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Drop Shot | 
 enlarge | Author: Harlan Coben
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
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Rating:  15 reviews
Sales Rank: 3962
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 384
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Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.3 x 1.2
ISBN: 075284914X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780752849140
ASIN: 075284914X
Publication Date: May 2, 2002
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 Good but an obvious ending May 16, 2008
KM (England)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
`Drop Shot' is the second book in the Myron Bolitar series, written by Harlan Coben. The story begins when during a big match at the US Open, a tennis star is gunned down and killed. The lead suspect is the player who was playing on the main court during the shooting. The suspect is also Myron's client, so he goes on the hunt for the killer, getting on the nerves of everyone involved on his way, which leads him to an older murder from six years ago.
I recently read the first book in the series, Deal Breaker, and absolutely loved it and started reading this immediately afterwards and although the story was fast paced and exciting, with some excellent characters and some wonderful and witty dialogue, I had guessed who the killer was and what the twist was about 100 pages into the book, so everything that was happening was just building up to what I had quite easily worked out at the start. This is a shame as, like I said, it is a very well written book from one of the best US crime writers in recent years. There is still a lot of twists and surprises that I didn't see coming, some which did shock me, but I was nearly screaming at the page for Myron to realise what was happening here as it was so obvious.
I'm still going to give this book 4 out of 5 stars as it was a very enjoyable read that I flew through in no time and was genuinely hooked from the opening page, but it was just way too predictable to give it the full 5 star rating. I look forward to reading the rest in the series and just hope that they are a little harder to work out next time.
excellent read September 25, 2007
Mrs. I. Blackwell (Birmingham UK)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is when I really got into Coben's books. Gripping until the end and you suspect anybody but the actual ONE.
 A Thriller from Start to Finish June 20, 2007
J. Chippindale (England)
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.
When Myron Bolitar begins to investigate the killing of young woman outside a sports stadium, a woman who was once at the forefront of her profession as a tennis professional he uncovers a connection between the dead woman and another young female player from the wrong side of the tracks who is now hitting the headlines in the middle of the US Open Championships.
There is a connection between the two players and a six year old murder at an exclusive club. Suddenly Bolitar find himself in way over his head. Among the players in this particular game are a US senator, a jealous mother and the mob. Bolitar find himself playing the most dangerous game of all.
A Thriller from Start to Finish June 20, 2007
J. Chippindale (England)
2 out of 4 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.
When Myron Bolitar begins to investigate the killing of young woman outside a sports stadium, a woman who was once at the forefront of her profession as a tennis professional he uncovers a connection between the dead woman and another young female player from the wrong side of the tracks who is now hitting the headlines in the middle of the US Open Championships.
There is a connection between the two players and a six year old murder at an exclusive club. Suddenly Bolitar find himself in way over his head. Among the players in this particular game are a US senator, a jealous mother and the mob. Bolitar find himself playing the most dangerous game of all.
Drop Shot - from Edinburgh to Flushing Meadow? June 24, 2004
S. Cottrell
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
It may be because I haven't read too much crime fiction, or it may be because Coben is strongly influenced by Ian Rankin, but on reading 'Drop Shot' (my first venture into Coben's NJ/NYC-cenred world), I couldn't help but imagine John Rebus charging through the action.In fact, the main character, Myron Bolitar shares a lot of traits with Rankin's leading man. A washed-up 50-something Edinburgh alcoholic can have more in common with a 6'4" former all-american sports star-turned fed-turned attorney-turned sports agent than you might think. Bolitar specialises in putting himself at needless risk. He itches for the truth, even when he knows that the truth can do no good, and he fights an internal battle between optimism and cynical despair. Like Rebus, he sees himself as a 'shining knight' whose heroics can endanger those he seeks to help. Like Rebus he relies upon a mean streak,a willingness to overstep the legal limit and dubious friends to get results, and like Rebus he had a promising future cut off at the outset. Coben's writing is sassy and sharp. The style is ironic, without lapsing into parody and the plot twists hit you like a kick to the solar plexus. The only two failings with this novel are that Win (Bolitar's best friend) is such a larger-than-life presence that he verges at times on being a plot device rather than an actual character, and the fact that I managed to unravel some of the intrigue before our hero (although it took me a while to figure out whodunnit). I am usually hopeless at predicting outcomes in thrillers. Otherwise, Drop Shot is as biting an indictment of the morals of a social set (The US Tennis fraternity) as anything Rankin has delivered in his dissection of Edinburgh's New Town doctors, lawyers and gangsters. I'm off to buy another Coben now, if only to discover whether Frank Ache is as worthy a nemesis to Bolitar as Cafferty to Rebus.
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