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One False Move | 
 enlarge | Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 326216
Media: Hardcover
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.1 x 1.3
ISBN: 0752856081
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780752856087
ASIN: 0752856081
Publication Date: January 2, 2004
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Hardcover, orion Books edition, 2003. Dust jacket is unclipped. Very light shelf wear. No inscriptions. Sent by first class mail.
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Amazon.co.uk 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
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 Remember It's Fiction April 21, 2008
A few moaners out there about this one eh? A shame. Harlan's a great entertainer. His stand-alones are first class, but once you get hooked on the Bolitars, you just have to read them all... in order. This might even be the best of them.
A new favourite December 28, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
He's done it again. I picked up this 'author' completely by random and this is the third book I've read - and finished very quickly!! The pace of this book is unrelenting - after the first three chapters or so it takes off and never stops. Again, there is a main plot without a million subplots and padding, allowing the reader to be drawn into the characters. I DO have one problem. I could rant all day about the atrocious name for the main character, which is the only thing that consistently brings the pace of these books to a standstill (if only for a second - but so easily avoided). It's so phonetically displeasing I feel angry that such a silly mistake could potentially rob me of the joy of such great writing. I've actually had to employ 'tactics' to get around it so it can't be left unsaid. The secondary character, on the other hand - Win - is possibly one of the strongest I've come across in a long time and I can't wait to meet him again. Somehow this author manages to mix thrill and suspense and violence and, best of all, humour - to create the perfect (please excuse cliche) recipe for a bestseller. I'll be off to order another in the series tomorrow.
A nice little find November 6, 2007
I picked this book up completely randomly, and it was a pleasant surprise to see how good it was. Not difficult to read, and it draws you into the plot. Whilst I wasn't that too happy with the identity of the murderer, everything beforehand was good. As well as the general plot, there were these little passages dotted here and there questioning the views of society today, particularly in sport, towards women and blacks.
I have to say I'm not a great fan of one-liners, but there were certainly a couple in here that even I found amusing. This books isn't for those who want something long and challenging, but a good, easy read with a serious plot flavoured with some well-placed humour.
quite a sensitive one - must read September 25, 2007
This book shows a different side to Myron. While his relationship with Jessica has been up and down throughout the first few novels with this one it gets quite a hit. I got myself a little too involved and actually swore out loud, on the bus, at the end when Coben finally unmasks the guilty one.
Top Class Suspense Thriller July 10, 2007
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Harlan Coben continues to prove that he is one of the best thriller writers around at the moment. A page turner is a much used phrase but in this case it is really appropriate. The author's books are always so well structured and his character's well rounded. He is obviously comfortable with his style and ability and this transmits itself to the reader making the reading of his books sheer pleasure from start to finish. Coben has now got a string of best selling crime novels behind him and all I can say is that I hope he continues to write for many years to come. The author lives in New Jersey with his wife and four children.
Myron Bolitar is no slouch when it comes to looking after himself, maybe not as fit as when he was a professional sportsman, but as a sports agent he's hanging around with some of the best and it pays to keep fit and he has always felt he could handle any situation that is thrown his way. That is until he meets one of the hottest sports properties around, Brenda Slaughter.
She is a real stunner, funny and single, and strangely enough seems to between agents, or at least lost the one she has got. But when her father disappears and the Mob starts to lean on her it soon becomes apparent that Myron is not quite as tough as he thought and he finds himself plunged into a spiral of deceit and death . . .
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