Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} by Book review: Live Wire by Harlan Coben. Following an explosive row, the siblings have been estranged for the past 15 years. His brother’s story is also entangled with the disappearance of Lex Ryder, the less charismatic half of successful rock band HorsePower. Ryder, on the brink of fatherhood for the fi rst time, has vanished after somebody posted an internet message questioning his unborn child’s true paternity. As Coben has Bolitar pull at the threads of this story, a tale of intrigue and chicanery emerges. As ever, Bolitar and his vibrant team are the true stars. There is the disarmingly named Windsor Horne Lockwood III, Esperanza, the glamour girl of Flow (the Fabulous Ladies Of Wrestling) and Big Cindi, who defi es description other than to say: only in America. The opening feels a lot like running in deep snow as Coben lays out the Bolitar family history for new readers but they should persevere and there’s no need to start with , the first Bolitar book, to enjoy Live Wire. Once the story landscape is established, the narrative starts moving at Usain Bolt pace. So Coben does not disappoint even if his ending leaves Bolitar’s future unclear. Of late, two writers have displayed the curious combination of cruelty and kindness required to kill off a much-loved character in a bestselling series. First Ian Rankin retired Rebus from active service and Henning Mankell quietly drew a curtain across Wallander’s final years. Their decisions were cruel because they deprived those customers, whose hard-earned and carefully spent pounds have enriched them, of hours of new reading pleasures; kind because if the authorial well of inspiration later runs dry then readers are saved the disappointment of dashed expectations. So I can only conclude that Harlan Coben must be a sadistic brute. By the end of Live Wire his loyal band of readers are left suspended, uncertain whether they will enjoy another entertaining episode or whether this is the last of Bolitar and his colourful support crew. There isn’t any other set of characters in this genre out there like them. You will be loath to return to black-and-white once you have experienced Technicolor. . Comments Unavailable. Sorry, we are unable to accept comments about this article at the moment. However, you will find some great articles which you can comment on right now in our Comment section. Live Wire — Harlan Coben. When former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off. Suzze, who is eight months pregnant, asks their agent, Myron Bolitar, to save her marriage -- and perhaps her husband's life. But when Myron finds Lex, he also finds someone he wasn't looking for: his sister-in-law, Kitty, who, along with Myron's brother, abandoned the Bolitar family long ago. As Myron races to locate his missing brother while their father clings to life, he must face the lies that led to the estrangement -- including the ones told by Myron himself. Live Wire : Book summary and reviews of Live Wire by Harlan Coben. Myron Bolitar has always dreamed about the voluptuous femme fatale walking into his office and asking for help. The woman standing in his doorway has killer curves, all right: She's eight months pregnant, which kind of ruins the fantasy. Former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, are both clients, and over the years Myron has negotiated his share of contracts for the power pair. But now Lex has disappeared and a very pregnant Suzze is in tears, fearing the online rumors questioning the baby's paternity have driven away the man she swears is the child's father. For Myron, questions of fatherhood couldn't hit closer to , as his dad, Al, clings to life, and the brother who abandoned the family years ago resurfaces - with danger following close behind. Myron is soon forced to confront deep secrets in Suzze's past, his family's mortality - and before Live Wire is over, his own. Reviews "Beyond the Book" articles Free books to read and review (US only) Find books by time period, setting & theme Read-alike suggestions by book and author Book club discussions and much more! Just $12 for 3 months or $39 for a year. Reviews. Media Reviews. "Myron tackles a different sort of hidden mysteries—those deeply embedded within himself and other family members. Fans will enjoy the change of focus and wonder how Coben will re-create his hero in his next adventure." - Library Journal. "Starred Review. This explosively fast thriller will leave fans clamoring for more." - Publishers Weekly. "[T]his is the most conventional of Myron's recent cases, heavy with cheesy cliffhangers and eye-popping coincidences." - Kirkus. This information about Live Wire shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's membership magazine, and in our weekly "Publishing This Week" newsletter. In most cases, the reviews are necessarily limited to those that were available to us ahead of publication. If you are the publisher or author and feel that the reviews shown do not properly reflect the range of media opinion now available, please send us a message with the mainstream media reviews that you would like to see added. Any "Author