Miracle Cure
Written by Harlan Coben
Narrated by Scott Brick
3.5/5
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About this audiobook
They’re one of the country’s most telegenic couples: beloved TV journalist Sara Lowell and New York’s hottest basketball star, Michael Silverman. Their family and social connections tie them to the highest echelons of the political, medical, and sports worlds—threads that will tangle them up in one of the most controversial and deadly issues of our time.
In a clinic on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, a doctor has dedicated his life to eradicating a divisive and devastating disease. One by one, his patients are getting well. One by one, they’re being targeted by a serial killer. And now Michael has been diagnosed with the disease. There’s only one cure, but many ways to die.…
“Coben adroitly applies the fundamental rules of thrillerdom (offer a raft of potential villains; keep the action moving at breakneck speed) in this highly entertaining novel…a page-turner!” —Publishers Weekly
Harlan Coben
With more than seventy million books in print worldwide, Harlan Coben is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of numerous suspense novels, including Don't Let Go, Home, and Fool Me Once, as well as the multi-award-winning Myron Bolitar series. His books are published in forty-three languages around the globe and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries. He lives in New Jersey.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Good story but it keeps cutting off. And that gets very annoying!
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not a bad book. It was better than I expected and had a few nice twists.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This was written quite a few years back, but it was still pretty interesting.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Somewhat apropos of 2020 if you substitute COVID for AIDS. Though the publication date of this book is 2011, it was actually written 20 years ago. What if there were a cure ? Drama ensues. it was a little over the top when our hero is kidnapped and ends up in a Thai whorehouse via a cargo airplane. Characters seem real enough and we get to know them. Fine book.
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5If this was the first ever book of Harlan Coben that I came to read I would never even touch any of his books again. Yes, It's one of his earliest books and one should have patience. But the thing is: I have loads of patience for Harlan Coben. Since reading "the Stranger" I have worked myself through almost all his standalone stories and I love them (guilty pleasure, of course) but this piece just screams for en editor. At least someone to point out the basic difference between aids and HIV.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Michael is a pro basketball player, whose life changes drastically when he collapses on the court. He's rushed to the hospital. Sara rushes to her husband. They are stunned to find out that he has hepatitis, and devastated to find out that he has been diagnosed as HIV positive.
Michael is moved to the HIV clinic to be treated. Three patients from the clinic have been brutally murdered, and one of the doctor's has died from an apparent suicide.
Doctors are vying for more funding, an overzealous evangelist is calling the AIDs virus a sign from God that end of times are near, and all is not what it seems. Family members can't be trusted. Friends aren't really friends. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Very nice! Drew me in like a cyclone, and placed me down gently at the end. I can always count on Harlan Coben to be a rollercoaster ride of a book, and this was no exception. Centering around two doctors with a possible cure for the AIDS virus, a famous reporter married to a star professional basketball player, a conservative senator and a crooked televisional evangelist, this has all the makings of a great story. A mystery that kept me guessing until the end.
Recommended. - Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Harlan Coben is one of my favourite authors. He released this book in 2011, after writing it 20 years prior, at a time when he could not get anyone to publish his work. It might not be the show stopping standard of say Tell No One, or Gone For Good, but you can see the tell tale signs of a talented writer behind this piece of work. I enjoyed reading this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5This was a powerful introduction to Coben's work: as a suspense novel, it moves quickly and believably, and keeps you guessing throughout the work even though, in the end, everything makes sense. True, Coben misleads readers along the way, but he doesn't trick them or leave out small bits of information that, realistically, should be included--in other words, it's written the way a good mystery should be. Character-wise, Coben's characters are believable and well-drawn. Subject-wise, Coben also tackles more aspects of the complexity of society's reactions to AIDS than most novels, and does so subtly.It is true that this is one of Coben's earlier works, republished, and there are a few spots where that shows through in awkward-ish dialogue and scenes moving a bit too quickly or slowly, but in general, this is a smart and well-developed suspense novel. And, early or not, it's enough to ensure that I'll be picking up quite a bit more work from Coben.Absolutely recommended.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5MIRACLE CURE by Harlan Coben is his second novel. It is prefaced with a warning that it’s not up to his present-day standards. But his first novel, PLAY DEAD, contained the same preface, and I enjoyed it, anyhow. So I thought this second would be at least as good as the first. Nope.MIRACLE CURE lacks that grab-me-from-the-start that is characteristic of Coben’s other books. But, because it was there in PLAY DEAD almost immediately, I thought it would be in MIRACLE CURE, too. So I was disappointed in spite of his warning. But MIRACLE CURE did end, as all Coben’s books do, with a surprise.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I love Harlan Coben novels, and I'm OCD enough that I have to have everything checked off on my lists. Accordingly, I tracked this novel from a library in a neighboring state, which is Coben's 2nd and now out of print. Published in 1991 it's a thriller that centers around the AIDS epidemic, but I would not consider it to be a medical thriller. AIDS back in the early '90's was a headline issue and it was very interesting to go back in time a bit with the fears and sterotypes associated with AIDS. Also intersesting was one of his main characters, Michael Silverman - where you could see hints of who was to become Myron Bolitar. Very entertaining and well-written. Now to hunt down Coben's first novel Play Dead - also out of print.