Harlan Coben

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Harlan Coben

The Final Detail

pbk 17 Feb 00

Drop Shot

Deal Breaker

One False Move

WebPage: http://www. harlancoben .com

About the Author

Bibliography

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (1999)

The Final Detail
The brand-new book from America's fastest rising crime star. Harlan Coben's new thriller opens with our hero, settled in a Caribbean idyll, sunning himself, drinking fruit cocktails and attempting to satisfy the carnal desires of a quite stunning brunette TV reporter. But all is not as well as you could rightfully expect. Myron is hiding... hiding from his own failures and his own friends. But then, he is forced back to face his old life, as his closest colleague and dearest friend is charged with murder. And the victim is one of his oldest clients ... Harlan Coben is the only person to have won all three major US crime awards - Edgar, Anthony and Shamus. He lives and works in New Jersey.
'Harlan Coben. He's smart, he's funny, and he has something to say' Michael Connelly
Praise for One False Move
'Good, old-fashioned, tender-hearted tough-guy stuff in a contemporroay setting' Sunday Telegraph
'Set in New Jersey, this engrossing thriller explores a theme popular in crime fiction: the inevitability of a bad act continuing to haunt the perpetrator… This is a tense, well written novel with some great wisecracks' The Sunday Times

Paperback - NEL (1999)

Drop Shot
The young woman was shot dead in cold blood, dropped outside the stadium in front of a stand selling Moet for $7.50 a glass. Once she had ruled the tennis world, now she was just another stain on a pavement.
At that moment in time, inside the venue, another precocious player is carving his way to the top, straight from the ghetto and dazzling the pundits with his power and raw talent.
When Myron Bolitar, sports agent to the not-quite-but-soon-will-be stars, gets involved he realises that there is a link between these parallel lives, and very soon finds himself embroiled with a dirty U.S. senator, a jealous mother, and the mob ... way, way over his head.

Paperback - NEL (1999)

Deal Breaker
Myron Bolitar had pretty much everything in life: good looks, sporting success, and a certain self-deprecating charm. Then - during a warm-up game for his first season in the NBA - his knee was busted, and with it his hopes for glorious (and lucrative) stardom.
Now, years later, sports agent Bolitar is again poised on the cusp of real success with his first big-time client, Christian Steele, rookie quarterback. But when Steele's, supposedly dead, ex-girlfriend decides to make a reappearance within the pages of a men's magazine, Myron, along with his old friend, the engagingly psychotic Windsor Lockwood III, is plunged into a baffling mystery of sex and blackmail.
'At last a British publisher has given British readers the chance to discover something every US mystery fan already knows - that Harlan Coben is one of the most entertaining and intriguing crime writers around' Val McDermid

Paperback - NEL (1999)

First British Edition Hodder & Stoughton (1998)

One False Move
See Review by Jay Russell - one of the greatest talents the horror industry has produced for some time… (Black Tears)
One False Move stars the unlikely and oddly named hero, Myron Bolitar. He's a hot-headed, tender-hearted sports agent with a biting wit and a penchant for falling into jobs he doesn't want. Think of him as more Jerry Maguire than Eric Hall.
Myron is not overly upset when he gets tricked into 'bodyguard' duties for the hottest female basketball star around, Brenda Slaughter. Not only is she intoxicatingly gorgeous, talented, funny and single, she's also between agents. Myron figures it's an easy gig and maybe if he performs this little favour he could profit big time.
It's not all fun and games, though. Brenda's father has disappeared and the Mob have been making offers she may not be able to refuse for much longer. There are potent forces at work. Powerful men protect their dirty secrets well, and Myron and his old friend the smooth, sophisticated Windsor Lockwood III are dragged along a twisting trail of love, lies and murder, where one false move could be deadly.
'One False Move has it all: wonderful characters… nail-biting suspense and Harlan Coben's wicked humor' Susan Isaacs
'Myron Bolithar is one of the most engaging heroes in mystery fiction - hopelessly confused in the affairs of the heart, fully vulnerable yet courageous, and flatout hilarious. One False Move... has more twists than a carton of corkscrews and a stunning shock denouement... a blast from start to finish' Dennis Lehane
'One False Move marks the maturing of an extraordinary talent in crime fiction. In this rich and poignant novel, Myron Bolitar becomes a complex and memorable character, and Harlan Coben reaches a new level of excellence' Sharyn McCrumb
'Could Myron, who pushes his wise-cracking charm hard, be any more tough and adorable? lt'll be a pleasure waiting for the next instalment to find out' Kirkus Reviews
'...a stylish and successful package' Publishers Weekly
'The fast paced plot spins the reader in a completely different direction than she expects to go. Myron is gallant, likeable and delightfully original' L.A. Times

About The Author
Harlan Cobenhas had a varied career. After graduating from College as a political science major, he worked in the travel industry. He stopped when he realised that he wasn't meant to, well, work. He has now written five Myron Bolitar novels; Deal Breaker, Dropshot, Fade Away, Back Spin and One False Move. He was born, raised, and lives in New Jersey with his paediatrician wife Anne and two young children, Charlotte and Benjamin.
Since his critically-acclaimed Myron Bolitar series debuted in 1995, Harlan Coben has won the Mystery Writers of America's Edgar Allan Poe Award for the Best Paperback Original, the Anthony Award at the World Mystery Conference, and the Shamus Award by the Private Eye Writers of America. More recently, Publishers Weekly picked One False Moveas one of their Best of 1998 (only nine crime novels from an estimated 1490 were chosen).

Bibliography
N.B. dates and publishers in dark red indicate British First Editions. Dates and publishers in black indicate recent reprints.

The Final Detail (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999) NEL Pbk Feb 00 (Myron Bolitar)

Drop Shot (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999) NEL Pbk Aug 99 (Myron Bolitar)

Deal Breaker (Hodder & Stoughton, 1999) NEL Pbk Aug 99 (Myron Bolitar)

One False Move (Hodder & Stoughton, 1998) NEL Pbk Feb 99 (Myron Bolitar)

Back Spin NEL Pbk Feb 00 (Myron Bolitar)

Fade Away NEL Pbk Feb 00 (Myron Bolitar)

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