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Le point de vue de l'éditeur Dans le monde du tennis professionnel, certains n'hésitent pas à remplacer la balle jaune par une autre d'un plus petit calibre aux effets mortels. Comme celle qui a mis définitivement fin à la carrière de l'ancienne championne Valérie Simpson, par exemple. Pour l'agent sportif Myron Bolitar, c'est une nouvelle enquête semée d'embûches qui commence. Qui avait intérêt à tuer Valérie ? Et pourquoi celle-ci a-t-elle cherché à le joindre la veille de son assassinat, après un long silence ? Quel rapport enfin entre elle et le protégé de Myron, Duane Richwood, la star montante de la raquette américaine ? Personne ne semble très enclin à répondre à ces questions. Alors quand la mafia et un sénateur véreux s'en mêlent, Myron comprend que le jeu va être décisif...
Myron Bolitar ! Y en a pas deux comme lui. D'agent du FBI à agent sportif, la reconversion aurait dû être facile. Erreur. Son nouveau job n'est pas de tout repos non plus. Même le tennis peut s'avérer dangereux : toutes les balles ne sont pas amorties et certaines sont mortelles... C'est le cas pour Valérie Simpson, ex-star de la raquette, frappée en plein coeur au milieu des milliers de spectateurs de l'US Open. Myron devrait se contenter de la version officielle : "balle perdue". Sauf que la veille, Valérie a tenté de le joindre. A peine sortie d'un hôpital psychiatrique, que voulait-elle lui dire ?
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Mystery, Sports agents, Crimes against, Fiction, Women tennis players, Myron Bolitar (Fictitious character), Large type books, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Detective and mystery stories, Tennis, Tournaments, Mystery fiction, Tenis, Novela, Torneos, Novela policiaca, U.S. Open (Tennis tournament), U.S. Open (Tennis tournament) fast (OCoLC)fst01733629, Bolitar, Myron (Fictitious character) -- Fiction., Women tennis players -- Crimes against -- Fiction., Sports agents -- Fiction., U.S. Open Championships, New York, N.Y., V leposlovju, Tekmovanja, Umori, Fiction, crime, United states, fiction, Bolitar, myron (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, thrillers, suspense, Fiction, thrillers, crime, Fiction, mystery & detective, private investigators, Fiction, thrillers, domestic, Sports, Joueuses de tennis, Romans, nouvelles, Crimes contre, Tournois, Agents d'affaires (Sports), nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-fiction=2022-04-03, New York Times bestseller, New york (n.y.), fictionPlaces
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Valerie Simpson is a young female tennis star with a troubled past who's now on the verge of a comeback and wants Myron as her agent. Myron, who's also got the hottest young male tennis star, Duane Richwood, primed to take his first grand slam tournament, couldn't be happier. That is, until Valerie is murdered in broad daylight at the U.S. Open and Myron's number one client becomes the number one suspect.Clearing Duane's name should be easy enough. Duane was playing in a match at the time of Valerie's death. But why is his phone number in Valerie's black book when he claims only to have known her in passing? Why was she calling him from a phone booth on the street? The police stop caring once they pin the murder on a man known for having stalked Valerie and seen talking to her moments before the murder. But Myron isn't satisfied. It seems too clean for him.Myron pries a bit and finds himself prying open the past where six years before, Valerie's fiancee, the son of a senator, was brutally murdered by a juvenile delinquent and a straight-A student was subsequently gunned down on the street in retaliation, his death squandered in bureaucratic files. And everyone from the Senator to the mob want Myron to stop digging.The truth beneath the truth is not only dangerous, it's deadly. And Myron may be the next victim.In novels that crackle with wit and suspense, Edgar Award winner Harlan Coben has created one of the most fascinating and complex heroes in suspense fiction--Myron Bolitar--a hotheaded, tenderhearted sports agent who grows more and more engaging and unpredictable with each page-turning appearance.From the Paperback edition.
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