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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. AstridG | Apr 26, 2009 |   Gripping and suspenseful. (  )KarriesKorner | Feb 18, 2009 | It's like a study in "when bad things happen to good people-- but as in all of Coben's books that I have read, things are never what they seem on the surface. The plot unfolded and unfolded again, and again. And though there are bad guys in the story, Matt is not one of them, despite his past. I was rooting for him and for Olivia. ( )bookczuk | Dec 23, 2008 | Another great Harlan Coben book. He continues to not disappoint. The characters have depth and I feel myself creating relationships with them, which was difficult in this book with so many players. The story had a great plot with lots of twists and turns which you rarely saw coming. I love the suspense! ( )she_climber | Dec 2, 2008 | *** PStreet | Oct 1, 2008 | 0.032 seconds to build listing  no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com (ISBN 045121577X, Paperback)Matt Hunter made a mistake when he was 20 years old and paid for it with a four-year stint in prison that left him with a determination never to be locked up again. Finally, his life is back on the promising track he was taking before he accidentally killed a man: He has a good job, a newly pregnant wife he adores, and is about to close on the home of their dreams. Then he gets a couple of bizarre photos on his cell phone that seem to show his wife in a compromising position with a black-haired stranger. But before he can sort out who sent the anonymous pictures and why, he's running from the law--especially from the cop who was his best friend in grade school, and a sharp young detective who's stepped right into the middle of an FBI investigation spurred by the discovery that a dead nun who wasn't who she claimed to be is somehow mixed up in Matt and Olivia Hunter's life. Coben deftly wields a complicated plot involving a missing stripper, a dead gangster, an incriminating videotape, and a couple of agents who aren't quite who they seem to be, while Hunter manages to hold onto his faith in Olivia despite her clouded past and uncertain future. Like all Coben's protagonists, (including the hero of his popular series starring sports agent turned detective Myron Bolitar) Hunter is a nice, middle-class New Jersey boy who's still the innocent of the title, despite the miscarriage of justice that sent him to prison. Or was it? That's the moral question at the heart of this tightly constructed thriller, which will no doubt shoot directly to the top of the bestseller list, and deservedly so. --Jane Adams
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Beloved series character Myron Bolitar appears in a new short story included with Harlan Coben's latest thriller, The Innocent. In this 
The author weaves a suspenseful story with enough twists and turns to keep you guessing. At times this one was a little far fetched, like how a man can run and fight after being attacked with a stun gun.
The plot mainly concerns Matt, an unlikely ex-con who gets drawn into the seedy life of strippers. We follow him from NJ to Reno and back as his wife's past puts him in greater and greater danger. (