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Myron Bolitar #6
The Final Detail
'Outstanding ... if you read only one American novel this year make sure that it is this one' SUNDAY EXPRESSHelping a friend may turn out to be deadly serious... A terrific Myron Bolitar novel from the SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author of THE STRANGERMyron screwed up. His job was to protect someone. He fell in love with that someone and then she died. End of story. So he's dropped out, left, run away to the Caribbean to escape his guilt. But now everything that he left behind has come back to haunt him. A friend is in trouble, murder trouble. The victim? One of his own clients. In order to help his friend, Myron must battle for her freedom - against her own wishes...
344 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1999
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Harlan Coben
194 books44.7k followersHarlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries with seventy-five million books in print worldwide.
His books have earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many have been developed into Netflix Original Drama series, including his adaptations of The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good and The Woods. His most recent adaptation for Netflix, Stay Close, premiered on December 31, 2021 and stars Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage.
His books have earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many have been developed into Netflix Original Drama series, including his adaptations of The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good and The Woods. His most recent adaptation for Netflix, Stay Close, premiered on December 31, 2021 and stars Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage.
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March 5, 2018
I bought this book on iTunes while camping as I couldn’t wait till I got home to read it. I did try the library. I spent $13 on it!
Unfortunately this review is in the making one and a half months after the event as I was camping at the time. These are more my thoughts, as I have this book and #7 to review too long after reading.
Myron is such a complex character, and in this instalment we learn so much more about him. Being my favourite fictional character, I am very happy about this. Jessica was always a little 'off' in my opinion, and I was not surprised to see Myron fall for another so openly, and devastated for him that this also, was not meant to be.
Myron does a complete flip to what one would expect of him and runs away, spending time with yet another unexpected party. Win is left holding the fort as the business and Esperenza also seem to be falling apart. Always Harlan Coben's characters are maddeningly likable and off the wall and this was a sense of amusement of course. Big Cyndi is cool, as are they all. I love how Win found Myron after his disappearance and asked no questions - well he never needs to really, they know each other so well. Myron deserves a happy ending, and I look forward to finding out how he goes.
.. but rolling was good. Myron liked to roll.
"You think the police are going to give a rat's ass?" "Not even one cheek"
He's such a superstar.
Unfortunately this review is in the making one and a half months after the event as I was camping at the time. These are more my thoughts, as I have this book and #7 to review too long after reading.
Myron is such a complex character, and in this instalment we learn so much more about him. Being my favourite fictional character, I am very happy about this. Jessica was always a little 'off' in my opinion, and I was not surprised to see Myron fall for another so openly, and devastated for him that this also, was not meant to be.
Myron does a complete flip to what one would expect of him and runs away, spending time with yet another unexpected party. Win is left holding the fort as the business and Esperenza also seem to be falling apart. Always Harlan Coben's characters are maddeningly likable and off the wall and this was a sense of amusement of course. Big Cyndi is cool, as are they all. I love how Win found Myron after his disappearance and asked no questions - well he never needs to really, they know each other so well. Myron deserves a happy ending, and I look forward to finding out how he goes.
.. but rolling was good. Myron liked to roll.
"You think the police are going to give a rat's ass?" "Not even one cheek"
He's such a superstar.
May 10, 2018
Bolitar is back, and this time it is baseball!
As always, a great combination of mystery and sarcastic humor. As the books are never all that long, Coben gives me a quick, fun reading fix every time I come back to the adventures of Myron and Win. If you are a fan of funny mystery series with outlandish characters and great twists, this is the series for you!
One thing about Coben, too, is that his mysteries are always so shocking in their revelation, you cannot discuss too much without spoilers. So, I will just say that this is a great entry in the series. If you liked the previous novels in the series, you will like this. If you like sports combined with your mystery, you must check the Bolitar series out! No, really, do it now!
Do not pass GO!
Do not collect $200!
As always, a great combination of mystery and sarcastic humor. As the books are never all that long, Coben gives me a quick, fun reading fix every time I come back to the adventures of Myron and Win. If you are a fan of funny mystery series with outlandish characters and great twists, this is the series for you!
One thing about Coben, too, is that his mysteries are always so shocking in their revelation, you cannot discuss too much without spoilers. So, I will just say that this is a great entry in the series. If you liked the previous novels in the series, you will like this. If you like sports combined with your mystery, you must check the Bolitar series out! No, really, do it now!
Do not pass GO!
Do not collect $200!
June 19, 2022
“But bosoms do funny things to people.”
“Men … become brain-dead. It’s as if the nipples shoot out like two grapefruit spoons, dig into their frontal lobe, and scrape away all cognitive thought.”
Myron Bolitar is an aging wannabe professional basketball player whose pro career was destroyed by a knee injury before that career even had a real chance to get started. So he settled on the career of sports management and agency but he seems to be a perennial magnet for criminal shenanigans, most notably murder. Given that it’s typical thriller brain candy, THE FINAL DETAIL’s plot line is hardly material. That said, the problem is that Myron’s friend and business partner, Esperanza Diaz, has been charged with the murder of one of their clients. And that, of course, is definitely a problem. Aside from the obvious, the likelihood is that such a scandal will simply crush their livelihood and business forever. Myron is going to clear Diaz by whatever means it takes, fair or foul.
