Gone for Good

Gone for Good (2002) by Harlan Coben. Will Klein is searching for his brother, Ken. Eleven years ago, Ken was implicated in a murder, and then disappeared. His family has chosen to believe him dead, but recent evidence has surfaced proving that he is still alive and in hiding. Will, playing amateur sleuth, is caught up in machinations which he has no chance of understanding -- until the end of the book, when everything becomes more-or-less clear. Whether the reader will buy the explanation, or even care, is another question altogether. There are so many switches and double-switchbacks in the plot that I felt entirely lost by the time I got to the end. Although it was a pretty good read, it was not a very rewarding one. Grade: C+