And thus begins the main plot of Harlan Coben’s latest bestselling novel, Hold Tight.Īround the Baye family play the dramas of modern suburbia.
Faced with an increasingly sullen and detached son and unable to find an explanation, they decide, reluctantly, to monitor his computer activity. Add to that the electron-enabled menace of online pedophiles, and a parent could be excused for spending all day, every day, filtering what his or her child sees. Today’s parents face not the occasional magazine issue, but a daily tsunami of e-mails, images and free-range Internet mayhem, all delivered direct to a child’s bedroom. Only later did I learn that my father, deciding that the special issue, titled “Love and the Automobile,” was too racy for a 13-year-old, had confiscated it. $26.95 hardcover.Īs a young subscriber to Motor Trend magazine, I was befuddled when one issue simply failed to arrive. December 2009: What to Read When by Pam Allyn '84īy Harlan Coben ’84.November 2009: On Poets and Poetry by William H.October 2009: Julie & Julia by Julie Powell '95.September 2009: Rules for Old Men Waiting by Peter Pouncey.August 2009: The End of Overeating by David Kessler '73.June 2009: Art and Politics of Science by Harold Varmus '61.May 2009: Hold Tight by Harlan Coben '84.April 2009: Passing Strange by Marni Sandweiss.
March 2009: Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian '82.February 2009: Loneliness as a Way of Life by Tom Dumm.January 2009: Painter from Shanghai by Jennifer Cody Epstein '88.She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera's range but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community. Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son's death and he wasn't alone. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam's computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son - 'Just stay quiet and all safe.' But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill - the latest in a string of issues at school - they can't help but worry. Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they'd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids.
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