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Reese Witherspoon Debuts Co‑Written Thriller ‘Gone Before Goodbye’ With Harlan Coben

She casts its Army-surgeon heroine as a tribute to her medic parents to encourage more girls to pursue surgical careers.

Overview

  • Witherspoon and Coben launched the book tour in Los Angeles during Hello Sunshine’s Shine Away summit.
  • Gone Before Goodbye is set for publication on Oct. 14.
  • The audiobook features Witherspoon voicing protagonist Maggie McCabe, with Chris Pine also performing.
  • The thriller follows an Army combat and reconstructive surgeon drawn into private medicine and the orbit of Russian billionaires, with contemporary themes including AI.
  • Witherspoon developed the idea over about two and a half years before partnering with Coben, who says they wrote it solely as a two-person team without outside writers.