Long Lost By Harlan Coben

SUMMARY not written by me. 



A WOMEN NAMED TERESE COLLINS, CALLS A MAN BY THE NAME OF MYRON BOLITAR. SHE TELLS HIM TO LEAVE NEW JERSEY AND TO COME TO PARIS. MYRON GIVES UP ON A LOCAL GAL WHO WAS GOING TO BREAK IT OFF WITH HIM ANYWAYS, AND ACCEPTS TERESE'S INVITATION. AFTER ARRIVING, MYRON LEARNS THAT TERESE CAME TO PARIS BECAUSE OF HER EX-HUSBAND, RICK COLLINS, WHO WAS DESPERATE TO SEE HER BUT WOULD NOT SAY WHY ON THE PHONE. ON HER ARRIVAL IN PARIS, RICK COULD NOT BE LOCATED. SO TERESE CALLS ON HER OLD BOYFRIEND, MYRON, WHOM SHE KNOWS IS VERY GOOD AT FINDING PEOPLE. COPS IN PARIS SHOW UP TO INVESTIGATE THEM AND MYRON LEARNS RICK HAS BEEN MURDERED. THE COPS SUSPECT TERESE. BLOOD AT THE MURDER SCENE PROVES TO BE THAT OF RICK AND THEY FIND DNA THAT REVEALS BLOOD WAS THERE THAT WAS SIMILAR ENOUGH TO RICK'S TO BE THAT OF A YOUNG GIRL, AS IF A DAUGHTER. THE COPS RESUME LOOKING FOR BOTH, AND TERESE THINKS OF HOW SHE LOST THE ONLY CHILD THEY HAD TOGETHER, IN A CAR CRASH YEARS EARLIER. MYRON AND TERESE ARE THEN RELEASED UPON GIVING UP THEIR PASSPORTS. MYRON GOES FOR A WALK ALONE AFTER, AND FIND TWO MEN TRYING TO KIDNAP HIM. MYRON RESISTS AND TAKES THE GUN FROM ONE, SHOOTING HIM, WHILE LETTING THE OTHER ESCAPE. POLICE COME TO ARREST MYRON. HE LEARNS THAT THE ONE HE SHOT IS IN THE HOSPITAL, AND THE ONE THAT ESCAPED LEFT IN A VAN WITH A TEEN WHO HAS LONG BLONDE HAIR. THIS TEEN WAS THOUGHT TO BE TERESE'S AND RICKS SUPPOSEDLY DECEASED DAUGHTER. NOW TERESE IS GONE. MYRON'S WEALTHY PAL, WIN LOCKWOOD, FLIES HIS JET TO PARIS SO HE CAN HELP MYRON. LOCKWOOD DOES HIS OWN INVESTIGATION AND LOCATES TERESE ON HIS OWN. SHE BOARDS THE JET AND SOON MYRON ARRIVES. WIN TELLS MYRON THAT HE FOUND OUT MYRON'S VICTIM DIED IN THE HOSPITAL, AND THE COPS WANT MYRON FOR MURDER. NOW TERESE LEARNS THAT HER DAUGHTER MIGHT HAVE SURVIVED THE CRASH THAT HAPPENED 10 YEARS EARLIER. MYRON THEN HAS A RETIRED COP WHO INVESTIGATED THE CAR CRASH, HELP THEM. TERESE THEN WANTS TO GO TO HER DAUGHTERS GRAVE AND DIG UP THE BODY. NEXT THEY TALK TO RICK'S WIDOW, AND LEARN NOTHING. BUT THIS IS NOTICED AND MYRON SEES HE'S BEING FOLLOWED. SO IT'S LEARNED THAT SOMEONE MYRON AND TERESE EARLIER QUESTIONED, WAS LATER FOUND MURDERED. THEN WITH A CONFRONTATION AND ALTERCATION WITH THE KIDNAPPERS, RICK'S WIDOW WAS KILLED. THEY ALSO SHOT MYRON AND TERESE, BUT DID NOT KILL THEM. MYRON AND TERESE ACTUALLY KILLED THE KIDNAPPERS. IT WAS REPORTED IN THE NEWSPAPER THAT RICK, AN INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER, WAS INFILTRATING A TERRORIST GROUP WHEN HE WAS KILLED. ALSO, THE PAPER SAYS SPECIAL FORCES KILLED THE TERRORIST GROUP, SO NOW THE MEMBERS OF THE GROUP WOULD NOT BE SEEKING MYRON OR WIN. MYRON WAS THEN TAKEN BY THEM ANYWAYS, AND REMAINED UNCONSCIOUS FOR TWO WEEKS. TERESE SURVIVED THE GUNSHOT WOUND ONLY TO LEARN THAT HER DAUGHTER WAS INDEED KILLED IN THE CAR CRASH YEARS AGO. WHEN RICK AND TERESE WERE TRYING TO GET PREGNANT, THEY TRIED FREEZING THE EMBRYO UNTIL AN ADVANCE IN SCIENCE COULD HELP. THEY DID NOT KNOW THOUGH THAT INSTEAD OF BEING STORED, IT WAS PLACED IN A SURROGATE MOTHER. THIS EMBRYO IS NOW A 17 YEAR OLD NAMED CARRIE. THE SEARCH IS NOW ON FOR CARRIE AND THEY THINK THE TERRORIST GROUP HAS HER. THEY FIND CARRIE AT A HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS, BUT GOING THERE IS MET WITH GUNFIRE. MYRON KILLS THE MEN FROM THE GROUP. IT TURNS OUT THE HOME FOR UNWED MOTHERS WAS USING FROZEN EMBRYOS, NOT FOR LATER ADOPTIVE PURPOSES, BUT TO RAISE A NEW GROUP OF TERRORISTS. TERESE HAD FOUND CARRIE AND TOOK HER TO A REMOTE VILLAGE THAT TERESE HAD SPENT TIME AT WHILE IN AFRICA. SHE KNEW MYRON WOULD KNOW WHERE SHE WENT. MYRON JOINS THEM IN AFRICA, AND THE BOOK ENDS THERE.        

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