The Elusive Mr. McCoy

The Elusive Mr. McCoy
by Brenda L. Baker

A man collapses in a coffee shop and two wallets are found on him, both have his picture but they have different first names.  Is the mystery man David or Eric?  Soon it's found out that David and Eric had completely different lives.  

Both are married to different women.  David was married to Lesley and he was a wilderness guide.  Eric was married to Kendra and he was an analyst for Middle Eastern politics.   They are unable to get answers from David/Eric because he is in a coma.

Both women are devastated when they find out that their husband lied to them, cheated on them, and married another woman.  Not only that, they go on to find out that he lied about who he even was to both of them.  He is not a wilderness guide and he is not an analyst for Middle Eastern politics.  He doesn't work as either one of those.  They  have no idea who this man is, he just pretended to be whoever he thought that they wanted him to be. 

The book eventually does have a few chapters of David/Eric so you are able to learn more about when he was younger and how he got to where he ended up marrying two women and lying about his whole life.

I felt bad for the two women, they still seemed to care about him.  Even after I read about his past, I still really didn't like the guy.  He was a selfish jerk.  He could have divorced his first wife, instead of doing what he did.  It wasn't necessary to tell lies nonstop about his life to them either.  

It was an interesting book, the story was something a little different.  And the same character having two different fake lives, who he really was and the two different women could have been confusing since so much different stuff was going on, but it wasn't hard to follow.