Harlan Coben gave his hard boiled action series character, Myron Bolitar, the most unlikely profession: sports agent. That said, if you’re one of his athletic clients and in trouble, Myron and his MB Associates employees, along with his rich, psychopath friend Win, will do all they can to bail you out. Coben’s books featuring Myron Bolitar have earned a legion of fans, including former president Clinton, and now Myron is back in Coben’s latest, Live Wire.
The client in Live Wire is Suzze T, a retired tennis star whose rock guitarist husband goes missing when she’s eight months pregnant. Myron’s search for the missing husband leads him to a club where he spots his own estranged brother’s wife with another man. He learns that what he was looking for and what he has found are tied together by drugs, organized crime, and an old scandal tied to a reclusive rock star.
What makes Live Wire work is Coben’s deft balance of the kind of fun, well paced and keenly plotted series mystery we’ve come to expect from him, and a true pathos. In order to piece together the mystery, Myron has to deal with the emotions and past he has with his brother. In passages with Myron’s parents, Coben deals honestly with watching one’s parents age. There is even a great meditation on winning and success.
And of course there’s the classic laugh-out-loud banter between Myron and Win, some great fights and close calls, and a plot that doesn’t stop twisting until the last page. So join us, Tuesday, March 29TH, 7PM as this master story teller talks about and signs one of his best.
—– Scott Montgomery, heart and brains of MysteryPeople, BookPeople’s mystery-bookstore-within-a-bookstore
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Must be an enjoyable read Live Wire (Myron Bolitar) by Harlan Coben. loved the way you wrote it. I find your review very genuine and orignal, this book is going in by “to read” list.
Was there a mistake at the end? Myron finds out Mickey was named for him by looking at Mickey’s passport. But the passport he saw at Kitty’s that told him Brad hadn’t left the country was Brad’s passport. What did I miss?