Aside from the obvious mystery and thriller components of THE FINAL DETAIL, Harlan Coben has gifted his protagonists, Myron Bolitar and his über-wealthy but definitely noir compatriot Windsor Horne Lockwood III, with the gift of wise-cracking repartee. Despite the fact that the smart-ass dialogue never seems to run dry, Coben seems to have mastered the ability to keep it under control and prevent it from going stale, going over the top, or simply becoming tiresome. Move over Spenser, Elvis Cole, and John Corey – you need to share some smart-aleck bench space with newcomer Myron Bolitar.
Perhaps part of the reason that Bolitar’s wit and wise-cracking never run to stale is because Coben has often couched Bolitar’s lines in intelligent insights on a variety of issues facing today’s society – sexism and misogyny, for example, as per the above quotation. Or how about this one on the thin line that separates a professional athlete’s fame, celebrity, and wealth from the rest of the world?
“ … with athletes, you can see your alternate life a little too clearly. You have the ability to throw the ball just a little faster than the next guy, you end up a god rather than the most pitiful of mortals. You get the girls, the fame, the big house, the money instead of the rats, the dull anonymity, the crummy apartment, the menial job. You get to go on TV and offer life insights. People want to be near you and hear you speak and touch the hem of your cloak. Just because you can hurl the rawhide with great velocity or put an orange ball in a metallic circle … You are special. Nuts when you think about it.”
(And the USA is about to put the truth to that by allowing a certifiable moron like Herschel Walker to actually run for public office. But I digress)
Not memorable but definitely enjoyable and a simple novel to recommend.
Paul Weiss
“Men … become brain-dead. It’s as if the nipples shoot out like two grapefruit spoons, dig into their frontal lobe, and scrape away all cognitive thought.”
Myron Bolitar is an aging wannabe professional basketball player whose pro career was destroyed by a knee injury before that career even had a real chance to get started. So he settled on the career of sports management and agency but he seems to be a perennial magnet for criminal shenanigans, most notably murder. Given that it’s typical thriller brain candy, THE FINAL DETAIL’s plot line is hardly material. That said, the problem is that Myron’s friend and business partner, Esperanza Diaz, has been charged with the murder of one of their clients. And that, of course, is definitely a problem. Aside from the obvious, the likelihood is that such a scandal will simply crush their livelihood and business forever. Myron is going to clear Diaz by whatever means it takes, fair or foul.
Aside from the obvious mystery and thriller components of THE FINAL DETAIL, Harlan Coben has gifted his protagonists, Myron Bolitar and his über-wealthy but definitely noir compatriot Windsor Horne Lockwood III, with the gift of wise-cracking repartee. Despite the fact that the smart-ass dialogue never seems to run dry, Coben seems to have mastered the ability to keep it under control and prevent it from going stale, going over the top, or simply becoming tiresome. Move over Spenser, Elvis Cole, and John Corey – you need to share some smart-aleck bench space with newcomer Myron Bolitar.
Perhaps part of the reason that Bolitar’s wit and wise-cracking never run to stale is because Coben has often couched Bolitar’s lines in intelligent insights on a variety of issues facing today’s society – sexism and misogyny, for example, as per the above quotation. Or how about this one on the thin line that separates a professional athlete’s fame, celebrity, and wealth from the rest of the world?
“ … with athletes, you can see your alternate life a little too clearly. You have the ability to throw the ball just a little faster than the next guy, you end up a god rather than the most pitiful of mortals. You get the girls, the fame, the big house, the money instead of the rats, the dull anonymity, the crummy apartment, the menial job. You get to go on TV and offer life insights. People want to be near you and hear you speak and touch the hem of your cloak. Just because you can hurl the rawhide with great velocity or put an orange ball in a metallic circle … You are special. Nuts when you think about it.”
(And the USA is about to put the truth to that by allowing a certifiable moron like Herschel Walker to actually run for public office. But I digress)
Not memorable but definitely enjoyable and a simple novel to recommend.
Paul Weiss
October 2, 2015
Number 6 in the series and still going well! Poor Myron is in a bad place in this one and he has to fight back as his life unravels around him. Of course the amazing Win is there to help him. The mystery in this one is good. I absolutely failed to guess whodunnit largely because of all the false leads along the way. I also read the whole thing in one day which always indicates a very good book!
September 17, 2016
The Final Detail by Harlan Coben is a 1999 Island Books publication.
This sixth installment picks up pretty much where the last book left off, with Myron nursing a broken heart and spirit, and finding comfort on a Caribbean Island. But, when Win locates him and shows up in person, Myron knows something terrible has happened. Sure enough, Esperanza has been arrested for the murder of one their clients, and needs Myron’s help, even though she doesn’t want it.
By now I’ve begun to recognize the formula Mr. Coben uses in this series, but it never fails to suck me in. The dire circumstances Esperanza faces immediately grabbed my attention, and from there, Coben took me on a wild, and often hilarious journey, before the tone turns very serious, as all the pieces begin to click into place.
Naturally, there are emotional highs and lows, and some shocking twists along the way, and ends with the usual moral conundrum for Myron, who will close the case with more weighing on his conscience, adding to his emotional war wounds, but creating a deeper bond between him and the reader.
This is another entertaining installment in the Bolitar series, and I’m really having a lot of fun reading through the series.
4 stars
This sixth installment picks up pretty much where the last book left off, with Myron nursing a broken heart and spirit, and finding comfort on a Caribbean Island. But, when Win locates him and shows up in person, Myron knows something terrible has happened. Sure enough, Esperanza has been arrested for the murder of one their clients, and needs Myron’s help, even though she doesn’t want it.
