Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar) | Harlan Coben | How Far Would You Go For Your Family?

Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar) | Harlan Coben | A PRETTY GOOD READ

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	Darkest Fear (Myron Bolitar) Harlan Coben Dell, 2001 - 352 pages average customer review:based on 69 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Edgar Award-winner Harlan Coben brings us his most astonishing?and deeply personal?novel yet. And it all begins when Myron Bolitar's ex tells him he's a father ... of a dying thirteen-year-old boy.

Myron never saw it coming. A surprise visit from an ex-girlfriend is unsettling enough. But Emily Downing's news brings him to his knees. Her son Jeremy is dying and needs a bone-marrow transplant?from a donor who has vanished without a trace. Then comes the real shocker: The boy is Myron's son, conceived the night before her wedding to another man.

Staggered by the news, Myron plunges into a search for the missing donor. But finding him means cracking open a dark mystery that involves a broken family, a brutal kidnapping spree, and the FBI. Somewhere in the sordid mess is the donor who disappeared. And as doubts emerge about Jeremy's true paternity, a child vanishes, igniting a chain reaction of heartbreaking truth and chilling revelation.

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How Far Would You Go For Your Family?

Darkest Fear is the 6th and most recent Myron Bolitar story and it starts with a whopper of a revelation. Myron learns from an ex-girlfriend that he is the father of her 13 year old son. If that wasn't enough, the boy is in desperate need of a bone marrow transplant and will die without one. A matching donor was found in the national registry, but no one can locate him and Myron is in a race against the clock to find this mystery man before his son dies.

At a time when MB SportReps is still reeling from the clients it lost while Myron was secluding himself on a Caribbeanisland, Myron must balance the need to keep his business afloat with the frantic search for the man who holds the key to his son's future. While trying to contact the man, Myron stumbles across a serial killer that the FBI has been searching for. He gets involved in the search and meets a journalist who claims to have interviewed the man but refuses to reveal his identity. Is this killer somehow linked to the marrow donor than Myron so desperately needs to find?

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A PRETTY GOOD READ

This was as expected. A pretty good read for those of us who like these types of books.

Not my Favorite Bolitar Book, but a Good Read

As I've stated in other reviews, I'm a big fan of Harlan Coben, who I consider one of the best suspense writers in the business. Although Coben is best known for his standalone thrillers, he has also written a well-received series involving Myron Bolitar, a sports agent who solves crimes. DARKEST FEAR is the seventh book in the series, and it's an okay read.

DARKEST FEAR is good, but nearly as strong as the two books that came before it, ONE FALSE MOVE and THE FINAL DETAIL. The plot is too outlandish and dramatic for its own good, and involves a major coincidence (a serial killer connected to a bone marrow donor connected to a boy who may or may not be Myron Bolitar's son) that would never happen in real life.

The plot of DARKEST FEAR is also too convoluted for its own good, especially toward the end, when Coben tries too insert a few twists too many. I enjoy plot twists in a book, but an overabundance of them can ruin the natural flow of a story, which is pretty much what happens here. Coben is justifiably famous for his multi-layered plots, which sometimes work brilliantly (TELL NO ONE, GONE FOR GOOD, and ONE FALSE MOVE) and sometimes feel labored and contrived (BACK SPIN, THE WOODS). I would put DARKEST FEAR in the latter category.

Still, this is a highly enjoyable book, because Coben's writing style is so naturally entertaining and funny. Put simply, a subpar effort from Coben is still better than ninety-five percent of the suspense novels out there. He's that good. As a result, I have no problems recommending DARKEST FEAR. Just don't make it your first Bolitar book -- my advice is to read the series in order to maximize your enjoyment.

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Does The Means Justify The End?

You will be asking yourself this by the time you get done this story. Myron must use some ruthless tactics in this one to try and save a person's life and this person is very important to him. Of course ruthless is Win's middle name and he has no remorse when it comes to dealing with evil with his Sixth Degree Black Belt mind and body.

The reason that I gave this story a three is because it's slow first half and lack of action. I like more action with a mystery such as this one. The end is very good and kept me guessing. I like the characters in this series, but they were all a little dull.

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"Darkest Fear" by Harlan Coben

I have only recently started reading Harlan Corben(s) books, and this is the second of the Myron Bolitar searies. Fun tongue-n-cheek writing, with great twists. I liked "Promise Me" better. When stumped for a good page turner to buy, Mr. Corben is on my best bet list, along with Joseph Finder, Peter Straub, Richard Preston and of course Stephen King.

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