About the Author

Harlan Coben is the winner of the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony awards. His critically acclaimed novels have been published in thirty-three languages around the world and have been number one bestsellers in more than half a dozen countries. In addition to the Myron Bolitar series (Deal Breaker, Drop Shot, Fade Away, Back Spin, One False Move, The Final Detail, Darkest Fear, and the upcoming "Promise Me"), he is also the author of Tell No One, Gone for Good, "The Innocent, The Woods, " and "Hold Tight."

Reviews

"A slam dunk ... You race to turn the pages ... both suspenseful and often surprisingly funny."--"People"

"Terrific."--"Boston Globe"

"A winner."--"Orlando Sentinel"

"Fast-paced ... layered with both tenderness and fun ... Coben [is] a gifted storyteller."--"Denver Post"

" A slam dunk ... You race to turn the pages ... both suspenseful and often surprisingly funny." -- "People"
" Terrific." -- "Boston Globe"
" A winner." -- "Orlando Sentinel"
" Fast-paced ... layered with both tenderness and fun ... Coben [is] a gifted storyteller." -- "Denver Post"

Book seven in Coben's wonderfully rich series (after 1999's The Final Detail), which features sports agent Myron Bolitar, former basketball player and totally believable human being, is all about fathers, sons and the intricate and often painful chains that link them together. Myron, who has just moved out of his parents' house at the age of 34, is worried about his father's health after a heart attack, but it's hard for either of them to talk about the older man's condition. Myron tends to have long relationships with women that end in tears. ("You're in your mid-thirties, single, sensitive, and you like show tunes," says his current lover, a troubled television star. "If you were a better dresser, I'd say you were gay.") Emily, his college girlfriend from Duke who dumped him for a more successful basketball rival, re-enters the picture to tell him that her critically ill 13-year-old son needs a bone marrow transplant, but the only suitable registered donor has disappeared. Can Myron find him? And, by the way--Myron is the boy's real father. The search takes Myron deep into some decades-old unsolved crimes involving another father and son--a sadistic deranged killer and a conflicted newspaper columnist. Myron's deadly preppy friend, Win, is on hand to supply his own frightening brand of violence, and the gorgeous Esperanza Diaz, the former wrestler who's now a full partner in MB SportsReps, supplies wisdom as well as glamour. But the heart of the novel is, as always, the fallible but infinitely appealing, accessible figure of Myron Bolitar--a modern Don Quixote complete with knee brace and cell phone, ready to take on the world's problems. (June) Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

Manhattan sports agent Myron Bolitar is shocked when his former college lover informs him he is the father of her 13-year-old son, who has anemia. But the girlfriend--now inimically divorced from her husband--only uses that fact to convince him to locate the boy's bone-marrow donor, who has disappeared. Bolitar's subsequent quest pits him against a wealthy, publicity-shy, and bitterly scrapping family with hitherto secret connections to a crazed kidnapper. Crisp, focused prose, a wisecracking but gallant hero, and a busy plot make this essential for most collections. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.

"A slam dunk ... You race to turn the pages ... both suspenseful and often surprisingly funny."--"People"

"Terrific."--"Boston Globe"

"A winner."--"Orlando Sentinel"

"Fast-paced ... layered with both tenderness and fun ... Coben [is] a gifted storyteller."--"Denver Post"
" A slam dunk ... You race to turn the pages ... both suspenseful and often surprisingly funny." -- "People"
" Terrific." -- "Boston Globe"
" A winner." -- "Orlando Sentinel"
" Fast-paced ... layered with both tenderness and fun ... Coben [is] a gifted storyteller." -- "Denver Post"