HARLEN COBEN DARKEST FEAR IN CAPE TOWN

Life isn't going well for Myron Bolitar. His business is struggling; and hisfather; recently recovered from a heart attack; is facing his own mortality - and forcing Myron to face it too. Then comes another surprise. Emily Downing; Myron's college sweetheart; reappears in his life withdevastating news: her thirteen-year-old son Jeremy is gravely ill and canbe saved only by a bone-marrow transplant - from a donor who hasvanished without trace. Before Myron can absorb this revelation; Emily hits him with an evenbigger shocker: Jeremy is Myron's son; conceived the night before Emily'swedding to another man. Staggered by the news; Myron plunges into asearch for the missing donor. But for Myron; finding the only person whocan save the boy's life means cracking open a mystery as dark as it is heartbreaking - a mystery that involves a broken family; a brutal kidnapping spree; and a cat-and-mouse game between an ambitious reporter and the FBI.