- Mystery, Kidnapping, Sports agents, Missing children
Kidnappers have snatched the teenage son of super-star golfer Linda Coldren and her husband, Jack, an aging pro, at the height of the U.S. Open. To help get the boy back, sports agent Myron Bolitar goes charging after clues and suspects from the Main Line mansions to a downtown cheaters' motel--and back in time to a U.S.
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Classical in form, contemporary, earnest and relentless.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- resolvedopen-ended
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About the book
- Author
- Harlan Coben
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 384
- Publisher
- Albatros, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), RBA
- Editions
- 36
- Language
- tur, Chinese, French, Polish
- ISBN
- 9780739341001
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“Myron Bolitar used a cardboard periscope to look over the suffocating throngs of ridiculously clad spectators.”
Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries with seventy-five million books in print worldwide. His books have earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many have been developed into Netflix Original Drama series, including his adaptations of ***The Stranger***, ***The Innocent***, ***Gone for Good*** and ***The Woods***.
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