Talk about a long, deep, dark hunt! How Coben works this all out to come up with the entanglements....whew!!! I have to back up and read the two books just before this one to catch up on some details I'm missing in this series!! ( )

Another winner in the Myron Bolitar series. I love the series; it has great characters, great stories, and good humor. If you haven't read any of the series yet, don't get fooled by the basics of a sports agent with a goofy name in New Jersey. It's much better than it sounds. In fact, you may as well start with number one in the series. It's better that way, and you'll want to read them all eventually. ( )

The Final Detail is the sixth book of the popular Myron Bolitar series and begins with Myron and a beautiful woman on a small Caribbean island. After the emotional events that occurred in the last book, One False Move, Myron was unable to cope with his life or career as the owner of MB SportsReps, a Manhattan-based sports agency. His best friend and confidant, Win arrives by yacht to tell him that Esperanza Diaz, Myron's partner in MB SportsReps, has been arrested for murder.

She's alleged to have killed New York Yankees pitcher Clu Haid, Myron's first client. Myron and Haid were fraternity brothers years before at Duke University. Myron knows Esmeralda is innocent, despite the fact that the murder weapon was found in Myron's office. There's also the fact that Clu had withdrawn $200,000 from his investment account and his blood has been found in Myron's car, the car that was being driven by Esperanza.

I really enjoy this series and it's turned into one of my favorites. While the book starts a bit slowly, it picks up it's pace after a few chapters and becomes a page turner. This is a series that continues to get better the further you go. It's got humor, and there's always a lot of wisecracking dialogue between the main characters. Win is an especially fascinating character who is handsome, wealthy, and a bit of a psycho. Esperanza takes a back seat in this book but Big Cyndi, her friend and former wrestling tag team partner, gets a chance to really shine. It's a great mystery and also explores how Myron feels about facing up to who you are and how you make the most of the rest of your life.
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Coben's protagonist is Myron Bolitar who is a professional sports agent. I only have one sport so I've been waiting for his baseball book. I shouldn't have waited. This guy knows how to make words sing. "The plane descended without delay, the landing was so smooth it could have been choreographed by the Temptations." Little gems like this are sprinkled liberally throughout the story which is also not too shabby. In Final Detail Bolitar's partner, Esperanza, has been arrested for the murder of one of his clients, pitcher Clu Haid and she won't say a word about anything. The characters are all people I would love to have lunch with and the dialogue is snappy. I can't wait to read the other Coben's. ( )

Excellently narrated by Jonathan Marosz. This is the 6th in the Myron Bolitar series. It's funny yet serious. Coben muses periodically through the characters on an assortment of issues. Gender plays a role in this mystery and one of the characters, Thrill, a journalist going incognito as a stunning thrill seeker with a substantial bosom, explains how men react to mammary glands. It's as "if the nipples were grapefruit spoons to reached out and gouged out the frontal lobes of men making them lose all sense." she muses.

Myron has, for all intents and purposes, disappeared to the Caribbean. Wyn tracks him down to bring him back following murder charges that have been lodged against Myron's assistant, Esperanza. The plot revolves around an incident that happened many years ago. Whether Wyn is right in rationalizing Myron's behavior I leave to the reader. Let's just say the book is replete with ethical conundrums (conundra? - there seems to be some disagreement.) ( )