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Drop Shot (other)
''Drop Shot'' is a murder mystery by Harlan Coben. It is the second novel featuring Myron Bolitar. It was published in 1996. Plot A young woman is shot in cold blood, her lifeless body dumped outside the stadium at the height of the US Open. At one point, her tennis career had skyrocketed. Now headlines were being made by a different young player from the wrong side of the tracks. When Myron Bolitar investigates the killing, he uncovers a connection between the two players and a six-year-old murder at an exclusive club. Suddenly, Myron is in over his head. And with a dirty senator, a jealous mother, and the mob all drawn into the case, he finds himself playing the most dangerous game of all. Main characters *Myron Bolitar : Ex-basketball player, currently works as sports agent. Owner of MB SportReps. * Windsor "Win" Horne Lockwood, III : Myron's best friend and owner of Lock-Horne Investments & Securities. *Esperanza Diaz : one of Myron's best friends, currently working f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harlan Coben
Harlan Coben is an American writer of mystery novels and thrillers. The plots of his novels often involve the resurfacing of unresolved or misinterpreted events in the past, murders, or fatal accidents and have multiple twists. Among his novels are two series, each involving the same protagonist set in and around New York and New Jersey; some characters appear in both. Coben has won an Edgar Award, a Shamus Award, and an Anthony Award—the first author to receive all three. His books have been translated into 43 different languages and sold over 60 million copies. Early life and education Coben was born into a Jewish family in Newark, New Jersey, and was raised in Livingston, where he graduated from Livingston High School, with his childhood friend, future governor Chris Christie. He studied political science at Amherst College, where he was a member of the Psi Upsilon fraternity, along with Dan Brown. Coben was in his senior year at college when he realized he wanted to writ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Myron Bolitar
The Myron Bolitar series of thrillers are written by Harlan Coben with a series protagonist of the same name. The Myron Bolitar series debuted with ''Deal Breaker'' (1995) and is currently 11 novels through ''Home'' (2016). A spin-off young adult book series featuring Myron's nephew Mickey Bolitar was created in 2011 with the release of ''Shelter''. Windsor Horne Lockwood III, a major supporting character in Myron's series, received his own standalone novel '' Win'' in 2021. The Bolitar series of novels have garnered four major crime fiction awards for Coben: an Edgar (for ''Fade Away''), a Shamus (''Drop Shot''), an Anthony (''Deal Breaker''), and the RBA Prize for Crime Writing (''Live Wire''). Characters Myron Bolitar The series protagonist is a 31-year-old formerly renowned basketball player and is the owner of MB SportsReps (or simply MB Reps in later books), an agency representing sports stars and celebrities. Bolitar is 6 feet, 4 inches tall and considered handsome by many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
US Open (tennis)
The US Open Tennis Championships is a hardcourt tennis tournament held annually in Queens, New York. Since 1987, the US Open has been chronologically the fourth and final Grand Slam tournament of the year. The other three, in chronological order, are the Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon. The US Open starts on the last Monday of August and continues for two weeks, with the middle weekend coinciding with the US Labor Day holiday. The tournament is of one of the oldest tennis championships in the world, originally known as the U.S. National Championship, for which men's singles and men's doubles were first played in August 1881. It is the only Grand Slam that was not affected by cancellation of World War I and World War II or interrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The tournament consists of five primary championships: men's and women's singles, men's and women's doubles, and mixed doubles. The tournament also includes events for senior, junior, and wheelchair pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Windsor "Win" Horne Lockwood, III
The Myron Bolitar series of thrillers are written by Harlan Coben with a series protagonist of the same name. The Myron Bolitar series debuted with ''Deal Breaker'' (1995) and is currently 11 novels through ''Home'' (2016). A spin-off young adult book series featuring Myron's nephew Mickey Bolitar was created in 2011 with the release of ''Shelter''. Windsor Horne Lockwood III, a major supporting character in Myron's series, received his own standalone novel '' Win'' in 2021. The Bolitar series of novels have garnered four major crime fiction awards for Coben: an Edgar (for ''Fade Away''), a Shamus (''Drop Shot''), an Anthony (''Deal Breaker''), and the RBA Prize for Crime Writing (''Live Wire''). Characters Myron Bolitar The series protagonist is a 31-year-old formerly renowned basketball player and is the owner of MB SportsReps (or simply MB Reps in later books), an agency representing sports stars and celebrities. Bolitar is 6 feet, 4 inches tall and considered handsome by ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esperanza Diaz
The Myron Bolitar series of thrillers are written by Harlan Coben with a series protagonist of the same name. The Myron Bolitar series debuted with ''Deal Breaker'' (1995) and is currently 11 novels through ''Home'' (2016). A spin-off young adult book series featuring Myron's nephew Mickey Bolitar was created in 2011 with the release of ''Shelter''. Windsor Horne Lockwood III, a major supporting character in Myron's series, received his own standalone novel '' Win'' in 2021. The Bolitar series of novels have garnered four major crime fiction awards for Coben: an Edgar (for ''Fade Away''), a Shamus (''Drop Shot''), an Anthony (''Deal Breaker''), and the RBA Prize for Crime Writing (''Live Wire''). Characters Myron Bolitar The series protagonist is a 31-year-old formerly renowned basketball player and is the owner of MB SportsReps (or simply MB Reps in later books), an agency representing sports stars and celebrities. Bolitar is 6 feet, 4 inches tall and considered handsome by man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jessica Culver
The Myron Bolitar series of thrillers are written by Harlan Coben with a series protagonist of the same name. The Myron Bolitar series debuted with ''Deal Breaker'' (1995) and is currently 11 novels through ''Home'' (2016). A spin-off young adult book series featuring Myron's nephew Mickey Bolitar was created in 2011 with the release of ''Shelter''. Windsor Horne Lockwood III, a major supporting character in Myron's series, received his own standalone novel '' Win'' in 2021. The Bolitar series of novels have garnered four major crime fiction awards for Coben: an Edgar (for ''Fade Away''), a Shamus (''Drop Shot''), an Anthony (''Deal Breaker''), and the RBA Prize for Crime Writing (''Live Wire''). Characters Myron Bolitar The series protagonist is a 31-year-old formerly renowned basketball player and is the owner of MB SportsReps (or simply MB Reps in later books), an agency representing sports stars and celebrities. Bolitar is 6 feet, 4 inches tall and considered handsome by man ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Novels By Harlan Coben
A novel is a relatively long work of narrative fiction, typically written in prose and published as a book. The present English word for a long work of prose fiction derives from the for "new", "news", or "short story of something new", itself from the la, novella, a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning "new". Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, John Cowper Powys, preferred the term "romance" to describe their novels. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, in Chivalric romance, and in the tradition of the Italian renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, especially the histo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 American Novels
File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 800, causing the plane to crash and killing everyone on board; Eight people 1996 Mount Everest disaster, die in a blizzard on Mount Everest; Dolly (sheep), Dolly the Sheep becomes the first mammal to have been cloned from an adult somatic cell; The Port Arthur massacre (Australia), Port Arthur Massacre occurs on Tasmania, and leads to major changes in Gun laws of Australia, Australia's gun laws; Macarena, sung by Los del Río and remixed by The Bayside Boys, becomes a major dance craze and cultural phenomenon; Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 crash-ditches off of the Comoros Islands after the plane was Aircraft hijacking, hijacked; the 1996 Summer Olympics are held in Atlanta, marking the Centennial (100th Anniversary) of the modern Olympic Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Sports Novels
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
