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Play Dead 1990 Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book This is Harlan Coben's first published novel so you have to give a little leeway here!. Miracle Cure 1991 Click On

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Introduction

My website, www.ianrodwell-limited.com launched on 01 February 2012 (1-2-12), although I did a couple of “trial” blog posts before this I passionately want to help people live much more fulfilling working lives I want them to get out of the bed in the morning enthused and fired up ready to enjoy their working day and have fun I call this state “Working Wow!” and I have been enjoying this working life experience for years now I want to share it with you

As many of you may know, getting a website set up takes a bit of knowledge

to do, you need to spend a little cash and get a little help I knew nothing on

07 November 2011 on how to do this but I got it up and running by 01 February 2012, the date I had set myself Thanks in no small part to Chris Farrell

However, the next task is to drive traffic to your website I got some help from the teachings of the wonderful Kim Roach

Part of my training prior to Chris Farrell was to get a blog up and running through the free programme called Blogger (go to www.blogger.com) and I set up a blog initially around 2008 called “Rod the Blog” where I initially started to put in posts about my life If I recall correctly I only posted about four posts and I did not really know what I was doing One of the posts recounted how I had Christmas lunch one year in Dubai with the ex-Manchester United football Denis Irwin I thought that would draw in the crowds It didn’t

My interest was reawakened in the blogging world one day when I was just mooching around the internet I found some videos on You Tube and a great guy who had a website called Recognized Expert hosted by a nice chap called Bob Sommers I went over to the website and just for signing up I got access to 118 videos about Blogger These were all pretty short, about 5 minute duration and I lapped them up each lunchtime on the laptop

With a few days I decided I had learned enough to revamp and reinvigorate

my blog to one about book reviews Hence Rod the Blog became a book review website and I concentrated on my favourite authors

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One of these favourite authors is Harlan Coben I kept seeing Harlan’s name keep cropping up in other people’s forums (particularly Michael Connelly’s) and I decided to check his novels out I really loved the humour and I soon became hooked on the Myron Bolitar novels and the characters in them too Eccentric but very well plotted and written

I soon read my way through all of his novels and of course I added my reviews of his novels to Rod the Blog You will certainly enjoy reading the Harlan Coben novels that is for sure, and he would be in my Top 10 authors too

As I said at the start of this introduction, I am now the proud owner of a fully-fledged website that promotes my Working Wow message As a consequence of this website taking up most of my spare time, I have sadly abandoned Rod the Blog pretty much However I thought it a shame just to let the book reviews just sit there gathering internet dust Therefore I have combined these reviews into EBooks that I will use to publicise my website

Therefore I would ask that you help me to publicise my website by telling anyone who you think would be interested in the reviews or would like to learn how to have an enhanced Working Wow life

Thank you all so much for your support

01 May 2012

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This eBook is one of a series that I have produced from my Rod the Blog blog posts The series is as follows (all available at my website):

 David Baldacci and I (Book Reviews)

 Dick Francis and I (Book Reviews)

 James Patterson and I (Book Reviews)

 Jeffrey Archer and I (Book Reviews)

 Kathy Reichs and I (Book Reviews)

 Lee Child and I (Book Reviews)

 Michael Connelly and I (Book Reviews)

 Patricia Cornwell and I (Book Reviews)

 Robert Crais and I (Book Reviews)

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Recommended author Harlan Coben on Rod The Blog

I am about halfway through reading the novels of Harlan Coben I found it a little hard to get into the first Myron Bolitar one but now I am hooked I read these in paperback or on Kindle on the computer

I can now highly recommend these novels They are thriller mystery novels that are often funny and addictive The Myron Bolitar ones (there are nine published so far) are great, you really get into the characters and the off the wall humour

As I am English and not from the USA I am also getting to understand a bit about American culture such as Yoo Hoo etc.!!!!

Worth reading if you like thriller or mystery books

Harlan Coben Website

(The above published on Rod the Blog on 14 March 2011)

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Play Dead (1990)

Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book

This is Harlan Coben's first published novel so you have to give a little leeway here! If you want to read all of his novels then you are going to read it anyway As a novel it is not great but it is nice to see how much someone learns as Harlan Coben very soon becomes a good then a great writer with later novels

Having written that it is a readable novel and the plot is a trifle implausible but you can identify with the characters and appreciate the story as it unfolds The world of basketball is well portrayed (I think!) and the dynamics of the Baskin’s marriage and Laura's career too is interesting

Only a 5/10 for this one for me

Miracle Cure (1991)

This is one of the early Harlan Coben novels and he makes excuses for it in his introduction This is a little unfair as it is quite readable if not as good as his Myron Bolitar novels etc I read it in three days so that is a pretty good sign that it is OK However, having written that it is really only a novel for the people (like me) who want to read all of Harlan Coben's novels

The book is set in the medical world and the thirst for research dollars and the conflicts that exist there The characters are likeable and fairly real The plot is reasonably good and the pages for me kept turning relatively quickly

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The fun part of the novel for me was that as it was written in the early 1990's the perception of AIDs was really quite strange looking at it now from 20 years later The gay tag has definitely gone from this subject Also the lack of mobile phones and the use of pagers for me was a fairly short lived era

6/10 for me

Deal Breaker (1995)

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Was so glad that I stumbled upon Harlan Coben novels and the Myron Bolitar series in particular Read one of the stand-alone novels first and then moved

on to read about Myron People say you should never judge a book by its cover but I did with Harlan Coben and I am very glad that ignored this old saying