By now I’ve begun to recognize the formula Mr. Coben uses in this series, but it never fails to suck me in. The dire circumstances Esperanza faces immediately grabbed my attention, and from there, Coben took me on a wild, and often hilarious journey, before the tone turns very serious, as all the pieces begin to click into place.
Naturally, there are emotional highs and lows, and some shocking twists along the way, and ends with the usual moral conundrum for Myron, who will close the case with more weighing on his conscience, adding to his emotional war wounds, but creating a deeper bond between him and the reader.
This is another entertaining installment in the Bolitar series, and I’m really having a lot of fun reading through the series.
4 stars
October 31, 2021
Loving this series
February 26, 2013
'The Final Detail' will keep you awake at nights and wake you up early in the mornings. It will make you push out people from your house so you can be alone and just immerse yourself deep into the book without any interruptions. Experience says so.
The story goes as such: Myron has run away with Terese to some unknown place and nobody knows where, not even his best friends Win and Esperanza. Sometime soon, Win arrives (even though he really didn't know where Myron was, he somehow knew - go wonder!)and lets Myron know of the developments back home during his runaway stint. Esperanza, now his business partner, is arrested for the murder of Clu Haid. Clu is their client, fast on the road of self-destruction with drugs and women. There's two hundred thousand dollars missing from his account. There is a murder weapon and blood found in Myron and Esperanza's office and company car. Myron wants to do everything...anything...to help Esperanza but she strictly tells him to buzz off. As we all know Myron, this just makes him more adamant in staying on the case.
The story on the surface goes like this. But as you read the book, it takes you far into past and brings out connections that you could have never imagined. Very cleverly executed, each chapter has a twist, leaving you wanting more.
The characters are simply fascinating. Clu Haid is not alive in the book, and yet you know his character completely. Esperanza is ever so lovable. So dignified is she even in the prison orange jumpsuit. As I said - lovable. There's Clu Haid's wife Bonnie, there's Sophie Mayor, there's Frank Ache Jr. - all wonderfully sketched characters.
There's Cyndi. She likes to be called Big Cyndi. And boy-oh-boy, is she big! The paragraphs that Harlan Coben spends describing her physique, her looks, her clothes, her mannerisms are just so funny and totally worth it! It's a challenge to not laugh when it comes to Myron's internal dialogues when around Big Cyndi.
Hester Crimstein makes an appearance yet again. Snappy as she always is, you either hate her for being arrogant or you just love her for being intimidatingly clever.
There's Myron's parents, Ellen and Al. They are funny. Smart. Intelligent. Wise. Witty. A pain in Myron's ass. Well, they are Myron's parents. Period.
And then there's Myron and Win. As Espranza puts it "For you Myron, Win is a cold dose of reality, and Win, on the other hand, seems to view you as his humanity." One is not complete without the other. Both question the other's way of life but never judge. Myron can be such a tender-heart sometimes, that you need a Win to balance him. And Win can be so dark, that you need a Myron to show you hope.
When Coben keeps referring to Myron, Win and Esperanza as 'his best friend' and 'her best friend', it leaves such a childish impact - considering they are 30-something adults. But when you see the friendship and the innocence and the unconditional love for each other, you just end up wishing you too had such a 'best friend'.
The one chapter between Myron and his dad is very beautiful.
Somewhere in the book, Myron has one whole chapter dedicated to the thrills of baseball. I have no inclination towards baseball, but the passion with which the chapter is written, now makes me wonder.
Sophie Mayor and Myron's conversation about hunting is thought-provoking.
Myron and Thrill's discussion on sexuality at Take A Guess deserves an applause.
The last 20 pages left me speechless. Such deep thoughts. Such introspection. Degrees of guilt. Degrees of innocence. Friendship. Love. Belongingness. These last twenty pages have overpowered the first 300-something pages of excellent writing.
I am totally in awe of Harlan Coben for creating characters that grow so close to you as if you have known them forever and whatever they do or feel, affects you too.
The story goes as such: Myron has run away with Terese to some unknown place and nobody knows where, not even his best friends Win and Esperanza. Sometime soon, Win arrives (even though he really didn't know where Myron was, he somehow knew - go wonder!)and lets Myron know of the developments back home during his runaway stint. Esperanza, now his business partner, is arrested for the murder of Clu Haid. Clu is their client, fast on the road of self-destruction with drugs and women. There's two hundred thousand dollars missing from his account. There is a murder weapon and blood found in Myron and Esperanza's office and company car. Myron wants to do everything...anything...to help Esperanza but she strictly tells him to buzz off. As we all know Myron, this just makes him more adamant in staying on the case.
The story on the surface goes like this. But as you read the book, it takes you far into past and brings out connections that you could have never imagined. Very cleverly executed, each chapter has a twist, leaving you wanting more.
The characters are simply fascinating. Clu Haid is not alive in the book, and yet you know his character completely. Esperanza is ever so lovable. So dignified is she even in the prison orange jumpsuit. As I said - lovable. There's Clu Haid's wife Bonnie, there's Sophie Mayor, there's Frank Ache Jr. - all wonderfully sketched characters.
There's Cyndi. She likes to be called Big Cyndi. And boy-oh-boy, is she big! The paragraphs that Harlan Coben spends describing her physique, her looks, her clothes, her mannerisms are just so funny and totally worth it! It's a challenge to not laugh when it comes to Myron's internal dialogues when around Big Cyndi.
