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Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar) by Harlan Coben
Book Summary InformationAuthor: Harlan Coben Edition: Mass Market Paperback Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published) Published: 1996-02-05 ISBN: 0440220459 Number of pages: 352 Publisher: Dell
Book Reviews of Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar)Book Review: an efficient and perfectly enjoyable murder mystery... Summary: 4 StarsHarlan Coben certainly likes to churn out his Myron Bolitar mysteries. Thankfully 'Drop Shot' is among the more sane and enjoyable entries. In it we have our sport agent cum private investigator trying to sort out seemingly interrelated murders connected to his star tennis player, all taking place during the US Open. There is sex, violence and lots of flippant dialogue. Yes, there are plot twists in the end. But compared to other works of Harlan Coben I found the ending to 'Drop Shot' to at least be rational, although hardly believable.
Bottom line: a fast-paced, funny thriller. Recommended.
Summary of Drop Shot (Myron Bolitar)Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who's now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent. Myron, who's also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn't be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron's number one client becomes the number one suspect.Clearing Duane's name should be easy enough. Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie's death. But why is his phone number in Valerie's black book when he claims only to have known her in passing? Why was she calling him from a phone booth on the street? The police stop caring once they pin the murder on a man known for having stalked Valerie and seen talking to her moments before the murder. But Myron isn't satisfied. It seems too clean for him. Myron pries a bit and finds himself prying open the past where six years before, Valerie's fiancee, the son of a senator, was brutally murdered by a juvenile delinquent and a straight-A student was subsequently gunned down on the street in retaliation, his death squandered in bureaucratic files. And everyone from the Senator to the mob want Myron to stop digging. The truth beneath the truth is not only dangerous, it's deadly. And Myron may be the next victim. In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction--Myron Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.
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