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Violence
A lot
Violence tied to political extremism and the threat to a missing girl; some deaths
Language
Some
Moderate language
Sexual Content
Barely any
Brief adult content in backstory
Substance Use
None
No substance use
Emotional Intensity
A lot
A man without a past navigating a case that requires knowing people and their motivations, online harassment as a mechanism for real-world harm, the particular vulnerability of teenage girls in political environments
What this book is about
Wilde was found as a boy in the New Jersey woods — no name, no past, no origin ever discovered. He grew up in the foster system and learned to disappear. Now he lives on the edge of society, a survivalist and occasional private detective. When a teenager named Naomi Pine disappears and the case connects to her father's political campaign and a campaign of online harassment, Wilde is pulled back into the world he has spent his adult life avoiding. Harlan Coben's darkest standalone.
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violence including deaths
online harassment and extremism
missing person thriller
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