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Kharlan Koben — pervyy v spyske desyaty luchshykh detektyvnykh pysateley Ameryky po versyy «The New York Times», laureat premyy «Shamus», «Entony», «Edgar», «Serebryanaya pulya». Ego romany lyteraturnye krytyky nazyvayut genyalnymy, ostrymy y pronytsatelnymy, neyzmenno uvlekatelnymy, prevoskhodnymy y obyazatelnymy dlya chtenyya. «Ya ne naprasno prychyslyayu Kobena k velykym pysatelyam — vozmyte lyuboy yz ego romanov, y vy pogruzytes v ystoryyu stol zhe zaputannuyu, skol zakhvatyvayushchuyu y pry etom zhyvuyu». Tak otozvalas o nem Gyllyan Flynn, avtor mezhdunarodnogo bestsellera «Yscheznuvshaya». Uvolennyy yz polytsyy Samy Kyrs vynuzhden perebyvatsya somnytelnymy zarabotkamy. Sredy prochego on vedet zanyatyya po krymynalystyke dlya zhelayushchykh uznat pobolshe o tom, kak raskryvayutsya prestuplenyya. Na ocherednom zanyatyy vdrug poyavlyaetsya zhenshchyna, v kotoroy Samy uznaet svoyu davnyshnyuyu vozlyublennuyu. Dva s lyshnym desyatyletyya on schytal ee pogybshey. Bolee togo, u nego byly samye sereznye osnovanyya veryt, chto pogybla ona ot ego ruky. No u zhenshchyny drugoe ymya, drugaya famylyya, y ona utverzhdaet, chto prezhde nykogda ne vydela Samy. Odnako v yunosty ona stala zhertvoy pokhyshchenyya y odynnadtsat let schytalas propavshey bez vesty. Samy pytaetsya razgadat, chto zhe proyzoshlo v novogodnyuyu noch na rubezhe proshlogo y nyneshnego tysyacheletyy y zachem komu-to ponadobylos, chtoby on schytal sebya ubyytsey. 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!