Information" displayed below reflects the author's biography at the time this particular book was published. Reader Reviews. FictionZeal. Live Wire (Myron Bolitar #10) by Harlan Coben At the open, Myron’s father is in the hospital in serious condition and Myron reflects back upon a lie he told his father many years before. That lie becomes his focus for at least part of the story. His client in this edition is Suzze T, a tennis great. She’s been on the sidelines recently because she’s eight months pregnant. She’s married to Lex, a rock star and also a client of Myron’s. He’s gone missing since someone maliciously posted on Suzze’s Facebook page that the baby is not his. What begins as a search for Lex becomes mixed with the return of Myron’s drug-addicted sister-in-law, Kitty, and the continued absence of his brother, Brad. Before long, it appears that it may all be related. If there is a silver lining for Myron, it is that he finally meets his fifteen-year-old nephew, Mickey, for the first time. However, that first meeting was anything but pleasant. There are a lot of secrets being held by all parties. Myron has to wade through what is truth and what is a lie. As the danger level rises, he pulls in Windsor () Horne Lockwood, III, his preppy-looking friend who is a sixth-degree black belt holder in Tae Kwon Do. This is the 10th and as far as I can tell the final Myron Bolitar novel. I say that with sadness because I have loved the Myron series. I’ve loved the development of the main characters over time. The reason I tend to think it is the last is because there have been no new offerings in this series since this one which was published in 2011. Also the ending, which I obviously cannot give away, had a different and almost a final closure to it. Now, if readers need their ‘Myron fix’, they need to continue reading Coben’s YA Mickey Bolitar series. Myron makes appearances in the Mickey series. I’ll miss the mixture of those lovable and true-to-life characters, Win, Esperanza, Big Cyndi, and even Zorra. Rating: 4 out of 5. Reviews "Beyond the Book" articles Free books to read and review (US only) Find books by time period, setting & theme Read-alike suggestions by book and author Book club discussions and much more! Just $12 for 3 months or $39 for a year. Author Information. Harlan Coben Author Biography. Harlan Coben was born and raised in New Jersey. After graduating from Amherst College as political science major, he worked in the travel industry. He now lives in New Jersey with his wife, Anne Armstrong-Coben MD, a pediatrician, and their four children. Coben is the first author to win all three of the most coveted literary awards: the Edgar Award, Shamus Award and Anthony Award. His books include the , as well as other standalone novels, including , Miracle Cure. , , , , The Innocent, The Wods, , and . Harlan Coben's books have been published in more than twenty-two languages. Live Wire. Review : Myron Bolitar must look to his own past — both professionally and personally — when a former client shows up asking for his help in identifying someone who claims the father of the baby she's carrying is not her husband in Live Wire , the tenth mystery in this series by Harlan Coben. Suzze Tervantino, now retired but a tennis sensation when she was a teenager 10 years earlier, and who was among Bolitar's first clients when he started his agency, is eight months pregnant when she visits his office to ask if he would be the godfather to her baby. But she also asks for his help: she believes someone is trying to destroy her marriage to rock star Lex Ryder by posting a message on her Facebook page that Lex isn't the father of her unborn child. Worse, Lex seems to believe it may be true and has taken off. Bolitar tracks him down to a nightclub, where he spots his sister-in-law Kitty, a woman he hasn't seen in over 16 years, since he and his brother Brad had a falling out over Brad marrying her. Bolitar chases after her, but loses her in the crush of the club's crowd. This chance sighting, however, leads to a cascading set of events that seem to spiral out of control as Bolitar tries to reconcile the improbable coincidence that Kitty and Lex were in the same club at the same time, two people who shouldn't, under normal circumstances, have even known each other in the first place. When Bolitar catches up with the rock star a day later, Lex has some sage advice for him: "You keep wanting to fix things, but the world has a certain ebb and flow. You screw with it, you just make it worse. It isn't always your fight, Myron." But Bolitar doesn't let go, especially after Suzze T. is found dead of an overdose. There isn't much of a plot to Live Wire … at least not initially. Bolitar quickly determines who wrote the message on Suzze T.'s Facebook page, informs her, she's not surprised, case closed. Indeed, for the first half of the book, nothing much happens and the narrative sort of aimlessly meanders. Some readers may opt to put the book down at this point, but that would be a mistake. Like picking at a loose thread on a carefully constructed garment — a plot thread in a mystery, in this case — the story starts to unravel (in a good