Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, Book 3)
by Harlan Coben
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Author: Harlan CobenEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-08-26
ISBN: 0385342500
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Delacorte Press
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Book Review: Crackles with Action
Summary: 5 Stars
I couldn't put it down. Fade Away by one of my new favorite contemporary authors Harlan Coben is a rollicking and excellent read. A sort of guy's Stephanie Meyer, if you will.
The story of great hopes dashed by a white superstar basketball player at Duke, drafted by a Red Auerbach-type GM of the Boston Celtics, who suffers a horrible knee injury before playing a single regular season game. This Myron Bolitar, whom I take to be Jewish, doesn't look back. It's a good message to disappointment: don't dwell on what could have been.
Bolitar goes on to graduate from Harvard Law, found his own Jerry Maguire-like sports agency, and become an heterodox PI with the help of a couple of colorful side kicks: Esperanza, a former svelte female professional wrestler, and Win, a blond beast following the Superman ethics of Friedrich Nietzsche. This Win, a sort of Whit Stillman WASP with .44 magnum fists and impeccable timing, I found intriguing, living the dream I sometimes wish I could engage in if I didn't have to worry about the repercussions. But that's no way to talk to a girl, Win.
Ten years after Bolitar's hopes were dashed to play in the NBA he unexpectedly receives a call to play for the NJ Dragons, in order to search for a flaky superstar player who has gone missing again. Another white guy in the black-dominated sport who happens to have been Bolitar's big rival at UNC.
A murder is uncovered. And a female sports writer very quickly uncovers the cover story of Bolitar's hiring. We also meet Cyndi, a giantess whom we haven't seen the likes of since Mark Helprin's Soldier of the Great War, who celebrates being asked out for a date in a way that registers on seismographs. You'll understand once you read the book, which I think you should.
The narrative is wild. The ending will probably be a gotcha. And you'll find out what SWB means. My only criticisms are that Coben, a very skilled technician and obviously hard worker, neglected to hyphenate what my AP Stylebook says to do in writing eighth-grader, for example. Also, Bobby Hurley's picture kept coming up in my brain. He's from NJ and suffered injury that threatened his NBA playing days. But it's not a nice picture, Bobby Hurley that is. I hate Duke basketball anyway, being a Michigan State football man.
Tiny criticism in an otherwise very fun book, first published in 1996 but re-released in 2008 by Delacorte Press in hardcover. Four and a half stars.
I look forward to many more hours of enjoyment with Myron Bolitar as I have received from Daniel Silva's Gabriel Allon. Thanks, Mr. Coben!
Summary of Fade Away (Myron Bolitar, Book 3)
The home was top-notch New Jersey suburban. The living room was Martha Stewart. The basement was Legos?and blood. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, the disappearance of a man he'd once competed against was bringing back memories?of the sport he and Greg Downing had both played and the woman they both loved. Now, among the stars, the wanna-bes, the gamblers and groupies, Myron is unraveling the strange, violent life of a sports hero gone wrong, and coming face-to-face with a past he can't relive, and a present he may not survive.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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