{"id":2710,"date":"2026-01-03T22:45:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/play-dead-coben-harlan\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T22:45:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T22:45:10","slug":"play-dead-coben-harlan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epub-book.com\/download\/play-dead-coben-harlan\/","title":{"rendered":"Play Dead – Coben, Harlan"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A Note from the Author<\/i><\/b><\/div>\n
Okay, if this is the first book of mine you\u2019re going to try, stop now. Return it. Grab another. It\u2019s okay. I\u2019ll wait.<\/div>\n
If you\u2019re still here, please know that I haven\u2019t read Play Dead<\/i> in at least twenty years. I didn\u2019t want to rewrite it and pass it off as a new book. I hate when authors do that. So this is, for better or worse, the exact book I wrote when I was in my early twenties, just a naive lad working in the travel industry and wondering if I should follow my father and brother and go to (shudder<\/i>) law school.<\/div>\n
I\u2019m hard on it, but aren\u2019t we all hard on our early stuff? Remember that essay you wrote when you were in school, the one that got you an A-plus on, the one your teacher called \u201cinspired\u201d\u2014and one day you\u2019re going through your drawer and you find it and you read it and your heart sinks and you say, \u201cMan, what was I thinking?\u201d<\/div>\n
That\u2019s how it is with early novels sometimes.<\/div>\n
Over the years, I\u2019ve borrowed a bit from this book\u2014names, places, even a character or two. Close readers may recognize that and will hopefully smile.<\/div>\n
Finally, flawed and all, I love this book. There are an energy and risk taking in Play Dead<\/i> that I wonder if I still have. Youth, as they say, is wasted on the young. I\u2019m not this guy anymore, but that\u2019s okay. None of us is stagnant with our passion and our work. That\u2019s a good thing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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