not nearly as good as some of his more recent work.

I have enjoyed every Harlan Coben book - except this one. Many times during the listening, it sounded like the narration was "electronic" - i.e., a..Show More »s if changes were made in the narration via a machine. It would be hard to believe that the narrator really spoke that way! Also, his voice is so deep that he is difficult to understand. As for the plot, I found it very slow - the book dragged until the end, and as another reviewer stated, the end was rushed. Slow, slow, slow and then--------fast and finished! This book, while written a number of years ago, has me questioning if I want to try another Harlan Coben.

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I enjoy Harlan Coban's mysteries and have just finished this gem set during the US Open for golf. The plot is loaded with twists and turns and it see..Show More »ms everyone has a motive to kill or kidnap! While the ending is a bit of an all too quick wrap up I enjoyed the story and was disappointed that there was no more.
The narrator excels on all the parts except the sidekick Esmerelda (Esmee) where the accent falls short.

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If you just like to read for the enjoyment and don't care too much about the plot, this is the right series. I would compare them to the Janet Evanovi..Show More »ch's
books. Myron Bolitar is quick witted and fun to spend time with.

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Myron and his side-kick are witty and fun to spend time with. Don't take them so seriously. Just enjoy.

This is the seventh Myron Bolitar novel, I believe, and we can see why Mr. Coben decided to put the character to rest. Coben had clearly taken this ch..Show More »aracter as far as he could. The book is certainly readable, and Jonathan Marosz makes it listenable. But the cast of characters seems tired rather than fresh, and each of them has become unidimensional, with the possible exception of Windsor Locke Horne III, who is something of a cartoon anyway. The plot has devolved into something resembling supermarket paperback stuff. Coben has by this time amassed a large audience, and I really believe that he did not want to milk this character, his first creation, to the bitter end. Unfortunately, the humor by this point is pretty much gone. We were delighted at first by Esperanza and Big Cindi, along with Myron and Win and Myron's parents, but none of them has grown. The story involves a 13-year-old boy who is Myron's son by an old flame named Emily. The boy needs a bone marrow transplant, for which there are very few donors. Near the end we learn that the father of a journalist friend has kidnapped Jeremy, the boy, but frankly the plot has twisted so many times and turned for no reason other than to complicate things, that Coben actually manages to squeeze this stuff so hard that it's a little boring. Good thing he began writing other books.

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Harlan Coben is a great writer. Sadly, he's not such a good narrator. I would have loved this story if Scott Brick had been doing the narrating. I did..Show More »n't realize that Coben was the narrator until the end of the book. He began the book by appearing to read as fast as he possibly could. Mercifully he slowed down as the book progressed. I still very much enjoyed the book because, in the end, the writing trumps the narration. I have listened to several Coben novels but this was the first in the Bolitar series. It was pure escapism as several characters had a comic book personna. The twists and turns were there and the final one was both plausible and surprising. This was a good story and a relaxing listen. It would have been great if Brick had done the narration. I'll try another in the Bolitar series.

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It is good, Harlan Coben delivers everytime. He does not dissapoint. I would buy any of his books for a nice read. I now drink Makers Mark bourban.

I really like this book the narrator and the story were excellent. There were plenty of twists and turns in the plot that kept the listener enthralled..Show More » in the story. I can highly recommend this book.

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