Search - Promise Me (Myron Bolitar, Bk 8)

Wow -- Thought I had the plot all figured out and WHAM!! Harlan Coben slams another plot twist into you. Love this author!

*Starred Review* Coben, the reigning master of clockwork suspense, and winner of the trifecta of mystery-writing honors--the Edgar, the Agatha, and the Shamus--produces a fascinating hybrid thriller here. Coben began his career writing detective novels starring Myron Bolitar, an ex-Celtics basketball player turned entertainment agent. For the past six years, he has concentrated on stand-alone thrillers. Coben's novels are noted for their use of technology, both as weapons used against the innocent and as ways for victims to escape their tormentors, usually with a clock ticking ominously in the background. In Promise Me, Coben skillfully grafts this deadline suspense onto the career of his series hero, Bolitar. As in his stand-alones, the novel starts with a purely domestic situation--at a party in his home, attended by friends and their offspring, Bolitar overhears two teen girls talking about driving home drunk from parties. Stung by his own memory of a high-school friend who died in a car crash, Bolitar makes the girls promise to contact him if they ever need a lift or are in trouble. The call does come a few nights later. Myron drives the caller to a friend's house, but she ends up disappearing, and guilt-ridden Myron must use all his resources to try to find what happened. Coben's resurrection of Bolitar works superbly: the melding of high suspense and high technology with a somewhat battered, very canny, questing hero is sure to produce another major hit for the way-hot Coben.

Once again, Harlan Coban out does himself. This book was excelant from the beginning. Myron Bolitar is one of the great fiction charectors of our time.

I like the Myron Boitar books. They are fast moving and interesting. It is the kind of book I like to relax with.

Another great Myron Bolitar book! Can't wait for the next one!

This is one of the books that features the character Myron. Promise Me revolved around him and didn't have much suspense. I kept waiting for the book to grab me. It never did. It is full of tangled webs with Myron in the middle and mostly focuses on him playing detective. It seemed to keep going in circles and the ending was a let down.