Hester Crimstein makes an appearance yet again. Snappy as she always is, you either hate her for being arrogant or you just love her for being intimidatingly clever.
There's Myron's parents, Ellen and Al. They are funny. Smart. Intelligent. Wise. Witty. A pain in Myron's ass. Well, they are Myron's parents. Period.
And then there's Myron and Win. As Espranza puts it "For you Myron, Win is a cold dose of reality, and Win, on the other hand, seems to view you as his humanity." One is not complete without the other. Both question the other's way of life but never judge. Myron can be such a tender-heart sometimes, that you need a Win to balance him. And Win can be so dark, that you need a Myron to show you hope.
When Coben keeps referring to Myron, Win and Esperanza as 'his best friend' and 'her best friend', it leaves such a childish impact - considering they are 30-something adults. But when you see the friendship and the innocence and the unconditional love for each other, you just end up wishing you too had such a 'best friend'.
The one chapter between Myron and his dad is very beautiful.
Somewhere in the book, Myron has one whole chapter dedicated to the thrills of baseball. I have no inclination towards baseball, but the passion with which the chapter is written, now makes me wonder.
Sophie Mayor and Myron's conversation about hunting is thought-provoking.
Myron and Thrill's discussion on sexuality at Take A Guess deserves an applause.
The last 20 pages left me speechless. Such deep thoughts. Such introspection. Degrees of guilt. Degrees of innocence. Friendship. Love. Belongingness. These last twenty pages have overpowered the first 300-something pages of excellent writing.
I am totally in awe of Harlan Coben for creating characters that grow so close to you as if you have known them forever and whatever they do or feel, affects you too.
August 23, 2017
I love Myron!!! A 4 star book but adding another star 'just because' I hope this series never ends!!
August 21, 2019
This was a very twisty tale, perhaps a bit too much so. Still, I really liked it. The characters were well drawn enough that even if I hadn't read previous books in the series, I wouldn't have had an issue & they're the main reason to read these. Myron & company are a great bunch. Very human & always getting into trouble. Highly recommended.
May 12, 2023
4 Stars
A well-known baseball player is murdered and Myrons secretary is arrested.
Myron knows she didn't do it, so he sets out to find the real culprit.
There's a lot more going on than Myron even thought.
Love Myron Bolitar and his sidekick Win.
A well-known baseball player is murdered and Myrons secretary is arrested.
Myron knows she didn't do it, so he sets out to find the real culprit.
There's a lot more going on than Myron even thought.
Love Myron Bolitar and his sidekick Win.
December 7, 2025
This is the 6th book in the Myron Bolitar series and I am really enjoying them. They do tie together, but they can be read out of order as the mysteries in each one can stand alone. That being said, it felt like a lot happened in the book before this and reading that first may be easier. Myron had left without telling anyone where he was and Win still finds him when his good friend Esperanza is in trouble. Myron comes back but as he investigates he finds more than he could have ever expected to. This one was twisty, the ending was a little weak but overall I enjoyed the story a lot.
July 13, 2021
Yet again I find myself randomly working my way through a crime fiction series. After book 1 I decided this one wasn’t for me but then, much later, I grabbed a mid-series audiobook from the paltry selection on offer at my local library and really enjoyed it. This book is a little further on still and some references to past adventures and relationships passed me by but, in truth, this proved to be only a minor irritation. For those yet to dip into this series (are there any crime fiction fans left who haven’t?) the front man, Myron Bolitar, is a tall good looking ex-basketball star whose professional career was ended through injury before it began. He’s now a sports agent but he also dabbles in a bit of investigative work, backed up by his friend and on-call thug Windsor ‘Win’ Horne Lockwood III.
Myron is enjoying a long beach holiday through which he is attempting to get over the death of a close friend when he is pulled back to New York by Win. It seems that Myron’s business partner, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of one of their clients. Myron has no doubt that Esperanza didn’t do it, but there’s a fair chunk of evidence stacking up against her and what makes it worse is that she’s lawyered up and refusing to talk to anyone, Myron included. What exactly is going on here?
I think the main fun with this series is to be had in the interplay between the two main characters and also in Myron’s conversations with just about everyone. I truly laughed a lot listening to this one. The mystery itself isn’t bad either, with a convoluted story involving a transsexual nightclub, the ongoing rivalry with a another sports agent business run by a family of hoods and a second mystery involving the disappearance of a baseball team owner’s daughter.
It’s light and amusing and Coben has created a couple of splendid characters in Myron and Win. I know that I will meet up with them again, probably some time soon.
Myron is enjoying a long beach holiday through which he is attempting to get over the death of a close friend when he is pulled back to New York by Win. It seems that Myron’s business partner, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of one of their clients. Myron has no doubt that Esperanza didn’t do it, but there’s a fair chunk of evidence stacking up against her and what makes it worse is that she’s lawyered up and refusing to talk to anyone, Myron included. What exactly is going on here?
I think the main fun with this series is to be had in the interplay between the two main characters and also in Myron’s conversations with just about everyone. I truly laughed a lot listening to this one. The mystery itself isn’t bad either, with a convoluted story involving a transsexual nightclub, the ongoing rivalry with a another sports agent business run by a family of hoods and a second mystery involving the disappearance of a baseball team owner’s daughter.
It’s light and amusing and Coben has created a couple of splendid characters in Myron and Win. I know that I will meet up with them again, probably some time soon.
