Promise Me (Myron Bolitar Mysteries) | 
 enlarge | Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Signet
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Pages: 512
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Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 4.2 x 1.1
ISBN: 0451219244
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780451219244
ASIN: 0451219244
Publication Date: March 1, 2007
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Product Description
New York Times bestselling author Harlan Coben returns with PROMISE ME--a searing new thriller and a story of how far we will go to protect our own .
It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six 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 almost 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, and 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 am, 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 day, the girl s parents discover that their daughter is missing. And that Myron was the last person to see her. Desperate to fulfill 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.
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 Weak Link January 5, 2009
Benjamin Shaw (Greenville, SC USA)
First, I have always thought that Coben's stand-alone novels are stronger than his Myron Bolitar series. Second, the Publishers Weekly blurb identifies Bolitar as "the former Boston Celtics basketball star." It makes me wonder if the blurb writer has read any of the books. Bolitar was a Duke basketball star, signed by the Celtics, but who had his knee destroyed (a story in its own right) before he played any regular season basketball for the Celtics. Third, Coben's reading, contrary to the PW blurb, is distracting and underscores the weaknesses of the book. Coben reads too fast in narrative sections, so that he almost stumbles over his own words. In addition, his voices are awful. His women's voices sound like a bad transvestite, and his men's voices all sound like the cartoon character Goofy. The novel has the usual baker's dozen of plot twists, but this time around it's just not engaging.
 More Myron Please! October 22, 2008
C. Utterback
Myron Bolitar books are awesome. It was a little wierd with him being 40 years old, but this is another solid Myron book. 5 stars!
 Good Book! September 23, 2008
Lynn Odell (Raleigh, NC)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
"I have read all the Myron Bolitar books and enjoyed them immensely.
However, although, all the great characters are in it, this is not his normal escapade. There are no sports figures being framed for murder or dying for that matter.
This is just a great mystery with Myron stuck in the middle, accidentally. Have tissue handy because this one could cause eye leakage."
Can't wait for the rest of the Myron Bolitar series to be published for Kindle September 20, 2008
Ken Sturgeon (O'Fallon, MO.)
Currently this is the only one of the Myron Bolitar series that has been published for the Kindle, and therefore the only one I've read. I'm hooked. I hope the rest of Harlan Coben's novels will be published for Kindles because he is clearly one of my favorite authors.
Mystery and Suburban Desperation September 18, 2008
Bob Avey (Tulsa, OK)
In Harlan Coben's, Promise Me, agent slash avenger, Myron Bolitar, inherits more than he bargained for when he asks a couple of teenage girls to promise and call him if they are ever in trouble. Coben delivers a plot full of action and misdirection that's sure to please mystery and suspense fans in this tale of suburban desperation.
I liked the book, though I found the love scenes between Myron and his new girlfriend, Ali, to be a bit too cute. I also felt Myron's sidekick, Win, was an over-the-top hero. No matter what Myron needed or when he needed it, his buddy Win was there to deliver.
That being said, Promise Me has that hard to define Make-you-want-to-read-it quality going in full force.
Bob Avey, Author of Beneath a Buried House
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