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Absent Friends

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The secrets of a group of childhood friends unravel in this haunting thriller by Edgar Award winner S. J. Rozan. Set in New York in the unforgettable aftermath of September 11, Absent Friends brilliantly captures the mood of a singular time and place, winding through the wounded streets of New York and Staten Island and into a maze of old crimes, damaged lives, and heartbreaking revelations. The result is not only an electrifying mystery and a riveting piece of storytelling but an elegiac novel that powerfully explores a world changed forever on a clear September morning. Absent Friends is guaranteed to become a classic, a masterful tale about the bonds of friendship, the meaning of truth, and the stuff of heroism.

Critics Review

“The novel is elaborately structured, with multiple points of view and frequent flashbacks…Rozan’s story…coalesces into a harrowing elegy that lingers.”

Rocky Mountain News

“A dense, ambitious novel…an eloquent and profoundly sad story about the heroes who are flawed in a world that needs all the heroes it can get.”

Boston Globe

“A rich, sophisticated view of New Yorkers whose lives, like so many others, were so vastly changed on that September morning.”

South Florida Sun-Sentinel

“Absent Friends is a love song to a city stubbornly insisting on moving forward, and is without question one of the year’s standout novels.”

Baltimore Sun

“Rozan shifts among severaln narrators and between present and past in this riveting offering…An unforgettable elegy to the clear September morning that forever changed our lives.”

Booklist
Author S. J. Rozan
Narrator Barbara McCulloh
Duration 14 hours and 54 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781602831254
Format Audiobook
Publisher Blackstone Publishing
Genre Crime and mystery fiction, Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives, Espionage and spy thriller, Thriller / suspense fiction
Availability AU, GB, IE, US

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