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Find you first, a novel, Linwood Barclay

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Find you first

Linwood Barclay

a novel

"Tech billionaire Miles Cookson has more money than he can ever hope to spend, and everything he could dream of--except time. Only forty-two years old, he's recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and there is a 50 percent chance that it can be passed on to the next generation. But Miles, a confirmed bachelor, doesn't have children. Or does he? The shattering diagnosis forces him to take a long hard look at his past... Two decades ago, a struggling young Miles, desperate for cash, donated his sperm to a fertility clinic. That money turned out to be key to his eventual success. Now he can't stop thinking about the children he may have fathered--and what, if anything, he owes them. Somewhere out there, he has kids--nine of them it turns out. And they might be about to inherit both the good and the bad from him--maybe his fortune, and possibly something much worse. As Miles begins to search for the children he's never known, aspiring film documentarian Chloe Swanson embarks on a quest to find her biological father, armed with the knowledge that twenty-two years ago, her mother used a New York sperm bank to become pregnant. Chloe soon locates one sibling, a half brother, Todd, and she's eager to meet more. When Miles and Chloe eventually connect, their excitement at finding each other is overshadowed by a series of mysterious and terrifying events. One by one, the other potential heirs are vanishing--every trace of them erased, as if they never existed at all. Who is the vicious killer eliminating Miles's offspring--is it one possible beneficiary methodically eliminating rivals? Or is something even more sinister afoot? Suspenseful and surprising, imaginative and timely, filled with the jaw-dropping twists that are emblamatic of Linwood Barclay's numerous bestsellers, and unfolding with pulse-pounding propulsion that accelerates with every page, Find You First is top-notch entertainment from 'a master of manipulation' (Associated Press) at the pinnacle of his storytelling power"--, Dust jacket

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