Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled
past who''s now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her
agent. Myron, who''s also got the hottest young male tennis star,
Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament,
couldn''t be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad
daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron''s number one client becomes the
number one suspect. Clearing Duane''s name should be easy enough.
Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie''s death. But
why is his phone number in Valerie''s black book when he claims only
to have known her in passing? Why was she calling him from a phone
booth on the street? The police stop caring once they pin the
murder on a man known for having stalked Valerie and seen talking
to her moments before the murder. But Myron isn''t satisfied. It
seems too clean for him. Myron pries a bit and finds himself prying
open the past where six years before, Valerie''s fiancee, the son of
a senator, was brutally murdered by a juvenile delinquent and a
straight-A student was subsequently gunned down on the street in
retaliation, his death squandered in bureaucratic files. And
everyone from the Senator to the mob want Myron to stop digging.
The truth beneath the truth is not only dangerous, it''s deadly. And
Myron may be the next victim. In novels that crackle with wit and
suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the
most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction--Myron
Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and
more engaging and unpredictable with each
page-turningappearance.
關於作者:
Harlan Coben is the author of six previous novels:The Final
Detail, One False Move, Back Spin, the Edgar Award and Shamus
Award-winning Fade Away, Drop Shot, and Deal Breaker, which won an
Anthony Award and received an Edgar Award nomination.He lives in
New Jersey with his wife, daughter, and two sons.His e-mail address
is bolitar@aol.com.Visit his website at www.harlancoben.com.--From
the Hardcover edition.