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The Match (2022)

di Harlan Coben

Serie: Wilde (2)

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After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he's ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man leads to more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare. Was his cousin's downfall a long time coming? Or was he the victim of a conspiracy as cunning as it is complex? And how does it all connect to the man once known as The Stranger, a dangerous fugitive with a growing following whose mission and methods have only turned more dangerous with time?… (altro)
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The author has a way of writing that keeps your interest from chapter to chapter. This story is about Wilde, a man who was found living in the forests of New Jersey around 6 yrs old. He has finally decided to try to find his parents. His search brings up a match to someone called PB. And the ?fun? begins. We have a reality star being defamed, adoptions that turn out not to be adoptions, a group of vigilantes who decide the person who needs to be ?dealt? with and Wilde caught in the middle. Quite an adventure. Goodreads: Wilde has grown up knowing nothing of his family, and even less about his own identity . All he knows is that, as a young child, he was found living a feral existence in the Ramapo mountains of New Jersey.He became known simply as Wilde, the boy from the woods.Now Wilde has had a hit on the DNA website he has been researching. A 100% match. His father. They meet up, and Wilde soon realises that his father doesn't even know he had a son and is as mystified as Wilde is by his existence.Undaunted, Wilde continues his research for his family on DNA websites where he becomes caught up in a community of online doxxers, a secret group committed to exposing anonymous trolls.Then one by one these doxxers start to die, and it soon becomes clear that a serial killer is targeting this secret community - and that his next victim might be Wilde himself ...
  bentstoker | Jan 26, 2024 |
(2022)Very good. Genealogy DNA and reality TV make a good combination as Wilde tries to find out who his parents were and why he was abandoned as young boy in the woods. PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY: Could Wilde, a 40-something man who was discovered living on his own three decades earlier in the New Jersey woods, finally learn how he came to grow up feral? Bestseller Coben provides some answers in this uneven sequel to 2020's The Boy from the Woods. After years of uncertainty, Wilde submits a DNA sample to a genealogy website, but after he receives a message about a possible second cousin, identified only as PB, Wilde gets distracted and never responds to PB's message. Sometime later, just as Wilde is preparing to return to the U.S. from Costa Rica, a new alert identifies his biological father as Nevada's Daniel Carter. But when Wilde tracks him down, Carter's unsure about more than a one-time meeting. Wilde reaches out to PB hoping to learn more, only to find this potential second blood relative unreachable. His search for PB enmeshes him in the messy world of internet trolls, vigilantes, and reality TV, and lands him as the prime suspect in a murder. Plenty of exciting action makes up only in part for a lack of character depth. Coben has done better. Agent: Lisa Vance, Aaron M. Priest Literary. (Mar.)
  derailer | Jan 25, 2024 |
2.5 stars. Sadly my least favourite Coben novel to-date. ( )
  filemanager | Nov 29, 2023 |
Harlan Coben’s ‘The Match’ continues the story of Wilde, the protagonist of ‘The Boy from the Woods’ who was abandoned in the wilderness of the Ramapo Mountains in New Jersey as a child. Branded ‘feral’ and a modern-day ‘Mowgli’ by the media , he had barely any memory of his life or family before his days in the woods. Almost thirty-five years after being rescued and placed in foster care and with military experience and a career in private security behind him, Wilde, now in his early forties, is searching for clues that would help him find out more about his past and his true parentage.

When Wilde enters his DNA into a genealogy database he is matched with two people- Daniel Carter, a construction business owner in his sixties based in Nevada and a younger man “PB” closer to home who reaches out to him. He attempts to contact both of them in hopes of finding answers to the questions about his true identity that have been consuming him for all his life. However, his meeting in Nevada leaves him with more questions than answers and when Wilde tries to find out more about Daniel Carter, he seems to have disappeared without a trace. “PB” turns out to be a reality television star who is himself embroiled in scandal and absconding, feared dead. Wilde finds himself embroiled in much more than he had bargained for as his investigation leads him to the pretentious world of reality television, a covert group of hackers engaged in cyber vigilantism and a series of murders that has Wilde being questioned by local law enforcement and the FBI. Will Wilde be able to find the killer before more people are murdered? What happened to “PB” and does his disappearance have anything to do with the murders? Who is Daniel Carter and why did he disappear? Will Wilde find his family and get some much-needed closure? With assistance from his foster sister Rola, his late best friend David’s mother and celebrity defense attorney Hester Crimstein, David’s widow Laila with whom he is in a relationship, Laila’s son Matthew and Matthew’s girlfriend Sutton, Wilde tries to connect the dots and figure out how it all adds up as the body count continues to multiply.

'The Match' is definitely an improvement over the first book in the series .To be honest, 'The Boy from the Woods’ ended somewhat abruptly and was a tad disappointing. I’m glad that the author finally gives us a resolution to the mystery of Wilde’s past in this novel. I hope the author develops this character further in future novels. A lot is going on in this story and with the characters but the author keeps it compact and interesting. This is a fast–paced, action-packed and gripping read that kept me turning pages till the very end. Though this is a sequel to 'The Boy from the Woods', this novel can very well be read and enjoyed as a standalone novel. ( )
  srms.reads | Sep 4, 2023 |
I enjoyed this, but in a kind of superficial way. I'm realizing it's getting harder for me to keep track of complicated plot lines and multiple characters. But it did keep me going.

Mom would have enjoyed this Coben in years past, when she could keep better track, or write her little bookmark notes. I wish I could talk about it with her. And so many other things. ( )
  huntersun9 | Aug 20, 2023 |
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After months away, Wilde has returned to the Ramapo Mountains in the wake of a failed bid at domesticity that confirms what he's known all along: He belongs on his own, free from the comforts and constraints of modern life. Suddenly, a DNA match on an online ancestry database brings Wilde closer to his past than he's ever dreamed, and finally gives Wilde the opening he needs to track down his father. But meeting the man leads to more questions than answers. So Wilde reaches out to his last, most desperate lead, a second cousin who disappears as quickly as he resurfaces, having experienced an epic fall from grace that can only be described as a waking nightmare. Was his cousin's downfall a long time coming? Or was he the victim of a conspiracy as cunning as it is complex? And how does it all connect to the man once known as The Stranger, a dangerous fugitive with a growing following whose mission and methods have only turned more dangerous with time?

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