Bolitar's Game: Back Spin / The Final Detail / Darkest Fear

Myron Bolitar #4,6,7

by Harlan Coben

Golf, baseball, basketball...murder-it's all Myron Bolitar's game! This exclusive Mystery Guild omnibus edition includes three complete novels, all featuring wise-cracking, Yoo-hoor guzzling sports agent Myron Bolitar, his fetching assistant Esperanza Diaz-known as Little Pocohontas in her pro wrestling day--and his preppy sidekick Windsor Horne Lockwood III, who has his own agenda for justice.

Genres: Fiction, Mystery, Mystery Thriller

776 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 2002

About the author

Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries with seventy-five million books in print worldwide.

His books have earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many have been developed into Netflix Original Drama series, including his adaptations of The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good and The Woods. His most recent adaptation for Netflix, Stay Close, premiered on December 31, 2021 and stars Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage.

Reviews

[Patrick · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an enjoyable read. It consisted of three books in the Myron Bolitar series. Reading them together was a good way to get a nice progression into the events of his life. Supposedly he is a Sports Rep. However he manages to get himself involved in a fair number of mysteries. I guess that's what makes life interesting these days. That must be why I read it. I tend not to get tangled up in those kind of mysteries, except in my mind. But if you read it, maybe you will too.

[Brieanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Took me awhile to get through, but that might’ve been more of a me problem. The stories still had the same sarcasm/humor and unexpected twists at the end that I’ve always appreciated from this author’s books. Though at times, the conversations between characters seemed a little drawn out or a bit exaggerated. 3.5 stars.

[Judy Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

All three super fun to read.

[Wanda Hartzenberg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loving reading a series such as this back to back. Gives a very good sense of the growth of the characters.

[Jeànne Stafne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Darkest Fear was the best book. The other two, just so so.

[Kathy Dagg · Rating 4 out of 5]

Too much glib wiseass. I got tired of the stupid stuff.

[Ethan Holmes · Rating 2 out of 5]

Every once in a while, I read a book, or try to, that makes me want to throw it against the wall and then into the donate pile. This is one of them. I didn't get ten pages in before I ran into some of the worst writing I've seen in a so-called 'best-selling author'. Once again I am faced with proof that being a writer who writes well is not at all what is important out there. Twenty and thirty pages in it doesn't get any better; not the dialogue, the character development, the story line. It is said, to be a great writer, read great books. This isn't one of them.

[Becky · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like the cast of characters in the Bolitar series, especially the wise-cracking Myron. This collection of three Bolitar stories provided several hours of diversion. There was good diversity of plot, and they covered several sports. Sidekick and love interest Esperanza is drawn well by this male author. She comes across as believable--somewhat unlike Big Cindy, the comic foil. Bolitar's "muscle," Win, even comes across in these stories as human and not just pathological.

[Colette · Rating 4 out of 5]

3 separate books in this one
Back spin was a out the kidnapping of a major golf players son
Final detail is about a Murder for which Esperanza was arrested
And darkest fear was about Myron chasing a dream that maybe he is a father which I read and reviewed separately.