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Kharlan Koben - pervyĭ v spiske desi͡ati luchshikh detektivnykh pisateleĭ Ameriki po versii "The New York Times", laureat premiĭ "Shamus", "Ėntoni", "Ėdgar", "Serebri͡anai͡a puli͡a". Ego romany literaturnye kritiki nazyvai͡ut genialʹnymi, ostrymi i pronit͡satelʹnymi, neizmenno uvlekatelʹnymi, prevoskhodnymi i obi͡azatelʹnymi dli͡a chtenii͡a. "I͡A ne naprasno prichisli͡ai͡u Kobena k velikim pisateli͡am - vozʹmite li͡uboĭ iz ego romanov, i vy pogruzitesʹ v istorii͡u stolʹ zhe zaputannui͡u, skolʹ zakhvatyvai͡ushchui͡u i pri ėtom zhivui͡u". Tak otozvalasʹ o nem Gillian Flinn, avtor mezhdunarodnogo bestsellera "Ischeznuvshai͡a". Uvolennyĭ iz polit͡sii Sami Kirs vynuzhden perebivatʹsi͡a somnitelʹnymi zarabotkami. Sredi prochego on vedet zani͡atii͡a po kriminalistike dli͡a zhelai͡ushchikh uznatʹ pobolʹshe o tom, kak raskryvai͡utsi͡a prestuplenii͡a. Na ocherednom zani͡atii vdrug poi͡avli͡aetsi͡a zhenshchina, v kotoroĭ Sami uznaet svoi͡u davnishni͡ui͡u vozli͡ublennui͡u. Dva s lishnim desi͡atiletii͡a on schital ee pogibsheĭ. Bolee togo, u nego byli samye serʹeznye osnovanii͡a veritʹ, chto pogibla ona ot ego ruki. No u zhenshchiny drugoe imi͡a, drugai͡a familii͡a, i ona utverzhdaet, chto prezhde nikogda ne videla Sami. Odnako v i͡unosti ona stala zhertvoĭ pokhishchenii͡a i odinnadt͡satʹ let schitalasʹ propavsheĭ bez vesti. Sami pytaetsi͡a razgadatʹ, chto zhe proizoshlo v novogodni͡ui͡u nochʹ na rubezhe proshlogo i nyneshnego tysi͡acheletiĭ i zachem komu-to ponadobilosʹ, chtoby on schital sebi͡a ubiĭt͡seĭ. Vpervye na russkom!

Harlan Coben is the first in the list of the ten best detective writers in America according to The New York Times, winner of the Shamus, Anthony, Edgar, and Silver Bullet awards. Literary critics call his novels brilliant, sharp and insightful, consistently fascinating, excellent and must-read. "It's not for nothing that I consider Coben to be one of the great writers — take any of his novels and you will plunge into a story as confusing as it is exciting and at the same time lively." That's how Gillian Flynn, author of the international bestseller Disappeared, described him. Sami Kirs, who was dismissed from the police, is forced to survive on dubious earnings. Among other things, he teaches criminology classes for those who want to learn more about how crimes are solved. At the next lesson, a woman suddenly appears, whom Sami recognizes as her long-time lover. For more than two decades, he thought she was dead. Moreover, he had the most serious reasons to believe that she had died by his hand. But the woman has a different first name, a different last name, and she claims that she has never seen Sami before. However, in her youth, she became a victim of abduction and was considered missing for eleven years. Sami is trying to figure out what happened on New Year's Eve at the turn of the last and present millennia and why someone would want him to consider himself a murderer. For the first time in Russian!