You can feel it in your lizard brain, a primitive, inner, warning trill that you cannot quite explain. He is currently filming THE STRANGER, based on his novel, for Netflix starring Richard Armitage, Siobhan Finneran, Jennifer Saunders and Stephen Rea.

After waiting for what feels like forever book eleven in the Myron Bolitar series is finally here and despite the agonizing wait, it was well worth it. After a year in hiding, Win contacts Myron to say he has located Patrick Moore, now 16, one of two boys kidnapped ten years ago from the home of Brooke Baldwin, Win's cousin.Ten years after two school boys go missing from their suburban home in the United States, one is sighted in London. Long- time fans and new readers will appreciate the emotional bonds of friendship “bromance” of these two, in this intense and complex mystery suspense. Myron and Win continue their efforts to bring Rhys home and discover some surprising information along the way. Myron and Win and a motley crew of friends and family sift through the evidence from 10 years ago and try to figure out what was missed, what connections were overlooked, or what information was deemed too minor to pursue.

To look at him you'd never know Win's a sociopath - ready and willing to use all manner of weapons, martial arts, explosives, and other means of destruction when he deems it necessary.Anyway, as others have mentioned, this book starts in London, and some of the British references are a bit cliched and not quite as accurate as they could be. One of the boys, Rhys, the son of Chick and Brooke Baldwin, is a relative of Windsor “Win” Horne Lockwood, III, who happens to be Myron Bolitar’s best friend.

Two six year old boys had been kidnapped ten years prior – best friends, Patrick and Rhys had been on a play date when everything went wrong. All of the main characters from the series are in the book as well as the characters from the Mickey Bolitar series. The movie was the top box office foreign-language film of the year in USA, won the Lumiere (French Golden Globe) for best picture and was nominated for nine Cesars (French Oscar) and won four, including best actor, best director and best music. Not just the place, but the sense of being “in the zone” or safe or at ease or being where you belong. I was concerned that the intensity of this book wouldn’t hold till the end - hoping that I wouldn’t be let down in the end.The plot had a few exaggerated, unlikely scenarios, not that I paid too close attention while I was under the spell of Myron and his best friend, Win. When I say the gang is back, I do mean the entire game; Myron, Win, Esperanza, Big Cyndi and even Mickey and crew. There were only a few instances where I didn’t quite connect to the main character Myron’s personal life story that appears in a few sections of the novel.