Volg de avonturen van een driftige, maar goedhartige sportagent die zich begeeft in de wereld van professionele sport. Deze spannende serie combineert razendsnelle actie, scherpe humor en ingewikkelde plots, vaak met onverwachte wendingen. Lezers worden meegezogen in het complexe leven van topsporters en de sluwe manoeuvres van hun vertegenwoordigers. Het is een perfecte mix voor wie houdt van spanning met een flinke dosis humor.
Investigator and sports agent Myron Bolitar is poised on the edge of the big-time. So is Christian Steele, a rookie quarterback and Myron's prized client. But when Christian gets a phone call from a former girlfriend, a woman who everyone, including the police, believes is dead, the deal starts to go sour. Suddenly Myron is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail. Trying to unravel the truth about a family's tragedy, a woman's secret and a man's lies, Myron is up against the dark side of his business - where image and talent make you rich, but the truth can get you killed.
In the second Myron Bolitar novel from Edgar Award–winner Harlan Coben, a young woman’s tragic death spirals into a shattering drama of menace, secrets, and rage. Suddenly Myron is in over his head—and playing the most dangerous game of all.Once, Valerie Simpson’s tennis career skyrocketed; now, the headlines belong to a player from the wrong side of the tracks. But when Valerie is shot dead in cold blood and dropped outside the stadium at the U.S. Open, sports agent Myron Bolitar investigates the killing and uncovers a connection between the two players and a six-year-old murder at an exclusive mainline club. As Myron is drawn into the case—along with a dirty U.S. senator, a jealous mother, and the mob—he finds himself caught between a killer and the truth.
The boy was born and raised on the Main Line. But he vanished on Philadelphia's mean streets - last seen in a down-town cheater's hotel. For sports agent Myron Bolitar, his client, superstar Linda Coldren, comes first, and that means unravelling the mystery of her son's kidnapping. But when Myron goes after the missing boy, he crashes through a crowd of low-lifes, blue bloods and liars on both sides of the social divide. And when family skeletons start coming out of the closet, Myron is about to find out how deadly life can get...
De eigenaar van een agentschap voor sporters raakt door zijn bemoeienis met een vrouwelijke basketball-ster betrokken bij een politieke intrige waarbij het nodige bloed vloeit.
Myron Bolitar is a fascinating character--a guy in his 30s who just moved into his own New York apartment, and who still looks forward to dinner with his parents in New Jersey. A former pro-basketball star and Harvard Law School grad, he now runs his own sports agency, and also dabbles in the private investigation business. He is helped (and sometimes hindered) by his rich, blond, preppy friend Windsor Horne Lockwood III. Win has some awesome lethal powers hidden under his Brooks Brothers suits!In The Final Detail Win and Myron are looking into the murder of a client--a troubled New York Yankees baseball player called Clu Haid. Clu was apparently shot to death by Esperanza Diaz, who just happens to be Myron's best friend and partner in the sport's agency. Esperanza is hiding something, but Myron isn't sure if it has to do with her job, or with her private life. His search for the truth takes him back to a shabby incident from his own past, and to times he would rather forget. Author Harlan Coben casually drops in dozens of poignant moments of humanity that keep us--and Myron--firmly grounded in reality.Other books in this excellent series include Backspin, Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, and One False Move. --Dick Adler
The school year is almost over. In these last pressure cooker months of high school, some kids will make the all too common and all too dangerous mistake of drinking and driving. But Myron is determined to help keep his friends’ children safe, and so he makes two neighborhood girls promise him that if they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they will call him. Several nights later, the call comes at two a.m. The next day, a girl is missing, and Myron is the last person who saw her. Desperate to fulfill a well-intentioned promise turned horribly wrong, Myron races to find her before she’s gone forever.
Myron Bolitar heeft al jaren niks gehoord van Terese Collins. Niet sinds hun affaire abrupt tot een einde kwam. Haar telefoontje, waarin ze hem smeekt om naar Parijs te komen, overrompelt hem dan ook. Terese vertelt eindelijk waarom ze zo plots uit zijn leven was verdwenen - over haar verwoede pogingen om zwanger te worden, over de geboorte van haar dochter en over het fatale ongeluk dat er voor zorgde dat ze alles in één klap kwijt was. In Parijs blijkt Terese te worden verdacht van de noord op haar ex-man. Het politieonderzoek onthult bovendien een lang verborgen familiegeheim. Myron staat er alleen voor om Tereses onschuld te bewijzen in een land waar niemand hem gunstig gezind lijkt te zijn. Tijdens zijn zoektocht stuit Myron op duistere praktijken met wereldschokkende gevolgen.
A beautiful woman walking into Myron Bolitar's office asking for help should have been a dream come true. Only this woman, Suzze T, is in tears - and eight months pregnant . . . Suzze's rock star husband has disappeared, and she fears the rumours questioning her baby's paternity have driven him away. For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn't hit closer to home. His own father is clinging precariously to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years ago has resurfaced - with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze's past, his family's mortality - and his own . . .
