Fade Away (Myron Bolitar) Mass Market Paperback – August 31, 2010

This book is one of Harlan Coben’s best. Myron Bolitar ,a sports rep faces his past.He returns to his beloved basketball court while trying to find a missing sports superstar. Win and Esperanza join the search. There are surprises in the plot and great humor with Myron and Win.This is a “stay up until you finish it book.”

Enjoyable characters. Clear plotline up to the end . Easy reading, relatable scenarios. Suspensful buildup. All the ingredients of a story well told .

Harlan Coben has done it again! His novels are the most thrilling and thought-provoking than any books that I have read. I find that once I start reading I cannot put the book down as they are that well written.

FADE AWAY is the third book in the Myron Bolitar series.It's not my favorite Harlen Coben book, but it's definitely up there.If I could, I'd give it 4 1/2 stars, docking 1/2 a star for sloppy editing. It's minor stuff, but throughout the book, the street numbers are sometimes written as numerals and at other times spelled out. For example, "Sixty-second Street" instead of "62nd St."I also wasn't too happy with the sexual promiscuity theme. The whole Thumper, Thumper-Myron, and Thumper-Win deal was unnecessary to the plot and sounded a bit preachy.Like many of the other books in the Myron Bolitar series, there's a lot on basketball and team sports in general. You kind of have to know that going in. I'm not a team-sports guy, but Coben is so passionate when he writes about basketball, I still really identify with the Myron Bolitar character. This book delves more heavily into the basketball than any other Mr. Coben has written. There are points where Myron is playing pro ball that are agonizing to read (in a good way). Myron lives in his own reality. A reality in which he can still play, but the brutal truth is flailed upon him mercilessly, and by his peers, no less.Any reader can relate to this. How many of us see ourselves as we'd like to be instead of as we actually are? I loved how he drew me into believing as Myron did, then suddenly tore me away from fantasyland so that I felt the pain like it was happening to me.Well done.Plot intensive and witty as usual, this book is a page-turner like most of Mr. Coben's novels. Bits of information revealed, but the whole truth doesn't come out until the very end.Great ending. Great book. Great read. Period.

I am a 74 year old retired psychologist and an avid reader with a passion for Myron Bolitar the hero of a series written by Harlan Coben. Fade Away, like most of the Coben books that I have read has an interesting mystery tale this time revolving around a missing basketball star player. But the stars are for his characterizations. Even the minor characters have personalities. The dialogue is sharp and witty and even when wisecrack remarks are out of place in some situations, our somewhat neurotic anti-hero becomes even more endearing, The background basketball scenes are interesting and realistic. Fade Away misses the 5 stars by having an ending that appears suddenly, almost as if the author got a bit tired so he tied up all the ends quickly and went to have a cup of coffee. But all in all Harlan Coben's understanding of people and relationships within a fast moving plot made this a terrific and fun read.

First of all, Harlen Coben is my current favorite author. I've gone through a few of his stand-alone books and watched a couple of series based on his books. He keeps me surprised and there's no end to the cliff-hangers that close every chapter.I started reading his Myron Bolitar series. Loved the first book, liked the second one, but even though I'm about 80% through Fade Away, I'm thinking that I might not bother to finish it. I might go back and read a couple more of the stand-alones.This was his second novel of 1996 and I have to wonder if he was trying to write too fast and not putting in the effort that he had with other books. There are some interesting plot lines, but it seems that most of the novel is Myron talking to people, formulating possible scenarios that would explain what happened to the missing player or other events that have been uncovered. And anyone who has read or watched any dramas knows that you're not going to find the truth until the final chapter/episode.And these conversations are just endless. "Maybe this is what happened... And if this is the case, then maybe that happened..." NO IT DID NOT!!! This is a waste of time. We're only 50% through the book and this is nothing but yet another red herring.There are a few interesting things that actually happen, but they're few and far between.

Myron and Win are at it again, solving a mystery, but this one is personal. Fast-paced with the quick wit and great characters you expect from Coben.

I always love all the twists and turns. This was another fun book. This is a good book to read in the summer or vacation.