Reviews for Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar Series #1)

The average rating for Deal Breaker (Myron Bolitar Series #1) based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2020-04-14 00:00:00 Donald Woods "'Be extra careful,' Win said. 'The word has hit the streets.' 'What word?' 'A price has officially been put on your head,' Win said, as if it were amusing cocktail conversation. 'Thirty thousand dollars to the man who takes you out.' Myron made a face. 'Thirty thousand? Hell, I used to be a fed. I should be worth sixty, seventy grand minimum.' 'Bad economy. Times are tough.' 'I'm being discounted?' 'Appears so, yes.'" Myron Bolitar used to be a lot of things. He used to be a phenomenal college basketball star. He used to work for the FBI. He used to have a hot girlfriend. Life has thrown him a few curve balls, and now he is a struggling sports agent. He has recently landed the number one football prospect in the nation, so his struggling days might be over...except it just can't be that easy. Negotiations with the Titans have been like pushing a boulder uphill in Sisyphus fashion. They are looking for any reasonable or unreasonable way to discount Christian Steele's soon-to-be large, record-setting contract, and when a picture of Steele's missing girlfriend shows up in the 1-900 sex ad in the back of the seedy Nips magazine, they think they might finally have a way to get Steele cheap. So is Kathy Culver alive? Or is this some diabolical, greed-driven plan by the Titans to damage Steele so they can sign a potentially generational athlete for a lot less money? Bolitar is not going to let his one big chance to establish himself as a viable sports agent slip away. That would be enough motivation for anyone, but Bolitar has even more reason to find out the truth, and she walked right into his office. Jessica Culver, the sister of the aforementioned hot girlfriend, comes to see him, looking amazing, smelling unbelievably good, and imploring him to help find her sister. Well, he was going to try anyway, but now, well, let's just be honest, it crosses his mind that this might be an opportunity for Jessica to move from his past to his present and foreseeable future. Soon Bolitar has unscrupulous sports agents circling around him like vultures, waiting for the last twitch of his fingers to scoop up his players. He has a contract, an embarrassingly low contract, out on his life. The facts of the Culver case are revealing themselves too slowly. Lies beget more lies, and the truth quickly becomes a train wreck for everyone involved. Bolitar would be swimming in an ocean without a shore, except for the fact that his best friend is Windsor Horne Lockwood III. His carefully coiffed blond hair, his movie star good looks, his expensive clothes, and his lavish lifestyle might lead one to believe that he is just a bluestocking scum, a handsome blight on the world as he waits to inherit the family fortune, but he happens to be a psychopath. He happens to be Bolitar's psychopath. When one has a psychopath willing and able to exert terror and pain upon your enemies, you do have a responsibility to use such a weapon sparingly. And when you do make the determination that there are no other options than to deploy Win, then you must be very specific with instructions. For example: terrorize, but don't hurt; hurt, but don't kill. Oh yes, be very specific indeed. Bolitar's secretary, Experanza Diaz, a smoldering hot temptation who used to be a professional wrestler, is none too happy to see the bombshell Jessica waltzing back into her boss's life. She helped glue some of the devastated pieces of his life back together, and the last thing she wants to see is Myron shattered once again. Despite the fact that Myron Bolitar played for Duke University and helped them win two national championships, I found myself enjoying riding along with him. Harlan Coben, did it have to be Duke? To be clear, I root for any team who is playing Duke University's basketball team. I even *shudder* root for Kentucky over Duke. As a lifelong University of Kansas fan, I've experienced a few heartbreaks and triumphs regarding Duke. The sports aspects provide an unusual and enjoyable backdrop, that for me, is a new series to explore. I even enjoy the fact that these were paperback originals in the 1990s before Coben became the king of suspense on the bestseller list. They were released in hardcover editions starting in 2006. I'm curious to see what Coben will do with this cast of characters, and I will be cuing up the next book in the series Drop Shot very soon. If you wish to see more of my most recent book and movie reviews, visit I also have a Facebook blogger page at: and an Instagram account

Review # 2 was written on 2017-02-23 00:00:00 John Thomas I listened to the audio version of Deal Breaker. Myron with his witty sense of humor and sarcasm had me laughing and cringing at the same time. It is an easy, fun and entertaining book. Just what I needed.