Harlan Coben is not only a brilliant action author. He’s a brilliant teacher. With great wit and a down-to-earth speaking style, he gets right to the heart of the mindset and the tools a writer needs to strengthen his or her understanding of how to cook a great novel using the basic ingredients starting with plot-character-theme-twists-dialogue-place…he inspired me to dust off an incomplete play and HRlanize it a little bit.