way) at about the mid-point of the book as Bolitar continues to ask questions. His investigation takes some unexpected turns along the way, the excitement level ramping up significantly into the second half, which has an intensity that more than makes up for the slow start. Bolitar's best friend, Win, is at his side throughout, and is both charming and annoying, a characteristic that typically means he's made an impression on readers, never a bad thing. On balance, Live Wire is a terrific, well-crafted entry in this series … though one has to wonder why, with all the information technology that Bolitar (and, by extension, Win) has at his fingertips, he couldn't have figured out the book's final twist with a quick database search. (Note: The final sentence in this review differs slightly from the one originally published, and was changed after the reviewer was advised that an assumption made with respect to the final twist was incorrect, rendering the original text invalid in that context.) Acknowledgment: Penguin Group provided a copy of Live Wire for this review. Review Copyright © 2011 — Hidden Staircase Mystery Books — All Rights Reserved. Selected reviews of other mysteries by this author … Dutton (Hardcover), March 2009 ISBN-13: 9780525951056; ISBN-10: 0525951059. Six Years Dutton (Hardcover), March 2013 ISBN-13: 9780525953487; ISBN-10: 0525953485. Location(s) referenced in Live Wire : New Jersey. Live Wire by Harlan Coben — A Myron Bolitar Mystery. Publisher: Dutton Format: Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-0-525-95206-0 Publication Date: March 2011 List Price: $27.95. Mysterious Reviews is a Division of The Hidden Staircase Mystery Books and a Business Unit of the Omnimystery Family of Mystery Websites. [PDF] Live Wire Book (Myron Bolitar) Free Download (371 pages) Free download or read online Live Wire pdf (ePUB) (Myron Bolitar Series) book. The first edition of the novel was published in 2011, and was written by Harlan Coben. The book was published in multiple languages including English, consists of 371 pages and is available in Hardcover format. The main characters of this mystery, fiction story are Myron Bolitar, Terese Collins. The book has been awarded with Premio Internacional RBA de Novela Negra (2010), and many others. Suggested PDF: Found by Harlan Coben pdf. Live Wire PDF Details. Author: Harlan Coben Original Title: Live Wire Book Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 371 pages First Published in: 2011 Latest Edition: March 22nd 2011 Series: Myron Bolitar #10 Language: English Awards: Premio Internacional RBA de Novela Negra (2010) Main Characters: Myron Bolitar, Terese Collins, Esperanza Diaz, Windsor "Win" Horne Lockwood, III, Mickey Bolitar category: mystery, fiction, thriller, mystery, crime, suspense, thriller, mystery thriller, adult, audiobook, contemporary, adult fiction Formats: ePUB(Android), audible mp3, audiobook and kindle. The translated version of this book is available in Spanish, English, Chinese, Russian, Hindi, Bengali, Arabic, Portuguese, Indonesian / Malaysian, French, Japanese, German and many others for free download. Please note that the tricks or techniques listed in this pdf are either fictional or claimed to work by its creator. We do not guarantee that these techniques will work for you. Some of the techniques listed in Live Wire may require a sound knowledge of Hypnosis, users are advised to either leave those sections or must have a basic understanding of the subject before practicing them. DMCA and Copyright : The book is not hosted on our servers, to remove the file please contact the source url. If you see a Google Drive link instead of source url, means that the file witch you will get after approval is just a summary of original book or the file has been already removed. LIVE WIRE. A client’s case of online harassment brings the chickens home to roost for agent Myron Bolitar and his whole family. Retired tennis star Suzze T (née Trevantino) is so happy about her pregnancy that she can’t understand why one of her virtual friends would post “NOT HIS” on her Facebook page. She swears that the father really is her husband Lex Ryder, the Australian-born rocker who’s been the public face of the band HorsePower ever since a lurid scandal involving 16-year-old Alista Snow sent HorsePower front man Gabriel Wire into seclusion over a decade ago. Now Suzze wants Myron to unmask the false friend who questioned Lex’s paternity and bring her runaway husband, who didn’t take the rumor well at all, back home. It isn’t long before Myron, frequently bailed out by his bionic preppy sidekick Win Lockwood, has identified the rogue poster. Instead of resolving Suzze’s domestic problems, however, the revelation just drags Myron’s own family—his estranged brother Brad, Brad’s wife Kitty and their son Mickey—into them, along with another notable family, the mobbed-up Ache brothers. How deep can Myron dig without running afoul of fearsome Herman Ache? And how deep does he want to dig when the results threaten his own parents’ peace of mind and his possible détente with the brother he hasn’t seen for 15 years? Despite the promise of dark family secrets, this is the most conventional of Myron’s recent cases ( Long Lost, 2009, etc.), heavy with cheesy cliffhangers and eye-popping coincidences. Fans will be rewarded by the nonstop plot twists Coben must have patented. Pub Date: March 22, 2011. ISBN: 978-0-525-95206-0. Page Count: 384. Publisher: Dutton. Review Posted Online: April 4, 2011. Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2011. Share your opinion of this book. Did you like this book? More by Harlan Coben. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. New York Times Bestseller. DEVOLUTION. by Max Brooks ‧ RELEASE DATE: June 16, 2020. Are we not men? We are—well, ask Bigfoot, as Brooks does in this delightful yarn, following on his bestseller World War Z (2006). A zombie apocalypse is one thing. A volcanic eruption is quite another, for, as the journalist who does a framing voice-over narration for Brooks’ latest puts it, when Mount Rainier popped its cork, “it was the psychological aspect, the hyperbole-fueled hysteria that had ended up killing the most people.” Maybe, but the sasquatches whom the volcano displaced contributed to the statistics, too, if only out of self-defense. Brooks places the epicenter of the Bigfoot war in a high-tech hideaway populated by the kind of people you might find in a Jurassic Park franchise: the schmo who doesn’t know how to do much of anything but tries anyway, the well-intentioned bleeding heart, the know-it-all intellectual who turns out to know the wrong things, the immigrant with a tough backstory and an instinct for survival. Indeed, the novel does double duty as a survival manual, packed full of good advice—for instance, try not to get wounded, for “injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you.” Brooks presents a case for making room for Bigfoot in the world while peppering his narrative with timely social criticism about bad behavior on the human side of the conflict: The explosion of Rainier might have been better forecast had the president not slashed the budget of the U.S. Geological Survey, leading to “immediate suspension of the National Volcano Early Warning System,” and there’s always someone around looking to monetize the natural disaster and the sasquatch-y onslaught that follows. Brooks is a pro at building suspense even if it plays out in some rather spectacularly yucky episodes, one involving a short spear that takes its name from “the sucking sound of pulling it out of the dead man’s heart and lungs.” Grossness aside, it puts you right there on the scene. A tasty, if not always tasteful, tale of supernatural mayhem that fans of King and Crichton alike will enjoy. Pub Date: June 16, 2020. ISBN: 978-1-9848-2678-7. Page Count: 304. Publisher: Del Rey/Ballantine. Review Posted Online: Feb. 10, 2020. Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2020. Share your opinion of this book. Did you like this book? More by Max Brooks. More About This Book. Dark and unsettling, this novel’s end arrives abruptly even as readers are still moving at a breakneck speed. THEN SHE WAS GONE. by Lisa Jewell ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 24, 2018. Ten years after her teenage daughter went missing, a mother begins a new relationship only to discover she can't truly move on until she answers lingering questions about the past. Laurel Mack’s life stopped in many ways the day her 15-year-old daughter, Ellie, left the house to study at the library and never returned. She drifted away from her other two children, Hanna and Jake, and eventually she and her husband, Paul, divorced. Ten years later, Ellie’s remains and her backpack are found, though the police are unable to determine the reasons for her disappearance and death. After Ellie’s funeral, Laurel begins a relationship with Floyd, a man she meets in a cafe. She's disarmed by Floyd’s charm, but when she meets his young daughter, Poppy, Laurel is startled by her resemblance to Ellie. As the novel progresses, Laurel becomes increasingly determined to learn what happened to Ellie, especially after discovering an odd connection between Poppy’s mother and her daughter even as her relationship with Floyd is becoming more serious. Jewell’s ( I Found You , 2017, etc.) latest thriller moves at a brisk pace even as she plays with narrative structure: The book is split into three sections, including a first one which alternates chapters between the time of Ellie’s disappearance and the present and a second section that begins as Laurel and Floyd meet. Both of these sections primarily focus on Laurel. In the third section, Jewell alternates narrators and moments in time: The narrator switches to alternating first-person points of view (told by Poppy’s mother and Floyd) interspersed with third-person narration of Ellie’s experiences and Laurel’s discoveries in the present. All of these devices serve to build palpable tension, but the structure also contributes to how deeply disturbing the story becomes. At times, the characters and the emotional core of the events are almost obscured by such quick maneuvering through the weighty plot. Dark and unsettling, this novel’s end arrives abruptly even as readers are still moving at a breakneck speed.