{"description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\u201cA page-turner. Don\u2019t start reading it if you\u2019ve got important business the next morning becauseHold Tight will keep you up all night.\u201d\r\n\u2014 San Francisco Chronicle\r\n\r\n\u201cA fast and exhilarating roller-coaster ride that you don\u2019t want to end, but hold on tight. Then take the time to hug your kids.\u201d\r\n\u2014Library Journal (Starred Review)\r\n\r\n\u201cCOMPULSIVE PAGE-TURNER\u2026\r\n\u201cHow do you weigh a child\u2019s privacy against a parent\u2019s right to know?\u2026\r\n\u201cHow do you differentiate normal teenage rebelliousness from out-of-control behavior?\u2026\r\n\u201cWhen and how do you intervene if suicidal signs appear?\u2026\r\n\u201cCoben plucks each of these strings like a virtuoso as Mike and Tia Baye try to deal with the increasing withdrawal of their 16-year-old son, Adam, after a friend\u2019s suicide. A pair of brutal, seemingly senseless killings, punctuate the unfolding domestic troubles that ratchet up the tension and engulf the Baye family, their friends and neighbors in a web of increasing tragedy.\r\n\u201cThe \u2018this could be me\u2019 factor lends poignancy to the thrills and chills.\u201d \u2014Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)"}, "covers": [8647964, 8739259, -1, 11796980, 9066760, 10224790, 10397614, 10871233, 12892033, 12811113, 10574515, 13210665, 13788250, 12260417, 12261420, 12720295, 7395635, 15196229], "key": "/works/OL79343W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL39821A"}}], "title": "Hold Tight", "subjects": ["Teenagers", "Fiction", "Parent and child", "Suspense", "Missing persons", "Thriller", "Large type books", "Suicide", "nyt:mass-market-paperback=2009-03-22", "New York Times bestseller", "Fiction, suspense", "Missing persons, fiction", "Parent and child, fiction", "Physicians, fiction", "Fiction, thrillers, suspense", "Novela", "Suicidio", "Personas desaparecidas", "Fiction, thrillers, general", "Personnes disparues", "Litt\u00e9rature am\u00e9ricaine", "Roman policier am\u00e9ricain", "Roman policier", "Roman", "Attitudes", "Ordinateurs", "Romans, nouvelles", "Parents et enfants", "Adolescence", "Teenage boys", "Polish language materials", "Gar\u00e7ons adolescents", "Detective and mystery stories", "Adolescents"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "genres": ["/tags/OL180T", "/tags/OL175T"], "latest_revision": 24, "revision": 24, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-10-17T00:22:43.378301"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2026-08-30T02:26:14.143479"}}