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Harlan Coben Quiz: Legendary Challenge

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What was the title of Harlan Coben’s first novel?

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Play Dead, published in 1990, five years before the Bolitar series began.

What was Coben’s second novel, published in 1991?

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Miracle Cure followed Play Dead and, like it, sold modestly.

Which novel introduced Myron Bolitar in 1995?

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Deal Breaker was his third novel and the first of the series that made his name in the genre.

By 2017, how many works of fiction had Coben published?

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Thirty-six works of fiction by then, at close to a book a year since the mid-1990s.

How many copies of Coben’s books were in print worldwide by 2018?

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More than 75 million copies in print, a figure both his publishers and Netflix used at the time.

How many further titles did the 2022 Netflix extension add?

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Deadline reported a four-year extension adding twelve more titles, including the whole Bolitar series.

Which high school did Coben attend, alongside a future governor of New Jersey?

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Livingston High School, where Chris Christie was a contemporary.

In which New Jersey town does Harlan Coben live?

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Ridgewood, in Bergen County, one of the more expensive commuter towns in the north of the state.

In which New Jersey city was Coben born?

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He was born in Newark on 4 January 1962 and was brought up in nearby Livingston.

Besides Britain and the United States, the Coben adaptations have been made in which countries?

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Spanish, French and Polish productions have all been made, which is what made the overall deal unusual for a novelist.

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