One False Move (Myron Bolitar Mysteries)
by Harlan CobenSign in to Goodreads to see your friends' reviews of this book.
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Read in April, 2008
This is the fifth book in the Myron Bolitar series and personally, I think it's the best I've read - and I've loved the previous four. In this caper, Myron is hired by his buddy Norm Zuckerman to "protect" Brenda Slaughter. She's been receiving threatening phone calls and her father is missing. Reluctantly, Myron agrees to help out and starts looking for Brenda's father and Brenda's mother who walked out on their family when Brenda was five. Myron doesn't count on falling for Brend...more
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Read in October, 2008
This is probably my favorite of the Myron Bolitar mysteries by Coben. I listened to it this time, and I'm not crazy about the reader. It didn't seem like he had the same intensity throughout the entire book.
There were things in the story that I had glossed over the other times I had read it. There was an obscure Joe Biden reference that seemed to pop out at me given our current political situation. And, there was a reference to the Billy Jack series of movies that I immediately had to...more
There were things in the story that I had glossed over the other times I had read it. There was an obscure Joe Biden reference that seemed to pop out at me given our current political situation. And, there was a reference to the Billy Jack series of movies that I immediately had to...more
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Read in May, 2003
Harlan Coben, One False Move (Delacorte, 1998)
Harlan Coben's fourth novel, and the fourth in the Myron Bolitar series, One False Move gives Coben a new client with bad surroundings. (Surprise, surprise, eh?) Brenda Slaughter is the star player in the new Women's Professional Basketball League. WPBL head Norm Zuckerman wants Bolitar to represent Slaughter, since her father, who had managed her career up till a week before, had gone missing. Slaughter's mother had done the same twenty years befo...more
Harlan Coben's fourth novel, and the fourth in the Myron Bolitar series, One False Move gives Coben a new client with bad surroundings. (Surprise, surprise, eh?) Brenda Slaughter is the star player in the new Women's Professional Basketball League. WPBL head Norm Zuckerman wants Bolitar to represent Slaughter, since her father, who had managed her career up till a week before, had gone missing. Slaughter's mother had done the same twenty years befo...more
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Read in September, 2007
I really enjoy the Myron Bolitar sport agent crime novels. I loved this novel. First of all, let me say that you need to read this series in order because it slowly reveals different aspects of the characters. The mystery in this one isn't the best one so far. However, I give it a higher rating for the progression of the characters in the big picture. I didn't like that Mr. Coben had another basketball player in this one. I was looking for him to jump to another sport like he has in the past. I ...more
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Read in November, 2008
I love the Myron Bolitar character, and I love Harlan Coben's witty writing.
With lines like ... "She leaned back and crossed legs longer than a DMV at lunchtime", what isn't to love?
This book was just as gripping as his others, and I enjoyed it immensely.
There were some surprises toward the end, Coben throwing in some new aspects of Myron's character, and changes in his life. I am going to read the next in the series soon, I want to see where he takes it.
With lines like ... "She leaned back and crossed legs longer than a DMV at lunchtime", what isn't to love?
This book was just as gripping as his others, and I enjoyed it immensely.
There were some surprises toward the end, Coben throwing in some new aspects of Myron's character, and changes in his life. I am going to read the next in the series soon, I want to see where he takes it.
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I have just read it, since it has only been recently published in French.
My first experience of Coben's work turns out to be a very nice surprise. I have read it from the first page to the last, with a true pleasure and a real sence of entertainment.
My first experience of Coben's work turns out to be a very nice surprise. I have read it from the first page to the last, with a true pleasure and a real sence of entertainment.
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Marsha loaned me this book because he is her favorite author. Also found out that he is Bryant Gumbles favorite too. Myron Bolitair is a great character, a tough, wisecraking guy on the outside, but vulnerable and sensitive at heart. The rest of the characters are interesting as well. The plot is fast paced, with lots of twists, and a susprising ending. Good descriptions of the setting, and many interesting observations as well. I enjoyed "Myron" and found him likeable but it had a lot...more
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My enjoyment of this thriller was marred somewhat by the fact that I read it after a later one and knew something important that was going to happen. However it was a bloody good thriller nevertheless.
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Read in January, 2008
Wow!!!! This book deserves to be read agin. Suspense, depth, compelling characters and more twists and turns than I've experienced in any mystery novel in a long time. Most important to me was an appropriately balanced amount of self-examination on the part of the main character especially when faced with issues of race, poverty and violence. I love Harlan Coben's ability to write his characters as real people and not stereotypes like so many writers do. This has become my all-time favorite no...more
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I was a little disappointed with this book. The subplot was a bit weak; if Myron wanted to end his relationship I couldn't buy the quick intro of Brenda Slaughter as the new interest. She was just too right - daughter of Myron's basketball mentor; and she plays professional women's baskeetball. It was too much - too quickly. But the ending was spectacular!!
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