Live Wire

Myron Bolitar, Book 10

By: Harlan Coben

Narrated by: Steven Weber

Length: 9 hrs and 43 mins

Publisher's summary

Harlan Coben has risen to the top of best-seller lists worldwide, attracting voracious audiences for his peerless novels of domestic suspense as well as those featuring his fan-favorite sports agent, Myron Bolitar. Now in Live Wire, he offers a knock-your-socks-off novel that will electrify all his fans: Myron’s family takes center stage.

Myron Bolitar has always dreamed about the voluptuous femme fatale walking into his office and asking for help. The woman standing in his doorway has killer curves all right: She’s eight months pregnant, which kind of ruins the fantasy. Former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, are both clients, and over the years Myron has negotiated his share of contracts for the power pair. But now Lex has disappeared and a very pregnant Suzze is in tears, fearing the online rumors questioning the baby’s paternity have driven away the man she swears is the child’s father.

For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn’t hit closer to home, as his dad, Al, clings to life; the brother who abandoned them all years ago is in trouble; and Myron’s teenage nephew needs an authority figure. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze’s past; his family’s mortality - and before Live Wire is over, his own.

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Be sure to start at the beginning of this series.

You can read the Bolitar books as a stand alone, but don't. The series of books are really dynamic, and I am so glad someone told me to start with #1. I haven't read Win yet, and can already see why it was a good decision to wait.

Stevie Weber is the BEST!

Harlan is in top form in this one, but it takes a great actor/interpreter/storyteller to make the story magnificent. We’re lucky to have Steven reading to us.

5 stars for Myron, Win and the narrator

This was one of Coben's best Bolitar novels. I don't like any of his other books but for some reason, the Myron series totally hooks me. Having grown up not too far from where most of the action takes place, the characters are very real to me, from Big Cindy to the Ache brothers. What I love the best, though, is the relationship between Myron and Win, and it's always a thrill to see what Win is going to do next. In this book, he blew it away - I don't see how he'll top it in the future, but that's why I look forward to every new book in the series.

If I could, I would give this narrator ten stars. His renditions of each of the characters brought them vividly to life. Maybe the best narration of any Audible book I've bought in four years. All in all, one of the best Audible purchases I've ever made.

Funny, fresh but still vintage Bolitar

Live Wire succeeds where so many other series fail. By taking risks with his characters, Harlan Coben keeps them dynamic and fresh. A few are moving into new stages in their lives, making me wonder what lies ahead.

As a special treat, Big Cindy starts to come into her own as a character. The scenes and dialog featuring her and Myron are a delight -- and Steven Weber's narration does them proud. Nothing like driving to work on US 1/9 and the Polaski Skyway and finding myself laughing out loud in my car to brighten my day. Coben keeps his writing lean and the story on track. Excellent work from an author who is both a genuine talent and a professional -- not to mention a really funny guy.

Best of a great series

I have been so enjoying Harlen Coben’s stories of Myron and friends. This particular title combined all the joys and sorrows of family and aging, life and loss with a dramatic, intriguing, insightful and clever mystery. Big fan of Harlen Koben. Thank you. Sad to have only one more left to read.

Too Much Filler

I’ve only read a handful of the Coben’s books which have all been his more recent Bolitare/WIN books. The storylines in the earlier books just do not sound appealing to me. I enjoyed Home so I was hoping this one would be as good, but I found this book lacking in focus. There was way too much filler (like the baseball game story when he was 10 and the shaving endorsement) that did not add anything to the story. I also found the conversation with Lex at the end of the book to be irritating and rambled on way too long. I guess the author was trying to add some suspense but it was frustrating to hear.

The biggest reasons for 3 stars are related to several issues in the story including:
• The continual reference to switching birth control pills - this is not possible because they come in foil with single punch out pills
• Myron and his crew were frequently searching the internet and all of their contacts to find his brother Brad who had actually died in a car wreck in CA (which would have been reported in the news and filed in a police report)
• Snow somehow gets to Gabriel and kills him when Gabriel was a recluse being protected by a mobster and guarded by Crisp
• Myron confesses to a cop that he killed someone (albeit in self defense) but there is no fallout from that

Overall the story was disjointed, had too many holes, and too much filler. This will probably be my last Coben book for awhile.

Not his very best but good

I like the Myron Bolitar series. The characters are off the wall, but endearing. This particular book as one other person said leaves an ending that will start a young adult trilogy. Quite by accident I listened to the trilogy first, so I know the entire story of Brad. I am a senior citizen and didn't realize that the book Shelter was a young adult book until I got into it. Let me just say that this YA trilogy is awesome!! I couldn't wait to get to the next one and bought all of them for my teenage grandkids. The characters in the Mickey series are very quirky and you will love them. I also just finished another Myron Bolitar book called Home. It was fabulous and incorporated Mickey and his pals . I would suggest that you read the trilogy first so you understand Ema, Mickey's best friend.

More about the Bolitars

Not my favorite book, but it was good to know more about besties Myron and Win and extended family.
The truth is I love Steven Weber’s reading-would probably listen to the phone book if he read it. His inflections are wonderful, he brings every word to life. Love the writer’s well-turned words, especially in Weber’s voices.

GOOD

Not great but good. A little too descriptive about irrelevant things not Jermaine to the story. Maybe thats just me. I have enjoyed several of his books.

Needs new narrator and return to comedy

Weber is awful. Also, Corben needs to adds more comedy as he did in first few Myron books.