Promise Me by
Harlan Coben
pbk out April 06
(Orion)
at £10.99
It began with a promise at 2.17am. When the phone rings on Myron Bolitar's nightstand at the
other end of the line is Aimee Biel - a frightened teenager who has called the one adult who had
promised to help her if she ever got into trouble. Stumbling from his Manhattan bed, he races down to
pick her up from a cold street corner and take her back to safety. Against his better judgment, she
persuades him to drop her at an unknown address in the suburbs and this is a mistake that he lives to
regret, for Aimee's final wave from a darkened porch is not the end of the story but is merely the
beginning.
After a six-year hiatus, award-winning author Harlan Coben has revived his most enduring
character, Myron Bolitar, and breathed fresh life into the sports agent- turned-detective with this slick,
fast paced thriller that is guaranteed to satisfy from the moment the novel is opened.
Everything that a Crime fiction reader could ever possibly want is within the pages of this book.
The dialogue is Connelly-esque in its tightness and holds such a natural rhythm that the reader becomes
a virtual eavesdropper. The descriptive prose has been so vividly drawn, it is as though we have been
invited to come along for the ride and so can "see" where we are and what is about to transpire. As for
the characters, good and bad alike, well, it's like meeting with old friends – or running into old enemies
– such are the feelings that are stirred
Harlan Coben has now written eight Myron Bolitar novels and this is as good a place to start as
any if you've not read any of the others. The blanks in the back-story are filled in with out being heavy
handed, whilst the peripheral characters have all been drawn with such attention to detail, the reader
wants to know what they have been up to in the interceding six years as much as they do about Myron.
This indeed is a welcome return of a well-defined hero and Harlan Coben can expect to roundly
applauded from all quarters for doing so at long last.
www.harlancoben.com
(
C. H
Chris High - Author Multi-media Promotion Service www.chrishigh.com)
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Promise Me by
Harlan Coben
