If You Were Here e-bog

From New York Times bestselling author Alafair Burke comesa suspenseful, tightly plotted story of friendship, lies, and betrayal.Journalist McKenna Jordan is chasing the latest urban folktalethe story of an unidentified woman who heroically pulled a teenaged boy from the subway tracks, seconds before the approach of an oncoming train. When McKenna locates a video snippet that purportedly captures the incident, she thinks she has an edge on the competition scrambling to identify the mystery heroine.McKenna is shocked to discover that the woman in the video bears a strong resemblance to Susan Hauptmann, a close friendand a classmate of her husbands at West Pointwho vanished without a trace ten years earlier. The NYPD concluded that the nomadic Susanforced by her father into an early military life, floundering as an adult for a fixed identitysimply started over again somewhere else.But McKenna has always believed the truth went deeper than the police investigation ever reached. What might have been a short-lived metro story sends her on a twisting search that leads across New York Cityand to dark secrets buried dangerously close to home