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Kharlan Koben — pervyy v desyatke 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». Eshche sovsem nedavno u kapytana voenno-vozdushnykh syl Mayy Shtern bylo vse: delo zhyzny, lyubymyy muzh, malenkaya dochka y obozhaemaya starshaya sestra. No v kakoy-to moment ee zhyzn nachynaet rushytsya kak kartochnyy domyk: armeyskuyu sluzhbu prykhodytsya ostavyt yz-za odnoy-edynstvennoy rokovoy oshybky, stavshey prychynoy mezhdunarodnogo skandala, sestru zversky ubyvayut pry nevyyasnennykh obstoyatelstvakh, a vsego neskolko mesyatsev spustya gybnet y muzh, naslednyk bogatogo semeystva y baloven fortuny. Teper Mayya v odynochku pytaetsya rasputat klubok sobytyy, pryvedshykh k krakhu ee zhyzny. Odnako ee rassledovanye, kazhetsya, porozhdaet eshche bolshe zagadok. A mozhet, nykto ne vynovat y eto prosto sama smert sleduet za kapytanom Shtern po pyatam? Chtoby nayty otvet, Mayya dolzhna nakonets raskryt taynu 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.