ISBN: 9780385323697

The hardcover debut from the acclaimed Edgar Award and Shamus Award-winning author of Fade Away. Harlan Coben raises the stakes with this highly charged and unusually introspective novel.… Mehr…

The hardcover debut from the acclaimed Edgar Award and Shamus Award-winning author of Fade Away. Harlan Coben raises the stakes with this highly charged and unusually introspective novel. Still driven by his wit, Myron Bolitar takes on more than he bargained for when he agrees to protect the star of the new women's basketball league, first handing her his heart and then following her down a narrow trail of lies, lust and murder. Combining the best of Parker and Hiassen -- riveting suspense, quick wit and relentless energy -- Coben proves he's at the top of his game with this wholly original and totally inescapable novel.Myron Bolitar, sports agent and reluctant private eye, is falling into his darkest mystery yet. When Brenda Slaughter, the premier superstar of the Women's Basketball League, starts receiving bizarre death threats, Myron is called in to keep an eye on her and maybe pick up the unagented Slaughter for his own agency as part of the bargain. But no sooner is he dragging the past for suspects than the bodies begin to fall. First Brenda's own father, And while Myron is searching for clues, the police are looking to make a case against Brenda who, in no small way, has worked her way into Myron's heart.Desperate for answers, but afraid of the truth, Myron makes his way through a bizarre family history, where a mother disappeared inexplicably twenty years before, where a senator's wife plunged to her death from a third story balcony, and where a Media >, [PU: Doubleday]<