But what about the 16 year old? Is he identifiable beyond fingerprints or DNA? Here are powerful questions about what determines who we are. Question: Is a child, kidnapped at age 6 in any way predictable in a 16 year old body if he's discovered? Is that boy still the child of his parent's? Of course the parents will have no difficulty answering that question. With a clever plot device that teases your imagination. I hope Coben, an accomplished novelist, chooses to explore them. The mystery is tied up within the book, but an epilogue opens a door to new avenues for Myron and Win (and the younger set, Mickey, Ema, and Spoon). But ultimately it is an engrossing, occasionally thrilling ride. "Home" is not exactly a happy book-books dealing with kidnapping, the sex trade, and other nasty things can't be. I really liked Steven Weber's narration different from Marosz, who did the early books, but very easy to listen to. Coben's standalones often get so convoluted as to be unbelievable (and sometimes un-followable), but this story's secrets and twists all work.
It's a great mystery that hangs together right through the ending. Now Win is back "Home" and the series is back on track. But he's the perfect foil to brooding do-gooder (but also brutally accomplished and anything but effete) Myron Bolitar, and without him the stories don't work as well. Now, I don't know why an effete-looking but brutally accomplished assassin, a semisociopath who also has access to his family's billions, should be the most engrossing character in the book. Then Coben wrote out Windsor Horne Lockwood III. I enjoyed the first 6-7 books in this series, but the last few got too dark and depressing.
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