November 18, 2016
Here is a series I discovered through the people I have encountered on this particular website, who sang their indivdual praise over the Myron Bolitar series. Which in itself is good enough reason to purchase some of the books and have a read.
Myron lay sprawled next to a knee-knockingly gorgeous brunette clad only in a Class-B-felony bikini, a tropical drink sans umbrella in one hand, the aqua clear Caribbean water lapping at his feet, the sand a dazzling white powder, the sky a pure blue that could only be God's blank canvas, the sun as something and rich as a Swedish masseur with a snifter of cognac, and he was intensely miserable
The sports agent Myron Bolitar has left his agency in the capable hands of his now partner Esperanza and has run of with a lovely news presenter with an amazing derriere to some remote Caribbean isle where they enjoy themselves with sex and beach. Myron has run away after what happened in the last book, After three weeks of their sun filled fling Win comes to get Myron. Vacation is over as his partner Esperanza has been arrested for the murder of one of his clients.
When he returns he is told very solidly that he cannot contact his business partner / good personal friend and that she has requested this. All the evidence seems to points towards her as Myron did leave town for so many weeks. It is up to Myron and Win to untangle the murder and all its traces that make seemingly no sense at all. It also means that Myron has to find out why the client who a friend of his since college has been killed and find the motive for his murder. It also means that some secrets will come to the light which were best put away. We will learn what grief can make people do. We will learn that some of the less hetero cultures have some impressive muscle that know how to do this. And once again F.J. tries to buy the sports agency when he is not busy stealing clients.
A decent mystery with an ambiguous ending once again, one that will make grown ups ponder about right and wrong. Well written and great dialogue makes this a pleasure to read.
Myron lay sprawled next to a knee-knockingly gorgeous brunette clad only in a Class-B-felony bikini, a tropical drink sans umbrella in one hand, the aqua clear Caribbean water lapping at his feet, the sand a dazzling white powder, the sky a pure blue that could only be God's blank canvas, the sun as something and rich as a Swedish masseur with a snifter of cognac, and he was intensely miserable
The sports agent Myron Bolitar has left his agency in the capable hands of his now partner Esperanza and has run of with a lovely news presenter with an amazing derriere to some remote Caribbean isle where they enjoy themselves with sex and beach. Myron has run away after what happened in the last book, After three weeks of their sun filled fling Win comes to get Myron. Vacation is over as his partner Esperanza has been arrested for the murder of one of his clients.
When he returns he is told very solidly that he cannot contact his business partner / good personal friend and that she has requested this. All the evidence seems to points towards her as Myron did leave town for so many weeks. It is up to Myron and Win to untangle the murder and all its traces that make seemingly no sense at all. It also means that Myron has to find out why the client who a friend of his since college has been killed and find the motive for his murder. It also means that some secrets will come to the light which were best put away. We will learn what grief can make people do. We will learn that some of the less hetero cultures have some impressive muscle that know how to do this. And once again F.J. tries to buy the sports agency when he is not busy stealing clients.
A decent mystery with an ambiguous ending once again, one that will make grown ups ponder about right and wrong. Well written and great dialogue makes this a pleasure to read.
January 26, 2013
Myron Bolitar decided to leave town after the last investigation when started falling in love with the woman he was hired to protect and who didn’t fare so well. He ends up on a private Caribbean beach with a woman he barely knows who is also looking for an escape. Meanwhile, all hell is breaking loose back at home and Win shows up to bring him home to face the carnage. Esperanza and his business are both in trouble and someone has obviously targeted Myron for ruin.
This was one of the best of the stories to date as we not only get Myron’s brain but his heart. We finally get some insight into his personal background beyond basketball, including why he and Jessica Culver parted the first time. The case he returns to is problematic and Esperanza isn’t talking. Myron’s been in trouble before and he’s been able to rely on Win to save the day but this time he finds himself relying on his own wits, skill and downright good luck.
As with all of the stories in this series, I didn’t figure out who was responsible for everything until it was revealed, though I did come close. Myron’s turned a corner in this story, having to do some soul searching and making a final decision about his relationship with Jessica. This is an excellent installment in the series.
This was one of the best of the stories to date as we not only get Myron’s brain but his heart. We finally get some insight into his personal background beyond basketball, including why he and Jessica Culver parted the first time. The case he returns to is problematic and Esperanza isn’t talking. Myron’s been in trouble before and he’s been able to rely on Win to save the day but this time he finds himself relying on his own wits, skill and downright good luck.
As with all of the stories in this series, I didn’t figure out who was responsible for everything until it was revealed, though I did come close. Myron’s turned a corner in this story, having to do some soul searching and making a final decision about his relationship with Jessica. This is an excellent installment in the series.
August 6, 2024
Myron Bolitar serisi benim konfor alanım. Hangi kitabını elime alırsam alayım biliyorum ki sıkıcı bir Pazar günü televizyonda izlediğim CSI: Miami'ler gibi bir şey katmayacak ama keyifli zaman geçirtecek. Bir şey beklemiyorum, beklemediğim için bitirdiğimde mutlu oluyorum. Win-win.
Harlan Coben'in bu seri hariç pek fazla kitabını okuduğumu hatırlamıyorum. Dolayısıyla bu easy-going yazım şekli, nüktedan vurguları, çoğunlukla Nikolai Hel'vari abartılı karakterleri diğer kitaplarında da var mı bilmiyorum. Doğrusu, Harlan Coben bu serinin her kitabını 4-5 günde yazmış ve kalan 360 gününü yazları katlanır şezlongunda, kışları da Laz-y-boy'unda televizyon önünde geçiriyormuş gibi geliyor.
