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www.ianrodwell-limited.com www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 1 of 19 Introduction My website, www.ianrodwell-limited.com launched on 01 February 2012 (1-2- 12), although I did a couple of “trial” blog posts before this. I passionately want to help people live much more fulfilling working lives. I want them to get out of the bed in the morning enthused and fired up ready to enjoy their working day and have fun. I call this state “Working Wow!” and I have been enjoying this working life experience for years now. I want to share it with you. As many of you may know, getting a website set up takes a bit of knowledge to do, you need to spend a little cash and get a little help. I knew nothing on 07 November 2011 on how to do this but I got it up and running by 01 February 2012, the date I had set myself. Thanks in no small part to Chris Farrell. However, the next task is to drive traffic to your website. I got some help from the teachings of the wonderful Kim Roach. Part of my training prior to Chris Farrell was to get a blog up and running through the free programme called Blogger (go to www.blogger.com) and I set up a blog initially around 2008 called “Rod the Blog” where I initially started to put in posts about my life. If I recall correctly I only posted about four posts and I did not really know what I was doing. One of the posts recounted how I had Christmas lunch one year in Dubai with the ex- Manchester United football Denis Irwin. I thought that would draw in the crowds. It didn’t. My interest was reawakened in the blogging world one day when I was just mooching around the internet. I found some videos on You Tube and a great guy who had a website called Recognized Expert hosted by a nice chap called Bob Sommers. I went over to the website and just for signing up I got access to 118 videos about Blogger. These were all pretty short, about 5 minute duration and I lapped them up each lunchtime on the laptop. With a few days I decided I had learned enough to revamp and reinvigorate my blog to one about book reviews. Hence Rod the Blog became a book review website and I concentrated on my favourite authors. www.ianrodwell-limited.com www.ianrodwell-limited.com www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 2 of 19 One of these favourite authors is Harlan Coben. I kept seeing Harlan’s name keep cropping up in other people’s forums (particularly Michael Connelly’s) and I decided to check his novels out. I really loved the humour and I soon became hooked on the Myron Bolitar novels and the characters in them too. Eccentric but very well plotted and written. I soon read my way through all of his novels and of course I added my reviews of his novels to Rod the Blog. You will certainly enjoy reading the Harlan Coben novels that is for sure, and he would be in my Top 10 authors too. As I said at the start of this introduction, I am now the proud owner of a fully- fledged website that promotes my Working Wow message. As a consequence of this website taking up most of my spare time, I have sadly abandoned Rod the Blog pretty much. However I thought it a shame just to let the book reviews just sit there gathering internet dust. Therefore I have combined these reviews into EBooks that I will use to publicise my website. Therefore I would ask that you help me to publicise my website by telling anyone who you think would be interested in the reviews or would like to learn how to have an enhanced Working Wow life. Thank you all so much for your support. 01 May 2012 Please follow the links below for more great information for you: www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 3 of 19 This eBook is one of a series that I have produced from my Rod the Blog blog posts. The series is as follows (all available at my website):  David Baldacci and I (Book Reviews)  Dick Francis and I (Book Reviews)  James Patterson and I (Book Reviews)  Jeffrey Archer and I (Book Reviews)  Kathy Reichs and I (Book Reviews)  Lee Child and I (Book Reviews)  Michael Connelly and I (Book Reviews)  Patricia Cornwell and I (Book Reviews)  Robert Crais and I (Book Reviews) Please visit my website and grab your copies now. And please tell your friends! www.ianrodwell-limited.com My Blog More Products Facebook Page Twitter You Tube www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 4 of 19 Recommended author Harlan Coben on Rod The Blog I am about halfway through reading the novels of Harlan Coben. I found it a little hard to get into the first Myron Bolitar one but now I am hooked. I read these in paperback or on Kindle on the computer. I can now highly recommend these novels. They are thriller mystery novels that are often funny and addictive. The Myron Bolitar ones (there are nine published so far) are great, you really get into the characters and the off the wall humour. As I am English and not from the USA I am also getting to understand a bit about American culture such as Yoo Hoo etc.!!!! Worth reading if you like thriller or