"If something isn't aesthetically pleasing or interesting, doesn't require skills I do not have, and makes a stupid point stupidly, I don't appreciate it as art. That doesn't make me a philistine. It makes me a non-rube."

--Jonah Goldberg

Thursday, February 12, 2009

The One with Drop Shot

71. Title & Author: Drop Shot by Harlan Coben (341 pages)*
Genre: Fiction--Thriller
Completed: 25 December 2008

Summary & Review: 
Sports agent and former Fed Myron Bolitar gets wrapped up in solving the murder of a young former tennis star. As his investigation proceeds, he realizes his new star athlete is somehow deeply involved in a conspiracy that stems from more than six years previous.

While the plot to this book was pretty good, the protagonist, Myron Bolitar, was kind of strange. Here is a sports agent running around investigating a murder, even interrogating witnesses. It was just weird. This guy, in the real world, would have no jurisdiction at all and most likely the people he was talking to would have told him to get lost. Plus, what was he supposed to do when he caught the guy? It's not like he can arrest him.

Rating: 6.5
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