Myron is a Sports Representative and when Myron's prize client gets a phone call from his girlfriend who everyone thinks is dead, his dealings with his star start to go off track Myron tries to investigate this sudden reappearance of the girlfriend and strays into the dark side of the sports world Sex, blackmail and a family tragedy are all in play Lies and half-truths keep the plot boiling

A good start to the series to get you hooked 8/10

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Drop Shot (1996)

Myron Bolitar 2

A once big tennis star is shot and dropped outside a stadium During the height of the US Open another tennis star is on the rise Represented by Myron Bolitar

Myron investigates the murder and finds out that his client and the victim are connected This leads him back into a murder in the tennis world from six years earlier

Myron soon becomes involved in matters of life and death with the mob on his tale and a strange mother in the mix too

Gets an 8/10 from me

Fade Away (1996)

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Myron Bolitar, Sports Representative, ex-basketball star and ex-FBI man is set

to find Greg Downing Greg is the husband of one of Myron's old loves and they were also big rivals on the basketball court before Myron received an injury that ended his professional career

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The team boss wants Myron to find Greg before the media finds out he is missing A mystery unfolds when Myron finds blood in Greg's basement and the finds the body of a woman The mystery begins to unfold in earnest

Myron has to revisit his past and survive violent encounters before he finally gets all the pieces to the mystery

8/10 from me

Back Spin (1997)

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A boy from the rich streets is last seen on the less luxurious side of town and then disappears He is the son of one of Myron's major clients and Myron's top priority is to track him down and bring him back to his family

Myron is faced with villains and liars from both the rich and poor parts of town Myron has to pull out all the stops to unravel the mysteries that he is faced with

A good read 8/10

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One False Move (1998)

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Myron's life is going along just fine as a Sports Rep Then he meets a bright young female sports star She has lost her agent and then her father disappears The mafia begin to close in on her too

There is more to this glitzy sports star than meets the eye and Myron soon becomes involved up to his neck and beyond

My rating 7/10

The Final Detail (1999)

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Myron is not having a great life at the start of this book And then it gets worse! His heart has been broken and he is recuperating with a passionate woman he barely knows on a tropical island

His strange friend Win turns up out of the blue and informs him that Esperanza (his business partner) has been accused of murdering one of their clients Esperanza does not tell Myron what has happened and he has to find out for himself

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Why did a washed up pitcher get a place with the New York Yankees? What happened twelve years ago in Myron's past that has now come back to haunt him?

A strain on relations with Esperanza, how does Myron smooth this out and right their worlds? Well, you need to read the novel to find out

Bang on form 9/10

Darkest Fear (2000)

Myron Bolitar number 7

Myron is shocked into finding out that he has a teenage son The son needs a bone marrow transplant A donor has been found but has now disappeared

Myron is on the case of course in a desperate search to find the donor This however leads to more problems involving kidnapping and sailing close to the wind with the FBI

The plot unfolds and you feel for Myron Great to be in Myron Bolitar world with Win, Little Pocahontas and Big Cyndi etc

9/10 for me

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Tell No One (2001)

A chilling novel by Harlan Coben that has you turning the pages An event eight years previously comes back to haunt David Beck His wife had been killed by a vicious attack but here she was trying to contact him

He tries to follow the clues to see whether she exists in fact or not The FBI is also involved and tries and pin his wife's murder on him too Despite this hindrance, David Beck continues to press on to find out the truth

The truth inevitably turns out to be something different to what you expect This novel gets an 8/10 from me

Gone For Good (2002)

A murder eleven years previously led to the alleged killer absconding and he

is never contacted again His brother Will gets on with his life and he has a lovely girlfriend called Sheila Then his mother tells him on her deathbed that his brother is still alive

Then Sheila disappears

Will starts to chase after Sheila and searches for his brother too Sheila's past is not what Will thought was the truth As the plot unfolds the two events become intertwined

A fantastic novel 9/10

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No Second Chance (2003)

This is an excellent book (as usual) from Harlan Coben You feel for the main character Marc as he recovers from a shooting where his wife was killed and his baby daughter goes missing Handovers of ransom money go wrong, and

he becomes the chief suspect

Two really nasty psychotics are the abductors Coben adds to the pot by introducing Marc's helper from the FBI called Rachel who has issues of her own She too brings some enemies with her as well

Fantastic stuff 8/10

Just One Look (2004)

I really enjoyed reading this novel on my Kindle A stand-alone book of Harlan Coben's and not one of the Myron Bolitar series

A mystery where a photograph from the past, people leaving prison and other events start a chain of events in people's lives in the present The mystery is kept under wraps right to the end, with several twists and turns on the way

Found the chief hitman, Mr Wu, particularly sinister

A good stand-alone novel and I would give this 8/10

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The Innocent (2005)

A great stand-alone novel by Harlan Coben The tale of an ordinary guy who gets involved in a fight and accidentally kills the other man He serves his time and when he comes out he meets the love of his life She gets pregnant,

he is about to move home and he seems now set for life

However, all is not what it appears with his wife She is pulled back into her past life Will Matt and Olivia survive all the challenges that they are subjected to? Who are the good guys? Will good triumph over evil?

I really enjoyed this novel, 9/10 from me

Promise Me (2006)

Myron Bolitar book 8

The Myron Bolitar series are my favourite books of the moment, although the Harlan Coben stand-alone novels are generally great too

This novel comes after quite a gap in time since the book 7, six years in fact

In the interim Myron appears to have had a quiet life doing his day job of Sports Rep

This all changes in this great novel He tries to protect a friend's daughter by offering her a lift home to shield her from abductors and drunk drivers He is persuaded not to drop her back at her parents but at another address

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