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Along the way we also slip into the heads of the sperm clinic doctor and his office manager, Miles’ brother, Miles’ brother’s wife, and a few other people who appear in brief, punchily-written chapters. Of course, some of the issues raised will be too advanced for a baby to grasp, but the point is to start thinking about them from a young age and to challenge any unconscious biases. The Book Review Station may earn a small commission, at no additional cost to you, if you use these links to purchase books.
His books include the adult thrillers Broken Promise , A Noise Downstairs , Elevator Pitch and the middle-grade novels Escape and Chase . In Find You First, Barclay has given us an exciting puzzle to solve, and tremendously interesting characters to solve it with. I go through periods, I feel restless, like my skin’s crawling, I have to do something, I can’t relax. Ebooks fulfilled through Glose cannot be printed, downloaded as PDF, or read in other digital readers (like Kindle or Nook).
Now in his 50s, he has received the devasting news that he has the beginning of the disabling and fatal Huntingtons disease.
Dark characters, devilish deeds, and a near death by stiletto made this one a super fun and clever read! What’s more, the anonymous children that he sired as a result of his sperm contributions to a local fertility clinic when he was a young, struggling and impoverished start-up entrepreneur stand a 50% chance of inheriting the gene that will give them the same disease. Every Linwood Barclay book is a masterclass in characterisation, plot and the killer twist, and with sales of over 7 million copies globally, his books have been sold in more than 39 countries around the world and he can count Stephen King, Shari Lapena and Peter James among his many fans. The premise of the novel—man seeks to find his long-long children and deliver news—may not be entirely unique, but Linwood Barclay found a way to add layers of excitement and intrigue from the opening pages.
It seems as though some people don’t want Miles to connect to his children, and are doing anything necessary to eliminate the rest of them. When Miles and Chloe eventually connect, their excitement at finding each other is overshadowed by a series of mysterious and terrifying events. When a man of considerable wealth learns he has a serious medical condition, his first thought is to warn those with his genetic make up of the possibility that they might have inherited it.