October 9, 2012

  • Fade Away

    The book I am reviewing in this post is  Fade Away by Harlan Coben which is an excellent thriller which I bought from a carboot sale. This book is part of the Myron Bolitar, the sports agent who does a bit of private detective and this book was released in 2000. Incidently Harlan was the first writer to win all 3 major thriller writing awards. In this story Myron has to search for someone who used to be a rival in his amateur basketball days. Eleven years ago Myron had his knee shattered in an incident with Bert Wesson on the basketball court after being signed to New Jersey Dragons which ended his career. Now he gets the chance to play temporarily for the Dragons in his rivals position as long as he turns sleuth and tries to find him. He isn't much use on court but does eventually find Greg. Greg it appears has murdered someone who was blackmailing him. He also apparently owes the mob gambling debts but this turns out to be Bert Wesson who is also blackmailing him although about something else. Greg's wife who is divorcing him and used to be myron's old flame has accused her husband of child abuse. To get even Greg had her filmed having sex with someone else. Also his wife has left incriminating evidence linking him to the murder he committed but she in turn is being blackmailed about it. Myron gets well paid and Bert gets his comeuppance the ending is quite satisfying and leaves a lot to the imagination which makes it quite effective.

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