I want two friends like Myron Bolitar and Win Lockwood from Harlan Coben

Harlan coben

Born in New Jersey January 4 1962. This city and New York they are constant scenarios in the Myron Bolitar series. He graduated from political science and published his first book in 1990. Five years later, he started this series. A success: the choice of the particular names of the characters that already imprints personality on them.

He has written more novels with different protagonists, but with the same intrigue and atmosphere component. He is the first author to have won the Edgar, Shamus and Anthony Awards crime novels and his books have been published in more than thirty countries. His latest creation is for television in the series Safe.

Myron Bolitar series

I will say that although with the series it is usually preferable to follow the order, in this case you can start wherever you want. The self-concluding stories and recurring references the origin and personality of the characters in all the titles make it easy not to miss anything. Without going any further, I started with the last one in a hurry to grab the first book by hand to go on vacation.

The taste in my mouth was so good that I already followed from the beginning. Among other things because, with almost no idea of ​​the series or its protagonists, that you start reading in the first person of Win not only attracts you, but you immediately notice that you are going to like it.

Thus, touching all sports fields, as soon as we have a story set in the world of tennis as in the basketball, golf or baseball. Basketball is repeated in some titles, since Myron Bolitar was a former professional player. His conversion into a lawyer and sports agent will lead him to deal with all kinds of problems that arise for his clients or friends.

Characters

Myron bolitar

It is the friend that we all want to have, the best son or son-in-law a mother could dream of, and without a doubt, the ideal boyfriend. Loving, naive and ironic, also respectful, legal, concerned about his clients, family and friends. Romantic and nostalgic, your personal relationships always need the component of affection or love. We know him in his early 30s and still living with his parents, Ellen and Allan, in Livinstong, NJ, where you always want to be or come back.

With superhero complex (Batman - Adam West television, please- is a reference in almost all novels), he gets into trouble wanting and unintentionally, always looking for truth and justice. It was former professional basketball player who was removed from the court by a serious injury. And he's a lover of Broadway musicals.

Study Right In the Univertisty of Dukewhere he met Win lockwood, your roommate and that will become inseparable friend. It does sports representative first and then actors and other celebrities, but that superhero streak e amateur researcher It gets him into all kinds of trouble.

Win lockwood

Real name: Windsor Horn Lockwood III. From a multimillionaire family, haughty, wildly handsome and cocky, but delicate-looking and deceptively fragile. Edge, obnoxious, with a reputation for misanthrope, misogynist and psychopathhides such a personality dark and cold as Racional and absolutely loyal and generous for the few friends he considers so.

He does not hesitate for a second to get them out of a hurry in the most expeditious ways that are necessary. Without disheveled and without a scruple, regardless of expenses and without leaving a trace. Brilliant and successful Financial Advisor by day and vigilante outside the law at night, he has exceptional skills as a fighter and all the available means at his fingertips (money, private transport, contacts, weapons…).

Just mentioning her name makes you shudder good, bad and regular. In other words, he is also the friend we all want to have. And the steal of the function.

Myron sat down.
"You're a scary guy."
"Well, I don't like to show off," Win said.
High voltage.

He is one of the few literary characters who I have been able to see" easily after knowing its description. It was an immediate vision of that very elegant English actor, and also with a haunting face, who is anthony andrews, in his younger version and known as that lord Sebastian flyte de Retorno a Brideshead, the reputed series of the 80s with the same title with the original work of Evelyn waugh.

However for younger television generations I have also found a physique with a similar and kinder trace, but with that flamboyant touch of Win: that of the Australian actor Simon Baker, patrick jane de The mentalist. So my particular Win would be a cross between them.

Hope Diaz

La best friend from Myron. It is first your Secretary and almost girl for everything and then it becomes his social. Old and very famous wwe wrestler, or the pressing catch in her female version, she was known as Little Pocahontas. The Latin origin, is beautiful, loyal, smart, brave and capable of sacrificing himself for his friends to avoid problems for them, as is the case in The last detail. She ends up getting the old glories tour of the wrestling circuit going again.

Big cindy

Or one huge mass of woman as immense as absolutely adorable, naive and unapologetic. He paired up with Esperanza and they were tremendously successful. It will also be the Secretary at Myron's agency and a great help on many occasions as well. It is the character, along with Win, in which the most irony says Coben when describing or handling it.

Ellen and Alan Bolitar

The Parents Myron's are a couple as peculiar as they are deeply attached to their son. They take most of the emotional charge from Myron, who adores them and admits that he is not ashamed of having lived with them well into his thirties. Eventually he will buy their own house to continue being there when he returns to Livinsgton.

Coben is also recurrent when presenting or talking about them in all the novels, telling the same anecdotes (El Al, like the Israeli airlines, referring to their Jewish origins which are also the author).

Ellen Bolitar was a renowned lawyer, championed in the first struggles over women's rights. Alan was the manager of a textile factory And always always Myron refers to the odor of his cheeks when he kisses him to greet him, or to the custom of to stay awake at night until she knew her son was coming home. They are fundamental in Myron's life and when time and ailments take their toll, he will feel very affected.

Other characters

Jessica culver

El longer lasting love, but with many ups and downs, from Myron. Writer of success, his comings and goings in Myron's life throw him off balance. After a first break in which she left him, he returns in the first title and they resume the relationship. They will continue with it until they finish definitively.

Emily downing

El Myron's first love in college. She is the protagonist of Deepest fear, where he asks Myron for help finding the missing bone marrow donor for his sick son.

Bitch

One of the most particular characters. Former Mossad Agent, always appears transvestite with a thick beard, speaking in the third person and ready for anything. We know it as enemy of Myron, whom he is about to kill once, and then as ally.

Terese collins

The great and definitive love from Myron. An acquaintance journalist, television presenter, whom Myron meets by chance after his breakup with Jessica and after a case that leaves him very marked. His flight to an island with her, who also has a great personal injury, will be the beginning of a love that is interrupted for several years but then will reappear in Missing. This title is the only one where Coben gets the first person from Myron. It is also the most international, set in Paris and London, among other places.

Mickey Bolitar

El nephew from Myron. Son of his brother Brad and Kitty Bolitar, a troublesome woman who gives Myron more than a headache. They are the protagonists of High voltage, where in addition to helping a former tennis player locate her missing husband, Myron will once again hear from her brother, who left long ago without a trace.

Mickey will end up living with his grandparents after overcoming problems with his uncle. It is also a great basketball player and will help Myron in the case of the last title, A long silence. It is also protagonist of a youth series of three titles. Only the first has arrived here, Refuge.

A but

Perhaps a failure of Raccord literary that occurs in the last title, where a character whose destiny seems clear in the previous story, reappears. It may be that being in the middle of the Mickey Bolitar series, this character has been redeveloped. But it's a bit disconcerting for Myron readers.

Best

To highlight something between humor, narrative agility and general action, I will say the first person de Myron en Missing. But I have to point out that I have a weakness for that resource and therefore I always like characters to "speak to me" directly. When in A long silence es Win the one who speaks in his interventions, Coben finishes a task of 10.

Titles

1. Reason for rupture
2. Effect hit
3. Time-out
4. Death at the 18th hole
5. One wrong step
6. The last detail
7. Deepest fear
8. The promise
9. Missing
10. High voltage. It was the RBA Award for a crime novel.
11. A long silence

Why read it

Does it seem little to you? Okay, come on, three words: fun, myron and win.