Coben Harlan is a famous American writer. He wrote exciting detective thrillers. In Coben's novels, there are murders, abductions and missing people, as well as other mysterious crimes.
Biography and personal life
Harlan Coben was born on January 4, 1962 in Newark, New Jersey. The writer has Jewish roots. He was educated in college. Harlan worked in the tourism industry for a company owned by his grandfather. The writer has a wife and children.
Coben has several literary awards: Edgar, Anthony and Shamus. Harlan is ranked among the best American detective storytellers by the famed New York Times.
Literary creativity
The prose writer owns the works "Breaker of the deal", "Shortened blow", "Out of the game" in 1996, "Twist" in 1997, "One wrong step" in 1998, "The main suspect" in 1999. In 2006, his book "Promise Me" was published. Five years later, the American writer created the novel "Chained by One."
Also, fans of the detective genre may be familiar with such works of Coben as "Don't tell anyone", "Lost", "There will be no second chance", "Just one look", "Innocent", "Thicket" and "Death grip". Over the past decade, Harlan has written novels for 2010's Trap, 2012's The Past Can't Let Go, 2013's Six Years, 2015's The Stranger, and 2016's Once I Lied.
Contribution to cinema
Coben has worked on scripts for several films. In 2006, the French film "Don't tell anyone" based on his novel was released. The main roles were played by François Cluse, Marie-José Croz, André Dussolier and Christine Scott Thomas. The director of the crime detective is Guillaume Canet. The detective has a high rating among viewers and film critics. He received the Cesar awards in several nominations. Then the work of the American prose writer was used for the mini-series by François Vel "Without the right to a second chance." The main characters were played by Alexandra Lamy, Pascal Elbe, Lionel Abelanski and Hippolyte Girardot. The series has been shown in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Japan, Spain, Italy and Russia.
Coben worked on the script for the 2016 UK miniseries Five. It has been shown in many European countries as well as Japan. A year later, the project "Only One Look" began. Harlan is one of the writers for this series. The adventure crime thriller still consists of one season, but filming continues. Virginie Ledoyen, Thierry Nevik, Thierry Fremont and Jimmy Jean-Louis got the leading roles. In 2018, the story created by the writer was used for a UK production "Safety". The first season was popular in many European countries. Coben also worked on the plot of the 2020 series "Stranger". The leading roles in this British detective thriller went to Richard Armitage, Sean Dooley, Sheevan Finneran and Jake Dudman.
