deal breaker" Great Series

Tortured narration

spoiler alert, at one point in the book there's a segment where the main character is being tortured. The narration for this is so ridiculous that it pretty much killed the whole thing for me. I seriously struggled to get through that part wishing that they would just shut up and read the whole time. I love the story, I love this author, it was just so completely different than the rest of the book that it took me out of it and irritated me to the point where I stopped and waited for a different day to continue.

Hate new narrator voice for Esperanza

This new narrator makes Esperanza sound like a nasally whiner instead of the Spanish sexy woman she used to sound like. And Win doesn't have the arrogant sophisticated, but a lovable bucket of laughs, that his attitude used to portray.
Definitely not impressed with the performance of the book like I used to be.

Where is Marosz?

After listening to Marosz narrate from the outset of the Bolitar series, I found Weber was simply not in Marosz’s league. Weber’s Esperanza was without a hint of a Latina accent, his Myron less engaging and his Win was simply much less entertaining,

LOVED IT!

Just loved it! Myron Bolitar is one of my very favorite characters and Harlan Coben has never let me down! A riveting storyline that I could not leave. Hope there is more to come...and soon!

Long Lost

I like Harlan Coben books because they are so exciting. In other word, they are not dull. They make you not want to put them down until the end. This is also a good book.

Outstanding Narrator

Great plot on this one. Makes the reader think about the real evil in our world today. I can't say enough about the narrator Steven Weber!! Makes every character come alive and had my heart pounding many times!! Listen for yourself!! 👍

Great book

I enjoyed the book, as I do all the ones in this series but I wish the ending was different, I understand why it had to be that way, but still wish it was different. The narrator was very good, even his french accent was believable, but his voice for Esperanza…ouch. And his mother’s voice was so very grating.

Spoiler Alert Below

The first two thirds of the book had a solid foundation and kept me engaged. I thought it was going to be another 4 star book. However, the last third of the book (after Myron was shot) took some convoluted turns that muddied the story and made the rest of the book confusing and disappointing. The story became overly complicated and the involvement of terrorists seemed forced. I understand the issues with black sites and torture but using it in this story just didn’t work. There was too much melodrama especially with Agent Jones in Central Park with the return of Terese. I felt the ending was weak and unsatisfying.

I thought the story had a lot of holes and gaps such as:
• How did WIN get out of the Collins' house without government agents catching him?
• How did Myron get back to the USA and admitted into a hospital?
• How did the blonde (Carrie) get out of the Collins' house and how did WIN or the agents not see her?
• How did Terese get to NYC after being shot and why could no one find Terese when she was in a NYC hospital?

Having just finished Coben's Home, I was disappointed in the character of Esperanza in this book. She was annoying and her dialogue in the hospital and afterwards was bizarre. The interactions between the main characters after Myron was in the hospital also seemed odd to me. I think it could have been written so much better.

Weber is a good narrator and does a fine job here, however Esperanza's voice was different than in Home. I did not like this Esperanza voice at all.