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Summary: What a wonderful cast of characters!!
Review: There are only two other series I can remember where I fell in love with the entire cast of characters in the first book--Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series and Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake series. Myron, Win, Jessica, Esperanza.....WOW!!With twists and turns to keep me guessing and Myron to keep me laughing, I plan on reading through this series as slow as possible....in order to draw out the pleasure!
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Summary: Entertaining!!
Review: This is the first book in the series. It's fast-paced and exciting. The characters are well-developed and the plot twists and turns. I'm planning to read the other books as well. Read this and you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Good Read
Review: this was good, kept me into it but it is not as good as tell no one.
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Summary: Buy this book!
Review: To be honest, I am not a big mystery novel fan... It's probably because I had bad luck- I kept picking up lame cliche mystery novels that are predictable and, so I lost interest in this genre. This is the book that got me back. Harlan Coben has done a great job, I can see why this novel won some awards: the character is lovable and the hard-to-guess plots. Go buy this book, you won't be disappointed.
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Summary: Quick moving, funny, and just nasty enough.
Review: What a fun book to read! Literate, great character development. A funny, smart-aleck, self-effacing sports agent/PI who looks to do the best for his clients, but finds out things about them that he wished he didn't know. Almost a Spenser type complete with bone-breaking sidekick. This has the potential to be a great series
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Summary: Great Beginning
Review: What a great beginning to a series! If you like sports and Robert Parker's wise cracking detective "Spenser", you'll love Coben's Myron Bolitar. All of the books in the series have a sports theme. The main character, Myron, was a great basketball player at Duke winning an NCAA championship. He was drafted by the Celtics, but a knee injury ended his career. Now as a sports agent, he helps out his clients "who seem to habitually get into some rather peculiar jams." You also get a kind of behind the scenes look at sports management. I just discovered the series in June and can't put them down. Sad to say there are only 7 in the series as of this writing. Similar to other PI series you have the star, Myron. The sidekick, Win (think of Spenser's "Hawk" with a preppy, Wall Street, psychopath twist). The love interest. That is where any resemblance to other PI novels ends. Myron still lives with his parents. He loves to drink Yoo-Hoo. His secretary is a former wrestling star. One of her dearest friends is her former tag team partner, Big Cindy! It sounds crazy but you'll grow to love these characters. More suspense than mystery, this book, like all of them in the series, is a page turner. Myron's client, the #1 pick in the NFL draft, receives a phone call from his former girl friend who disappeared years ago and everyone believed to be dead. Then her photo shows up in a "girly" magazine ad for a sex hotline. With many twists and turns along the way Myron tries to sort out the truth. This is a five star read.
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Summary: The Beginning of a Great Series
Review: When God made man, Harlan Coben should have given him the blueprint for Myron Bolitar. Myron is the type of man all of us women would love to have. He's a big guy, athletic, and very
sensitive. He missed his chance at being a star
basketball player from a knee injury. He worked for the government for a while, then became a sports agent, owning
his own company. The secondary characters are fascinating,
too. His good friend and associate, Win, is a sociopath.
He looks like a rich, spoilt pushover. Rich and spoilt he is,
but he can be lethal in a fight. He counts on the bad guys
forming that opinion of him. Esperanza, an ex-wrestler, is another business associate and his best friend.
In Deal Breaker, Myron Bolitar has just landed his first big client, Christian Steele. When Christian's girlfriend,who is presumed dead, calls him on the phone, everything changes. Myron agrees to investigate for Christian and learns more than he bargained for. What is so fascinating to me is nothing about this series is simple. Just when you are expecting a simple finale exposing the bad guy, more layers of the puzzle are laid bare before you, the reader. Each book gets better and better as you go. I highly recommend this series. It is funny and sensitive and never boring.
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Summary: Read This Book, Or You'll Be "Squirrel Lunch"
Review: You have to read the book to get the humor in my review title... The first in the "Myron Bolitar" series, DEAL BREAKER is the perfect start. Bolitar, a college basketball star turned sports' agent,... has just landed his best prospect, rookie quarterback, Christian Steele. While negotiating his contract, Christian gets a phone call from his assumed-to-be-dead fiance... Throw in a mob contract on Myron's head, and you have one entertaining read. The storyline is forever twisting, but Coben never suspends reality. The plot is always believable and never farfetched. Each character is incredibly well-developed, and the group meshes together quite well. This first book serves to introduce this wonderful cast of people that will be in other "Bolitar" books. What makes Coben's books so enjoyable is the dialogue between the characters. Myron is incredibly witty, and he clearly rubs off on all the other characters in the book. It adds a much greater human element to the novel, which allows the cogent storyline to develop exceptionally well, and keep the reader forever guessing. This is an excellent book that was truly hard to put down. The writing is sensational, and it is quite clear that Coben puts a lot of thought into each storyline. The suspense, alone, is great, making the book that much better.
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