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Awesome book by one of my favorite authors. This is part of the Myron Bolitar series. Wonderful characters!

" Promise Me" was my introduction to Myron Bolitar and I feel like I jumped in midstream. I am assuming the characters have been more fully developed in previous works because they seem to arrive with a lot of history I was unaware of. As usual with Mr. Coben the plot is tightly woven with some interesting plot twists. A good, mindless read.

Myron Bolitar is back and better than ever.Suspenseful til the end and of course written with Mr. Coben's humourous style and witticism.VERY GOOD!!!

Coben's rich hook-and-twist tale will grab you on the first page and hold you (with shock) until the last as the main character, Myron, tries desperately to save a young girl's life.

Myron Bolitar is determined to keep his friends children safe, so he makes two neighborhood girls a promise, if you get in a bind and are afraid to call your parents they must call him.
Several nights later calls him to take her to her friends home. The next day the parents discover that their daughter is missing. A promise giving with good intention has gone dangerous wrong.
Now, Myron must find her if thre is any hope of saving life.

This Harlan Coben is one of his Myron Bolitar series. Myron, an ex-jock who was injured and lost out on his pro basketball career, has become an agent, and seems to do as much sleuthing as anything else (which can also include a fair amount of romance). This fascinating story as usual includes family (how about that, a hunk who loves his mother and father and actually has a relationship with them), as well as other miscellaneous neighborhood types, including a couple of young girls he wants to keep safe. Good read.

This one was a page-turner. I couldn't put it down til I finished it.

Another wonderful book by this master of his craft:-)
Plot is full of twists and turns that keep you guessing!

Wonderful book! So glad Myron is back!!!

Not one of his more interesting ones (in fact, the least compelling of all of the ones that I read), maybe because there isn't the hint of blood oozing from every page.

Myron Bolitar probably won't make any promises to anyone again soon. When he gave his promise to two young girls it was made out of the moment and impulsive. He didn't know then that it would become a nightmare. 3 weeks after he made the girls promise to give him a call whenever they are in trouble he receives a call in the middle of the night. Aimee Biel, daugther of his long-term friend Claire Biel, calls him and makes him promise to not tell her parents about it. She wants him to pick her up and drive her back to her friends house, only this house isn't her friends house. Myron smells the whole situation is fishy but he trusts Aimee when she leaves the car and enters the front garden through the gate. It doesn't take long until he hears she never was at her friends house and she didn't come back home the next day.
Then there is Katie Rochester who vanished shortly before. They both went to the same High School and Katie's last sign was a withdrawal from an ATM machine. Funnily enough Aimee used the same ATM machine shortly before she made her call to Myron.

Katie is considered a runaway but things don't add up with Aimee's disappearance. Katie has been seen once since her parents notified authorities about her 18-year old daugther's disappearance. Aimee's 18, too, but the investigating police officers have a hard time to believe her to be a runaway, too.

What happened to the girls ? Where did they go and what made them supposedly run away ?

Myron promises Claire to get her daugther back and the clocks ticking. With more then one subject Myron has to figure out what Aimee had to do with two teachers and how his ex-boyfriends father comes into the game.
In the end nothing is like it seems but everything is connected.

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Book 8 of the Myron Bolitar series and the first book by Harlan Coben I've ever read. I enjoyed reading it even if I didn't know the characters and their history. I liked how everything was easily connected to each other but still a surprise and unexpected for the reader. I don't know what happened to Myron or his friend Win in the past but I will definitely know what's going to happen in the future. :-)

It has been 6 years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In 6 years he hasn't thrown a punch. He hasn't held, much less fired a gun. He hasn't called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knows, to back him up or get him out of trouble.
All that is about to change...because of a promise.
The school year is about over. Anxious families await word of college acceptances. In these last pressure cooker months of high school, some kids will make the all-too-common and all-too-dangerous mistake of drinking and driving. But Myron is determined to help keep his friends' children safe, so he makes two neighborhood girls promise him: if they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they must call him.
Several nights later, the call comes at 2:00 a.m., and true to his word, Myron picks up one of the girls in midtown Manhattan and drives her to a quiet cul-de-sac in New Jersey where she says her friend lives.
The next dday, the girl's parents discover that their daughter is missing. And that Myron was the last person to see her. Desperate to fullfill a well intentioned promise turned nightmarishly wrong, Myron races to find her before she's gone forever. But his past will not be buried so easily-for trouble has always stalked him, and his loved ones often suffer. Now Myron must decide once and for all who he is and what he will stand up for if he is to have any hope of saving a young girl's life.

Very interesting, the ending isn't what you would think!

Promise Me is another Harlan Coben jewel! Twists and turns--go on and on. You'll stay up late with this one!

reading it now. very good so far, will be done with it soon

As usual, Coben gives a great thriller/mystery to his readers!

Another great one!

I just love his books and this was no expection. He is one of the authors I read religiously and he gets me every time.

I couldn't out it down!