One False Move (Myron Bolitar Mysteries)

Coben, Harlan

ISBN 10: 0385323697 / ISBN 13: 9780385323697

Published by Delacorte Press, 1998

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One False Move (Myron Bolitar Mysteries) by Harlan Coben. Signed by author on full title page. Signature only. Hardcover first edition, first printing published in 1998 by Delacorte Press. Seller Inventory # 005233

Bibliographic Details

Title: One False Move (Myron Bolitar Mysteries)

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Publication Date: 1998

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition

About this title

Synopsis:

An Edgar, Anthony, and Shamus award winner follows hot-headed sports agent Myron Bolitar as he tries to protect a star of the women's professional basketball league, an attractive athlete whose troubled past may claim both their lives.

Review:

Brenda Slaughter, the star player of the Women's Professional Basketball Association, is getting threatening phone calls. Norm Zuckerman, owner of the league, convinces sports agent Myron Bolitar to protect Brenda by promising to deliver her as Myron's next big client. Brenda, who claims she doesn't need protection, enlists Myron to find her missing father--the assumed source of the phone calls and Myron's childhood mentor. It looks like a simple family dispute--overprotective father goes off the deep end when daughter decides to go her own way--until Horace Slaughter shows up dead and the police name Brenda as the primary suspect. What unfolds is a 20-year-old scandal, a series of disturbing family secrets, and an unexpected, if not entirely believable, ending. One False Move leads the reader through the dirty underbelly of the sports world. It has a little bit of everything: all-star athletes, dirty cops, corrupt politicians, and hired killers. It's a whirlwind of a story that Coben pulls off seamlessly with quirky but realistic characters and pages full of great one-liners. One False Move is a compelling thriller that no mystery fan should miss. --Mara Friedman