mystery books. Harlan Coben Website (The above published on Rod the Blog on 14 March 2011) www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 5 of 19 Play Dead (1990) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book This is Harlan Coben's first published novel so you have to give a little leeway here! If you want to read all of his novels then you are going to read it anyway. As a novel it is not great but it is nice to see how much someone learns as Harlan Coben very soon becomes a good then a great writer with later novels. Having written that it is a readable novel and the plot is a trifle implausible but you can identify with the characters and appreciate the story as it unfolds. The world of basketball is well portrayed (I think!) and the dynamics of the Baskin’s marriage and Laura's career too is interesting. Only a 5/10 for this one for me. Miracle Cure (1991) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book This is one of the early Harlan Coben novels and he makes excuses for it in his introduction. This is a little unfair as it is quite readable if not as good as his Myron Bolitar novels etc. I read it in three days so that is a pretty good sign that it is OK. However, having written that it is really only a novel for the people (like me) who want to read all of Harlan Coben's novels. The book is set in the medical world and the thirst for research dollars and the conflicts that exist there. The characters are likeable and fairly real. The plot is reasonably good and the pages for me kept turning relatively quickly. www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 6 of 19 The fun part of the novel for me was that as it was written in the early 1990's the perception of AIDs was really quite strange looking at it now from 20 years later. The gay tag has definitely gone from this subject. Also the lack of mobile phones and the use of pagers for me was a fairly short lived era. 6/10 for me. Deal Breaker (1995) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book Myron Bolitar 1 Was so glad that I stumbled upon Harlan Coben novels and the Myron Bolitar series in particular. Read one of the stand-alone novels first and then moved on to read about Myron. People say you should never judge a book by its cover but I did with Harlan Coben and I am very glad that ignored this old saying. Myron is a Sports Representative and when Myron's prize client gets a phone call from his girlfriend who everyone thinks is dead, his dealings with his star start to go off track. Myron tries to investigate this sudden reappearance of the girlfriend and strays into the dark side of the sports world. Sex, blackmail and a family tragedy are all in play. Lies and half-truths keep the plot boiling. A good start to the series to get you hooked 8/10 www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 7 of 19 Drop Shot (1996) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book Myron Bolitar 2 A once big tennis star is shot and dropped outside a stadium. During the height of the US Open another tennis star is on the rise. Represented by Myron Bolitar. Myron investigates the murder and finds out that his client and the victim are connected. This leads him back into a murder in the tennis world from six years earlier. Myron soon becomes involved in matters of life and death with the mob on his tale and a strange mother in the mix too. Gets an 8/10 from me. Fade Away (1996) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book Myron Bolitar 3 Myron Bolitar, Sports Representative, ex-basketball star and ex-FBI man is set to find Greg Downing. Greg is the husband of one of Myron's old loves and they were also big rivals on the basketball court before Myron received an injury that ended his professional career. www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 8 of 19 The team boss wants Myron to find Greg before the media finds out he is missing. A mystery unfolds when Myron finds blood in Greg's basement and the finds the body of a woman. The mystery begins to unfold in earnest. Myron has to revisit his past and survive violent encounters before he finally gets all the pieces to the mystery. 8/10 from me. Back Spin (1997) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book Myron Bolitar 4 A boy from the rich streets is last seen on the less luxurious side of town and then disappears. He is the son of one of Myron's major clients and Myron's top priority is to track him down and bring him back to his family. Myron is faced with villains and liars from both the rich and poor parts of town. Myron has to pull out all the stops to unravel the mysteries that he is faced with. A good read 8/10. www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 9 of 19 One False Move (1998) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book Myron Bolitar 5 Myron's life is going along just fine as a Sports Rep. Then he meets a bright young female sports star. She has lost her agent and then her father disappears. The mafia begin to close in on her too. There is more to this glitzy sports star than meets the eye and Myron soon becomes involved up to his neck and beyond. My rating 7/10 The Final Detail (1999) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book Myron Bolitar book 6 Myron is not having a great life at the start of this book. And then it gets worse! His heart has been broken and he is recuperating with a passionate woman he barely knows on a tropical island. His strange friend Win turns up out of the blue and informs him that Esperanza (his business partner) has been accused of murdering one of their clients. Esperanza does not tell Myron what has happened and he has to find out for himself. [...]