No one conducts a more chilling, suspenseful, thoroughly engrossing tour through the winding corridors of criminal behavior and the secret chambers of psychopathology than Jonathan Kellerman, the bestselling “master of the psychological thriller” (People). Now the incomparable team of psychologist Alex Delaware and homicide cop Milo Sturgis embark on their most dangerous excursion yet, into the dark places where risk runs high and blood runs cold.
It's a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor.
The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation and assault.
But before long, doubts arise about the couple's story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. Charged as criminals themselves, the aspiring actors claim emotional problems, and the court orders psychological evaluation for both.
Michaela is examined by Alex Delaware, who finds that her claims of depression and stress ring true enough. But they don't explain her lies, and Alex is certain that there are hidden layers in this sordid psychodrama that even he hasn't been able to penetrate.
Nevertheless, the case is closed - only to be violently reopened when Michaela is savagely murdered. When the police look for Dylan, they find that he's gone. Is he the killer or a victim himself? Casting their dragnet into the murkiest corners of L.A., Delaware and Sturgis unearth more questions than answers - including a host of eerily identical killings. What really happened to the couple who cried wolf? And what bizarre and brutal epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness, and sudden, twisted death?
It's a story tailor-made for the nightly news: Dylan Meserve and Michaela Brand, young lovers and fellow acting students, vanish on the way home from a rehearsal. Three days later, the two of them are found in the remote mountains of Malibu -battered and terrified after a harrowing ordeal at the hands of a sadistic abductor.
The details of the nightmarish event are shocking and brutal: The couple was carjacked at gunpoint by a masked assailant and subjected to a horrific regimen of confinement, starvation and assault.
But before long, doubts arise about the couple's story, and as forensic details unfold, the abduction is exposed as a hoax. Charged as criminals themselves, the aspiring actors claim emotional problems, and the court orders psychological evaluation for both.
Michaela is examined by Alex Delaware, who finds that her claims of depression and stress ring true enough. But they don't explain her lies, and Alex is certain that there are hidden layers in this sordid psychodrama that even he hasn't been able to penetrate.
Nevertheless, the case is closed - only to be violently reopened when Michaela is savagely murdered. When the police look for Dylan, they find that he's gone. Is he the killer or a victim himself? Casting their dragnet into the murkiest corners of L.A., Delaware and Sturgis unearth more questions than answers - including a host of eerily identical killings. What really happened to the couple who cried wolf? And what bizarre and brutal epidemic is infecting the city with terror, madness, and sudden, twisted death?
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Hardback Editions
July 2007 : Hardback
| Title: Gone (Charnwood Large Print) Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 1-84617-807-X / 9781846178078 (UK edition) Publisher: Ulverscroft Large Print Books Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2006 : Hardback
| Title: Gone Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7181-4821-5 / 978-0-7181-4821-8 (UK edition) Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
April 2006 : Hardback
| Title: Gone: A Novel Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7393-2604-X / 978-0-7393-2604-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Large Print Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2006 : Hardback
| Title: Gone (Alex Delaware Novels) Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-345-45261-5 / 978-0-345-45261-0 (USA edition) Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2006 : Hardback
| Title: Gone (Large Print) Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7394-6673-9 / 978-0-7394-6673-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
2003 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
June 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Gone Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-14-102195-0 / 978-0-14-102195-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Gone: A Novel Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7393-2702-X / 978-0-7393-2702-9 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Large Print Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2007 : Paperback
| Title: Gone Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-14-102989-7 / 978-0-14-102989-4 (UK edition) Publisher: Penguin Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2007 : Mass Market Paperback
| Title: Gone (Alex Delaware, No. 20) Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-345-45262-3 / 978-0-345-45262-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
October 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Gone Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7181-5009-0 / 978-0-7181-5009-9 (UK edition) Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 2006 : Paperback
| Title: Gone Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7181-4822-3 / 978-0-7181-4822-5 (UK edition) Publisher: Michael Joseph Ltd Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
Audio Editions
March 2007 : Audio CD
| Title: Gone: A Novel Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7393-5707-7 / 978-0-7393-5707-1 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
September 2006 : Audio CD
| Title: Gone (K) Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7531-2600-1 / 978-0-7531-2600-4 (UK edition) Publisher: ISIS Audio Books Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
September 2006 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Gone (k) Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7531-3568-X / 978-0-7531-3568-6 (UK edition) Publisher: ISIS Audio Books Availability: Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 2006 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Gone: A Novel Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7393-0976-5 / 978-0-7393-0976-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
March 2006 : Audio CD
| Title: Gone Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7393-0977-3 / 978-0-7393-0977-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
March 2006 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Gone: A Novel Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7393-0979-X / 978-0-7393-0979-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon CA More details... |
March 2006 : Audio CD
| Title: Gone: A Novel Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7393-2478-0 / 978-0-7393-2478-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Audio Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
2006 : Audio Cassette
| Title: Gone (Alex Delaware) Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 1-4159-2711-1 / 978-1-4159-2711-3 (USA edition) Publisher: Books on Tape Availability: Amazon More details... |
Other Editions
July 2007 : Unknown
| Title: Gone Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 0-7393-7485-0 / 978-0-7393-7485-6 (USA edition) Publisher: Playaway Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
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May 2007 : Unknown
| Title: Hoot, Playaway Library Edition Author(s): Carl Hiaasen ISBN: 0-7393-7489-3 / 978-0-7393-7489-4 (USA edition) Publisher: Playaway Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2007 : Unknown
| Title: Gone Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 1-60252-029-1 / 9781602520295 (USA edition) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
May 2007 : Unknown
| Title: Gone: Library Edition Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman ISBN: 1-60252-529-3 / 9781602525290 (USA edition) Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 2006 : Kindle edition
| Title: Gone: An Alex Delaware Novel Author(s): Jonathan Kellerman Publisher: Ballantine Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
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