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Kharlan Koben - pervyĭ v desi͡atke 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". Eshche sovsem nedavno u kapitana voenno-vozdushnykh sil Maĭi Shtern bylo vse: delo zhizni, li͡ubimyĭ muzh, malenʹkai͡a dochka i obozhaemai͡a starshai͡a sestra. No v kakoĭ-to moment ee zhiznʹ nachinaet rushitʹsi͡a kak kartochnyĭ domik: armeĭskui͡u sluzhbu prikhoditsi͡a ostavitʹ iz-za odnoĭ-edinstvennoĭ rokovoĭ oshibki, stavsheĭ prichinoĭ mezhdunarodnogo skandala, sestru zverski ubivai͡ut pri nevyi͡asnennykh obstoi͡atelʹstvakh, a vsego neskolʹko mesi͡at͡sev spusti͡a gibnet i muzh, naslednik bogatogo semeĭstva i balovenʹ fortuny. Teperʹ Maĭi͡a v odinochku pytaetsi͡a rasputatʹ klubok sobytiĭ, privedshikh k krakhu ee zhizni. Odnako ee rassledovanie, kazhetsi͡a, porozhdaet eshche bolʹshe zagadok. A mozhet, nikto ne vinovat i ėto prosto sama smertʹ sleduet za kapitanom Shtern po pi͡atam? Chtoby naĭti otvet, Maĭi͡a dolzhna nakonet͡s raskrytʹ taĭnu svoego proshlogo. . .

Harlan Coben is the first in the top 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 that is 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. Until recently, Air Force Captain Maya Stern had everything: a life's work, a beloved husband, a little daughter, and an adored older sister. But at some point, her life begins to crumble like a house of cards: she has to leave the army service because of a single fatal mistake that caused an international scandal, her sister is brutally murdered under unclear circumstances, and just a few months later, her husband, the heir to a rich family and the darling of fortune, dies. Now Maya is single-handedly trying to unravel the tangle of events that led to the collapse of her life. However, her investigation seems to generate even more mysteries. Or maybe it's not anyone's fault, and it's just death itself following Captain Stern around? To find the answer, Maya must finally uncover the secret of her past.