... reading this novel by Harlan Coben It is a stand-alone novel but it does tie in with some of the previous books It was nice to be on familiar territory with Cope and Muse etc and also the geographical location The story concerns the interactions between families and within families Coben has got a nice mix in this novel with the growing angst of teenagers that goes too far Also younger teenage girls and. .. written read, and I mean that in the sense that it gave the impression of a teenager's mind but by the pen of a master writer Mickey is haunted by the death of his father and the pain of this and dealing with his seemingly overbearing and unwanted uncle Myron He starts a new school and the first friend he makes disappears mysteriously In his efforts to find her, Mickey teams up with three other slightly... ones This is the last published novel for both Harlan Coben and Myron Bolitar Unfortunately for me it is the last Harlan Coben that I had on my shelf to read too I read through this novel at a pretty swift pace Having read the nine previous novels I was familiar with the great characters of Win, Big Cyndi and Al Bolitar etc You feel for Myron's family and friends so much too The crime/mystery part includes... great stand-alone novel by Harlan Coben The tale of an ordinary guy who gets involved in a fight and accidentally kills the other man He serves his time and when he comes out he meets the love of his life She gets pregnant, he is about to move home and he seems now set for life However, all is not what it appears with his wife She is pulled back into her past life Will Matt and Olivia survive all the... Book Image to purchase your copy of the book The first in the Mickey Bolitar series, the "nephew" of Myron Bolitar who is the hero of so many of Harlan Coben' s previous novels As I understand it, this is supposed to be aimed at children but I enjoyed the read as well even as an adult in my 50's www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 17 of 19 I read this on holiday in New York and it was a lightly... killer absconding and he is never contacted again His brother Will gets on with his life and he has a lovely girlfriend called Sheila Then his mother tells him on her deathbed that his brother is still alive Then Sheila disappears Will starts to chase after Sheila and searches for his brother too Sheila's past is not what Will thought was the truth As the plot unfolds the two events become intertwined... past, people leaving prison and other events start a chain of events in people's lives in the present The mystery is kept under wraps right to the end, with several twists and turns on the way Found the chief hitman, Mr Wu, particularly sinister A good stand-alone novel and I would give this 8/10 www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 12 of 19 The Innocent (2005) Click On Book Image to purchase... Cope's sister, it is unfinished business He reunites with an old flame from his youth to unravel the mysteries What he discovers via the links to the past and his Russian heritage change Cope's world around I particularly enjoyed the Russian angle and also the family parts Well worth a read and an 8/10 from me www.ianrodwell-limited.com WORKING WOW Page 14 of 19 Hold Tight (2008) Click On Book Image to purchase... for me Caught (2010) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book A reporter corners a child abuser and puts him in the media spotlight He then disappears and presumed dead It looks like the father of a victim has killed him The reporter, Wendy moves on to the story of a missing girl that is gripping the country She looks to be taking great strides in her journalist life Then the wheels come... whether she exists in fact or not The FBI is also involved and tries and pin his wife's murder on him too Despite this hindrance, David Beck continues to press on to find out the truth The truth inevitably turns out to be something different to what you expect This novel gets an 8/10 from me Gone For Good (2002) Click On Book Image to purchase your copy of the book A murder eleven years previously led . Harlan Coben novels and he makes excuses for it in his introduction. This is a little unfair as it is quite readable if not as good as his Myron Bolitar. clients and Myron's top priority is to track him down and bring him back to his family. Myron is faced with villains and liars from both the rich