Tell No One

it? But yeah, I think it gives you, you know, anything after that is pretty good.

Where are we going next? We're going next to Tell No One is arguably the book that broke you out as a major best-selling thriller writer and widely regarded as one of the best thrillers ever written.

The New York Times recently included it in their top 50 thriller books of the 21st century.

Other than the book being an incredible singular read, what do you think made it break out?

So, yeah, we have that.

I was 39 when that happened.

And Tell No One was my first New York Times bestseller.

And it first hit the list on July 11th.

I mean, I, I come up with, like I just mentioned to you with Promise Me, right? I come up with an idea.

Um, my, my breakout book was a book called Tell No One, and the story was a, a man, his wife is murdered.

Eight years pass, he still can't get over her death.

He's still suffering.

And you've been able to channel all of this great creativity into I think one of the things that I was surprised by in the book is that a lot of the stories trace back to your suburban childhood.

And I'll just throw out some, okay? Tell no one, the strangers, fool me once.

Tell me a little bit about that self-discovery where you're like, wait a minute, I just channeled ideas from my own upbringing.

Yeah, I mean, a lot of fiction writing, we know a lot of fiction writing is asking, what if? You know, we just go around life asking, what if? But just the small, strange things that happen.

Let's hear it.

Let's look at the 2006 French production, Tell No One.

Oh, the trivia on this one is wild.

It really is.

Out of all the millions of books sold, out of all the streaming empires built, Tell No One is the first and only feature film adaptation of Coben's work.

The only one.

The plot is legendary.

Okay, I need you to explain this to me then.