Hold Tight explores a number of difficult issues that confront lots of families, including the matter of how to balance parental oversight with giving your children the room to grow and become strong independent individuals, the question of how one attempts to balance a career with your family responsibilities, and the difficulties of managing as a single parent.

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I just wish the pages of my copy (original hardcover, 1988) weren’t yellowing so quickly; I may want to reread it someday and I’d rather not outlive my books. Rather, the magic left the book when a sadly predictable type of violence appeared and the story became something else.

His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries with seventy-five million books in print worldwide. He does bring them together at the end of the book, but you may want to have a small chart to keep track of everyone in the book. Gay Texan Sailor Hank Fayette, on shore leave, has been directed by some of his sailor friends to a certain movie theatre where he is approached and taken to a Docklands brothel where he, well, brothels. Adam is not around when his father comes to pick him up to attend the hockey game, and Mo tells Mike how to use the GPS on Adam's phone to track him.Within days of installing a sophisticated spy program on Adam’s computer, they are jolted by a cryptic message from an unknown correspondent that shakes them to their core “just stay quiet and all safe. in " The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly " Publishing This Week" newsletter. There was a lot to like about the story, and I did get a few aha moments when he revealed something I didn't expect. BookBrowse seeks out and recommends the best in contemporary fiction and nonfiction—books that not only engage and entertain but also deepen our understanding of ourselves and the world around us. While I do hope the events of this book aren't happening (or haven't happened) anywhere in the world, it isn't hard to imagine them happening because of the realism in all other elements of the book.

At times, I wasn't sure if his point was to show us the dangers of such technology or extol its virtues. The topic itself is fairly unique - a simple country hick from the southern states gets used as a pawn in the wider plan of the FBI and Naval Intelligence to locate and arrest suspected German spies seeking to use confidential information on the comings and goings of American ships in the Atlantic. He is faced with a possible dishonourable discharge but is recruited to participate in an espionage operation that is being run by the US Navy. This absurdity provides an invitation for the inclusion of a wily female investigator, Loren Muse, following these irrational crimes and her valiant struggles to obtain and maintain respect in her nepotist precinct which refuses to take her seriously based solely on her gender. Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for her son, Betsy Hill is struck by one photo in particular that appears to have been taken on the night of Spencer's death and that he wasn't alone.AND the plot continues to layer with the abductions and murders of two women connected to this same neighborhood. Of course at 415 pages, if Coben had put in more character development, I might have been reading for another week. The way Harlan Coben has written the scenes in the book is movie like, not just going from scene to scene or event to event; he describes scenes and events within a scene. He still lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children.