Sonuçta Myron dedektif değil, polis değil. Bir spor menajerinin başına ne kadar fazla cinayetli vurdulu kırdılı olay gelebilir. Geliyor azizim geliyor.
Herkese keyifli okumalar!
Harlan Coben'in bu seri hariç pek fazla kitabını okuduğumu hatırlamıyorum. Dolayısıyla bu easy-going yazım şekli, nüktedan vurguları, çoğunlukla Nikolai Hel'vari abartılı karakterleri diğer kitaplarında da var mı bilmiyorum. Doğrusu, Harlan Coben bu serinin her kitabını 4-5 günde yazmış ve kalan 360 gününü yazları katlanır şezlongunda, kışları da Laz-y-boy'unda televizyon önünde geçiriyormuş gibi geliyor.
Sonuçta Myron dedektif değil, polis değil. Bir spor menajerinin başına ne kadar fazla cinayetli vurdulu kırdılı olay gelebilir. Geliyor azizim geliyor.
Herkese keyifli okumalar!
February 21, 2009
my first Myron Bolitar. I definitely came in in the middle of the series. In this outing, Myron has been sequested in the Caribbean following something from a previous book that I’m not sure of. But while he is gone a fraternity brother from Duke is killed, a baseball player he managed. His former secretary/business partner is arrested. Good writing, witty repartee but hard to come in in the middle of a series. I’d like to try an earlier one.
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December 2, 2012
The 6th book in the Myron Bolitar series by Harlan Coben,
A very good read from one of my favourite writers.
Fast paced and at times humorous but always a great read.
A very good read from one of my favourite writers.
Fast paced and at times humorous but always a great read.
December 4, 2021
Myron Bolitar postanowił wziąć wolne, miał chłop prawo, ile można obrywać po ryju w pracy? Prowadzenie firmy pozostawił na barkach wspólniczki, Esperanzy, ta jednak chyba nie do końca sobie radzi ze stresem, gdyż zostaje oskarżona o zabicie bejsbolisty Clu Haida, wieloletniego klienta Myrona. Ach ci sportowcy, potrafią nieźle wkurzyć! Myron natychmiast wraca, aby pomóc przyjaciółce, ta jednak nie chce wyjawić mu prawdy. Dlaczego Esperanza milczy? Kogo chce ochronić? A może jednak jest winna?
Może trochę naciągana ta historia, ale nie narzekam, czytałam bardziej niedorzeczne rzeczy :)
P.S. Wiem, że będę mało oryginalna, ale zaczynam lubić Wielką Cyndi.
7/10
Może trochę naciągana ta historia, ale nie narzekam, czytałam bardziej niedorzeczne rzeczy :)
P.S. Wiem, że będę mało oryginalna, ale zaczynam lubić Wielką Cyndi.
7/10
February 7, 2017
Still had a bad headcold, so I read this one after I'd read his newest, Home. Interesting, because like most long detective series, you both do, and do not, have to read the books in order. The mysteries themselves don't change with time, so that's not the problem, which is why you can read them out of order. The problem is what you know about the characters. In Home, for example, Terese and Zorra play a larger role than they do here, but in The Final Detail you meet them for the first time. Well, Zorra, anyway. When Bolitar found himself in a cross-dressing bar, I thought, This might be where he meets Zorra. (Female Zorro, get it?) And, indeed, it was. So there's a lot of that kind of thing here for me, though I still don't know who Brenda is/was.
The book itself was a very quick read, and a pleasure to read, though more for the characters than for the mystery. The problem was that we are led to believe that Esperanza, who is in jail for a murder she did not commit, would rather take the rap for that murder, and the prison sentence, than let Bolitar get involved and maybe learn something distasteful about himself and his past. To this end, she does not help him to help her, and barely speaks to him at all, except to tell him to get lost. This is, of course, ridiculous. I've got some very close friends, and I like to think that I'm a helluva good guy for them, as they are for me, but I'm not going to do a few decades in prison for them, for a murder I have not committed, just so I can protect them from learning perhaps an unsavory facet to their lives and personalities. That just ain't happenin', and I'm sure they would feel the same way about me. Totally understandable.
But there's no mystery if she tells him anything, so we have to just bite down on that bitter pill and move on. That this book is a quick pleasure to read at all despite this is testimony to the odd way Coben can tell a quirky story with otherwise believable characters, including a 3rd person narrator who has opinions and breaks the fourth wall, and a psychotic financial specialist who cannot let himself be seen in a busy place (in Home) and yet who runs his own business in a busy office in a Manhattan highrise. Again, you have to shrug your shoulders and move on, but the cool thing here is that you'll want to, and you're okay doing so. Normally you can't do that with so many things breaking that suspension of disbelief, and yet you do, as many people have with Coben, as evidenced by his string of national bestsellers.
Very odd. Also strange was that Coben used the New York Yankees as a vehicle for one of his characters, who ends up being rather unsavory herself, and yet makes up a few ballclubs (like the New Jersey Dragons) for the mystery man to play minor league ball in. It's okay for a vengeful killer to own the Yankees, but not for a drunk young guy to get in a bad car accident while playing for a real minor league team? Did the Yankees give him the okay to use their name, but not the Yankees minor league teams? Strange. As a former bad ballplayer, I was just right on that. Don't know why.
