" Not a bad effort for a second published novel and I did find it intriguing that Coben's soapbox (that he admitted was too evident in this novel) still is relevant today--there is only so much research grant money to go around and the popular diseases of the day are the ones that get it. He makes a pretty good argument, both pro and con, for funding AIDS research, but of course the arguments in the mouth of the good guys are the ones we are supposed to believe. Actually, maybe his soapbox had to do with prejudice against homosexuals, but that was less interesting to me. What annoyed me the very most was how quickly Coben switched from character to character. I can see moving the narrative as a suspense-building trick, but it happens so often in this book that it felt disjointed. What, there were nine different perspectives? The doctor at the beginning who is murdered--but as that was the hook, I won't count that. The basketball star, his gorgeous wife, her sex-pot sister, their senator father, the research doctor, his divorced wife, the assassin, the bigoted religious preacher, the twitchy police detective, and a few other minor voices. Too many! which doesn't allow for enough character development on the main players and they become one-dimensional. "
— Dlora, 1/21/2014