This is (apparently) the eighth book from Mister Coben to feature his character Myron Bolitar. Myron is a crocked former basketball star, now private investigator.
The book centres around two teenage girls going missing, Myron is the last person to see one of them, but are they kidnap victims or runaways, or worse? They both draw cash from the same New York ATM machine, coincidence or what? They attended the same school, though they didn’t appear to know one another, so what has happened to them, and where are they?
The characters are well portrayed, the story rattles along at a good pace, there are twists and turns aplenty right up till the very end, (no small feat that) and the story hooks the reader pretty damn quick. It might help if you knew some of these characters already, so you may prefer to try one of his earlier books first. The regular references to rock bands and singers always give it a contemporary feel, though that could also make it date rather quickly.
Some of the dialogue is humorous and witty, but at other times some of the slick and silly ripostes began to annoy me. Even one of the characters at one stage says, “stops trying to be funny”, or words to that effect and I could sympathise with that. I am not sure how long this book will live in the memory either, surely the true test of any book.
That said, I enjoyed it a great deal, it was easy to read, and to get into in the first place, and I will certainly be reading more from this interesting writer.
Promise me by Harlan Coben
ISBN: 075287439x
Promise Me by Harlan Coben - Book Review
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