At any rate, you'll see Bolitar emotionally regretting his recent escape and isolation, and how he is with his elderly parents really hit home with me. Who amongst us doesn't have regrets about how we behaved with our now-elderly or now-deceased parents? Coben handled this honestly and well.
Bolitar's ring of friends are too outlandish to take completely at face value. You'll have to just go with their strangeness and sometimes unrealness if you're going to finish this. You'll want to, as I did, but you'll wonder why and marvel at that strangeness, as I also did. But you'll do it anyway.
The book itself was a very quick read, and a pleasure to read, though more for the characters than for the mystery. The problem was that we are led to believe that Esperanza, who is in jail for a murder she did not commit, would rather take the rap for that murder, and the prison sentence, than let Bolitar get involved and maybe learn something distasteful about himself and his past. To this end, she does not help him to help her, and barely speaks to him at all, except to tell him to get lost. This is, of course, ridiculous. I've got some very close friends, and I like to think that I'm a helluva good guy for them, as they are for me, but I'm not going to do a few decades in prison for them, for a murder I have not committed, just so I can protect them from learning perhaps an unsavory facet to their lives and personalities. That just ain't happenin', and I'm sure they would feel the same way about me. Totally understandable.
But there's no mystery if she tells him anything, so we have to just bite down on that bitter pill and move on. That this book is a quick pleasure to read at all despite this is testimony to the odd way Coben can tell a quirky story with otherwise believable characters, including a 3rd person narrator who has opinions and breaks the fourth wall, and a psychotic financial specialist who cannot let himself be seen in a busy place (in Home) and yet who runs his own business in a busy office in a Manhattan highrise. Again, you have to shrug your shoulders and move on, but the cool thing here is that you'll want to, and you're okay doing so. Normally you can't do that with so many things breaking that suspension of disbelief, and yet you do, as many people have with Coben, as evidenced by his string of national bestsellers.
Very odd. Also strange was that Coben used the New York Yankees as a vehicle for one of his characters, who ends up being rather unsavory herself, and yet makes up a few ballclubs (like the New Jersey Dragons) for the mystery man to play minor league ball in. It's okay for a vengeful killer to own the Yankees, but not for a drunk young guy to get in a bad car accident while playing for a real minor league team? Did the Yankees give him the okay to use their name, but not the Yankees minor league teams? Strange. As a former bad ballplayer, I was just right on that. Don't know why.
At any rate, you'll see Bolitar emotionally regretting his recent escape and isolation, and how he is with his elderly parents really hit home with me. Who amongst us doesn't have regrets about how we behaved with our now-elderly or now-deceased parents? Coben handled this honestly and well.
Bolitar's ring of friends are too outlandish to take completely at face value. You'll have to just go with their strangeness and sometimes unrealness if you're going to finish this. You'll want to, as I did, but you'll wonder why and marvel at that strangeness, as I also did. But you'll do it anyway.
June 2, 2020
Another winner in the Myron Bolitar series. I love the series; it has great characters, great stories, and good humor. If you haven't read any of the series yet, don't get fooled by the basics of a sports agent with a goofy name in New Jersey. It's much better than it sounds. In fact, you may as well start with number one in the series. It's better that way, and you'll want to read them all eventually.
September 2, 2013
This book was weak. I think it was too focused on Myron's shortcomings. Not that the idea of a sports agent who solves crimes with his preppy murderous friend is at all realistic but I'm rolling my eyes a ton at this book. Myron is almost unlikable.
I'm just not sure I get the hype about these novels. Nothing about them is particularly great.
I'm just not sure I get the hype about these novels. Nothing about them is particularly great.
October 8, 2018
I enjoyed the characters in this book most of all, plus the manner in which Coben explores the relationships between Myron and his associates, particularly Win who is F. Scott Fitzgerald meets Jim Harrison meets James Lee Burke sort of guy. Lots of plot twists and a fair amount of violence. A bit of leavening humor doesn't go amiss in this sort of story and Coben hands that over as well.
July 3, 2016
What's not to like about Myron Bolitar?! Another terrific story, maybe not quite as good as the previous book, but still great, with a very convoluted plot and no shortage of funny lines. Always enjoyable!
December 29, 2017
Really interesting and an easy read.
February 5, 2017
I just can't get enough of the Myron Bolitar series, it's like a very powerful magnet, and I'm the metal object trying to pull away from the magnet, HAHA!
The Final Detail picks up shortly after the conclusion of One False Move, Myron Bolitar is on a mini vacation on a tropical beach with a woman he hardly knows which is going just about perfectly, until unexpectedly Win arrives to tell him that Esperanza is in trouble. Esperanza has been accused f killing on of Myron's sports clients, and when Myron questions her about it, she isn't talking. So now Myron, along with Win, must clear Esperanza's name and solve another dark mystery.
The ending just blew me away, and in a way it gives you a sense of right and wrong.
The Final Detail picks up shortly after the conclusion of One False Move, Myron Bolitar is on a mini vacation on a tropical beach with a woman he hardly knows which is going just about perfectly, until unexpectedly Win arrives to tell him that Esperanza is in trouble. Esperanza has been accused f killing on of Myron's sports clients, and when Myron questions her about it, she isn't talking. So now Myron, along with Win, must clear Esperanza's name and solve another dark mystery.
The ending just blew me away, and in a way it gives you a sense of right and wrong.
