Plot Twist by Harlan Coben 

Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft by Harlan Coben — part memoir, part masterclass from the #1 New York Times bestselling thriller writer.

With 100 million books in print and more than twenty film and television adaptations, Coben has spent decades making readers turn pages. Here he looks behind the curtain.

For the first time he tells his own story: a suburban New Jersey childhood, the early years of rejection, and the real-life sparks behind some of his most famous characters and twists. Then he turns to craft — not as a list of tidy categories (character, plot, setting) but as one messy, holistic process.

This is a book about being a writer as much as writing: self-doubt, hubris, contradictions, and the simple test Coben lives by. If it helps him produce pages, good. If it doesn’t, bad.

Honest, funny, and unexpectedly moving, Plot Twist is for fans who want the man behind Myron Bolitar and the Netflix hits — and for anyone who wants to get words on the page.