title: Back Spin: A Classic Myron Bolitar Novel
author:  Harlan Coben 
description: "Another winner...Pungent observations, indelibly drawn characters and a twisting, surprise-laden plot."<i>Atlanta Journal and Constitution</i><br /><br />"Sharp plotting and emotional density, as well as nonstop wisecracks."<i>Publishers Weekly</i>
zlib_text: > > Back Spin (1997)
  
  > > Coben, Harlan - Myron 04
  
    
   **Published:** | 2010  
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  _**Back Spin.**_
  
   _ **Harlan Coben.**_
  
   _ *****_
  
  Chapter 1
  
  Myron Bolitar used a cardboard periscope to look over the suffocating throngs
  of ridiculously clad spectators, He tried to recall the last time he'd
  actually used a toy periscope, and an image of sending in proof-of-purchase
  seals from a box of Cap'n Crunch cereal flickered in front him like headache-
  inducing sunspots.
  
  Through the mirrored reflection, Myron watched a man dressed in knickers
  knickers, for crying out loudstand over a tiny white sphere. The ridiculously
  clad spectators mumbled excitedly. Myron stifled a yawn. The knickered man
  crouched. The ridiculously clad spectators jostled and then settled into an
  eerie silence. Sheer stillness followed, as if even the trees and shrubs and
  well-coiffed blades of grass were holding their collective breath, Then the
  knickered man whacked the white sphere with a stick.
  
  The crowd be