April 22, 2017
Two-haiku review:
Myron is depressed
Esperanza arrested
He must clear her name
Complicated tale
Issue of right versus wrong
Sins come back to haunt
Myron is depressed
Esperanza arrested
He must clear her name
Complicated tale
Issue of right versus wrong
Sins come back to haunt
July 30, 2017
The Final Detail is the sixth book of the popular Myron Bolitar series and begins with Myron and a beautiful woman on a small Caribbean island. After the emotional events that occurred in the last book, One False Move, Myron was unable to cope with his life or career as the owner of MB SportsReps, a Manhattan-based sports agency. His best friend and confidant, Win arrives by yacht to tell him that Esperanza Diaz, Myron's partner in MB SportsReps, has been arrested for murder.
She's alleged to have killed New York Yankees pitcher Clu Haid, Myron's first client. Myron and Haid were fraternity brothers years before at Duke University. Myron knows Esmeralda is innocent, despite the fact that the murder weapon was found in Myron's office. There's also the fact that Clu had withdrawn $200,000 from his investment account and his blood has been found in Myron's car, the car that was being driven by Esperanza.
I really enjoy this series and it's turned into one of my favorites. While the book starts a bit slowly, it picks up it's pace after a few chapters and becomes a page turner. This is a series that continues to get better the further you go. It's got humor, and there's always a lot of wisecracking dialogue between the main characters. Win is an especially fascinating character who is handsome, wealthy, and a bit of a psycho. Esperanza takes a back seat in this book but Big Cyndi, her friend and former wrestling tag team partner, gets a chance to really shine. It's a great mystery and also explores how Myron feels about facing up to who you are and how you make the most of the rest of your life.
She's alleged to have killed New York Yankees pitcher Clu Haid, Myron's first client. Myron and Haid were fraternity brothers years before at Duke University. Myron knows Esmeralda is innocent, despite the fact that the murder weapon was found in Myron's office. There's also the fact that Clu had withdrawn $200,000 from his investment account and his blood has been found in Myron's car, the car that was being driven by Esperanza.
I really enjoy this series and it's turned into one of my favorites. While the book starts a bit slowly, it picks up it's pace after a few chapters and becomes a page turner. This is a series that continues to get better the further you go. It's got humor, and there's always a lot of wisecracking dialogue between the main characters. Win is an especially fascinating character who is handsome, wealthy, and a bit of a psycho. Esperanza takes a back seat in this book but Big Cyndi, her friend and former wrestling tag team partner, gets a chance to really shine. It's a great mystery and also explores how Myron feels about facing up to who you are and how you make the most of the rest of your life.
February 22, 2018
I think maybe I came to the party late.
This is the sixth book in the Myron Bolitar series, but when I picked it up in charity shop, I thought it was a stand alone work. So, there's been a lot of history with the characters that I missed, but it was quite easy to pick it up.
I'm really bored with Private Investigators now, and especially ones who aren't even PI's but end up solving murders. The author had the usual bunch of eclectic friends, lady ex-wrestlers and a billionaire assassin as a best friend. It seems that these kind of eccentric characters are there to prop up the story in the dull bits, of which there are many.
Myron and Win reminded me of Spenser and Hawk a little too much. It's very convenient to have a completely amoral assassin friend, because he can do all the bad things that the hero would like to do but can't.
Coben is definitely a very good writer. His plot, long winded and dull though it was, was interspersed with lots of genuine insights into relationships, male / female, father / son and friend to friend.
I can see why Coben is using the detective genre as a vehicle, because it's hard to keeping coming up with stand alone books, but for me that was when his best work was done.
All in all, an ok read, but long before the end I didn't care who did it, and just wanted to get it over and done with. I won't be reading any more in the series.
This is the sixth book in the Myron Bolitar series, but when I picked it up in charity shop, I thought it was a stand alone work. So, there's been a lot of history with the characters that I missed, but it was quite easy to pick it up.
I'm really bored with Private Investigators now, and especially ones who aren't even PI's but end up solving murders. The author had the usual bunch of eclectic friends, lady ex-wrestlers and a billionaire assassin as a best friend. It seems that these kind of eccentric characters are there to prop up the story in the dull bits, of which there are many.
Myron and Win reminded me of Spenser and Hawk a little too much. It's very convenient to have a completely amoral assassin friend, because he can do all the bad things that the hero would like to do but can't.
Coben is definitely a very good writer. His plot, long winded and dull though it was, was interspersed with lots of genuine insights into relationships, male / female, father / son and friend to friend.
I can see why Coben is using the detective genre as a vehicle, because it's hard to keeping coming up with stand alone books, but for me that was when his best work was done.
All in all, an ok read, but long before the end I didn't care who did it, and just wanted to get it over and done with. I won't be reading any more in the series.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 8, 2012
Interesting. Not great literature, but any avid reader would know that going into it. The book is written to be a vacation read, and it is a clever little mystery. And while it won't win any awards for great writing, the author does throw some unexpected substance in there occasionally. He approaches body image issues, the effects of living in an increasingly self-obsessed society, and the unpopular notion of a positive parental relationship just to name three. Harlan Coben might not be my favorite writer ever, but I think he would be a fascinating person to have lunch with.
September 16, 2010
This is #6 in the Myron Bolitar series, and I haven't yet read #3-5. There was some reference to a past relationship, where I had no idea what had happened, nor was it ever revealed. That sort of bothered me. And unlike #2 in the series where I was able to figure out the ending almost immediately, in this book there is no way anyone could figure it out unless they read ahead. But the main plot was well written and gripping to the end, as usual.
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