So you feel like you're in the dark with no idea where you're headed - and with the twists and turns in this novel, that just intensifies the feeling of being completely lost.

Parents will find this compulsive page-turner from Edgar-winner Coben (The Woods) particularly unnerving.I figured that since I've got a reading list pretty stacked with horror, fantasy and scifi, I might want to shake things up a bit, add a little variety, and take a look at Harlan Coben. In this day and age of NetFlix ORIGINAL series I could see the story made into such with the characters, Hank, Juke and Erich, as the leading stars. He comes and goes without accounting for his actions, and Mike and Tia fear that he is slipping away from them.

The operation is to work out of a gay brothel in the hope of ferreting out some Nazi spies working out of New York. This was my January book Pal read, and yet another great Harlan Coben book, full of great characters, twists and turns, with the whole story and different characters weaving in and out of the plots very intertestingly and all coming together for an exciting and frightening few chapters.His essays and columns have appeared in many top publications including the New York Times, Parade Magazine and Bloomberg Views.