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Kharlan Koben

His heart is broken. His partner is in jail. And someone is trying to kill him. Then Myron Bolitar gets some really bad news.... For sports agent Myron Bolitar, it seemed like the perfect vacation. A tropical beach. A warm breeze. A little uncomplicated passion with a woman he barely knows. Myron is almost in heaven when his friend Win shows up with a message that blasts him back to reality: Esperanza is in trouble. It's time to come home. Now Myron is back in New York, determined to help Esperanza, his best friend and partner, who's been accused of killing one of their clients. But Esperanza isn't talking. Neither is her lawyer. And to prove his friend's innocence, Myron must trace the rise and fall of the victim, a pitcher who had been making a comeback with the Yankees. Suddenly the investigation is leading Myron to places he'd rather not go: into a family's agony, through the city's sexual underground, and to a moment buried on the dark side of a brilliant sports career.... Twelve years ago a young agent named Bolitar tried to help an up-and-coming athlete. It was a fatal mistake-- and now Myron will have to pay the price...

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George V. Higgins

No one likes Alexander Drouhin. Handsome, ruthless, and as smooth as a pool shark, Alex has built the largest and most successful sports agency in the nation from the ground up, leaving dissatisfied athletes and angry executives in his wake. Alex knows that greed can get you everything, but he never expected to get more than he bargained for. Surrounded by a motley staff of ex-football players and hungry junior agents, Alex is too busy closing the deal to notice that just about everyone, especially his own "associates," would be better off without him. So when Alex is found in his palatial mansion on the outskirts of Boston with a bullet in his head, there is no shortage of suspects - from pistol-packing limo drivers and bitter partners, to whining millionaire athletes. And by the time Lieutenant Francis Clay arrives on the scene, it appears that everyone has an alibi and no one has a clue.

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John Feinstein

Stevie Thomas and Susan Carol Anderson return in another fast-paced, action-packed sports mystery. The two teenage sports reporters have kept in touch after their wild time at the Final Four, and when Susan Carol manages to score a press pass to cover the first week of the U.S. Open Tennis Tournament in New York, Stevie works out a way to be there as well. The behind-the-scenes action in the world of professional tennis is occasionally bewildering, but it turns downright inconceivable when a young Russian phenom, Natalia Makarova, disappears right before her second-round match. Everyone is looking for Natalia--including Stevie and Susan Carol. The rumors are growing wilder by the hour. But they don't even come close to the shocking truth. . . .From the Trade Paperback edition.

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Laban Hill

When Jamil and his friends are invited to a mystery weekend at a resort hotel, they soon find themselves involved in a real mystery-- someone has stolen the plans to a revolutionary new wakeboard.