The Final Detail (1999) (edit title/settings)

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• Myron Bolitar: Sports agent, former NBA basketball player and owner of MB SportsRep.
• Win Lockwood: Full name Windsor Horne Lockwood III; Myron's enigmatic partner who is also an investment banker. He is a blue blood with an aristocratic background and accent.
• Esperanza Diaz: Myron's partner
• Big Cyndi: Esperanza's friend who she sometimes hires part-time to help out in the office
• Hester Crimstein: High profile attorney handling Esperanza's case
• Terese Collins: Woman Myron met on a cruise and then spent three weeks with on a secluded island
• Jared Mayor: Sophie's son and Yankee's General Manager
• Jessica Culver: Myron's former girlfriend
• Sophie Mayor: Yankees baseball team owner
• Billy Lee Palms: Former friend from college days
• Clu Haid: Baseball player who's been murdered. He was Myron's first client.
• Lucy Mayor: Sophie's daughter
• Sawyer Wells: Motivational speaker
• Veronica Lake: aka Zorra; cross dresser
• Brenda Slaughter: Former basketball superstar
• Pat: Bar owner
• Sally Li: Medical examiner
• Bonnie Haid: Clu's wife
• Gary Mayor: Sophie's dead husband
• Vincent Riverton: Publisher
• Frank Ache, Jr (FJ): Runs TrueSport agency, son of a crime boss
• Dr. Kirstin Czerski: Computer specialist
• Mrs. Palms: Billy Lee's mother
• Bruce Taylor: Sports reporter
• Barbara Cromwell: Woman harboring a secret

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• “"Friends and lovers were great, he thought, but sometimes a boy just wanted his mom and dad.”

  Myron Bolitar

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• “The most important decision you’ll ever make is who you marry,” Dad said. “You can take every other decision you’ll ever make, add them together, and it still won’t be as important as that one.

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• “You have to love her more than anything in the world. But she has to love you just as much. Your priority should be her happiness, and her priority should be yours. That’s a funny thing—caring about someone more than yourself. It’s not easy. So don’t look at her as just a sexual object or as just a friend to talk to. Picture every day with the person. Picture paying bills with that person, raising children with that person, being stuck in a hot room with no air-conditioning and a screaming baby with that person.

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• www.infospace.com on the Web. You plug in a number, it tells you who the number belongs to and where they live.

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• “I’ll file that under ‘One Day I Might Even Care.’”

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• “But bosoms do funny things to people. Men, okay, that’s obvious. They become brain-dead. It’s as if the nipples shoot out like two grapefruit spoons, dig into their frontal lobe, and scrape away all cognitive thought.”

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• Redistributing wealth—that is, the act of moving money around without creation or production or making anything new—was incredibly profitable.

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• People say that baseball is a metaphor for life. Myron did not know about that, but staring down the foul line, he wondered. The line between good and evil is not so different from the foul line on a baseball field. It’s often made of stuff as flimsy as lime. It tends to fade over time. It needs to be constantly redrawn. And if enough players trample on it, the line becomes smeared and blurred to the point where fair is foul and foul is fair, where good and evil become indistinguishable from each other.

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• Basketball was Myron’s sport of choice, and football was probably his favorite to watch on TV. Tennis was the game of princes, golf the game of kings. But baseball was magic.

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• “If a bird flying over the sea is a seagull, what do you call a bird flying over the bay?”

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• website at www.harlancoben.com.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Manhattan, New York
• Hackensack,New Jersey
• Massachusetts
• Florida
• Yankee Stadium

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Table of Contents edit see section history

Series & Lists edit see section history

Preceded by One False Move, and followed by Darkest Fear.

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

1. Harlan Coben (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Classification edit see section history

• Library of Congress: PS3553.O225 F56
• Dewey: 813.54

Notes for Parents edit see section history

Mature themes (murder, violence and some profanity).

Subjects edit see section history

• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Authors, A-Z › ( C ) › Coben, Harlan
• Books › Mystery & Thrillers › Mystery

Links to Supplemental Material edit see section history

• Harlan Coben: Author's website

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