One False Move by Harlan Coben

One False Move features Myron Bolitar, who is Brenda Slaughter's bodyguard. Brenda is a basketball start and doesn't think she needs a bodyguard because she is twenty-five-years-old, but she agrees to it. Her father is missing, and she wants Myron to locate him. Myron also finds out that Brenda's mother left her when Brenda was five-years-old. Brenda's mother had written her some letters during the past years that she disappeared.

One day, Brenda and Myron drove to her father's apartment, but when they arrived, they saw that someone had been there because of the way the room looked. After a few minutes, Brenda realized that her mother's letters disappeared, and she had received threatening phone calls.

After Myron did some investigating concerning Brenda's father, Horace, he found out that someone had broken into Horace's apartment. He also found out that Horace had cleared out his bank account before he disappeared. Brenda told Myron that her aunt Mabel Edwards, Horace's sister, might know where her father relocated, so Myron decided to visit with her to see what he could find out.

During his visit with Mabel, he didn't find out much, except that she had her from Brenda's mother, and Horace didn't want to reveal his location because he thought it would be safer for her.

Later on, Brenda and Myron went to where her dad worked before he disappeared. They found her dad's locker and removed the contents because the security guard needed to have the locker available for the new worker. They found some trash plus some important papers that contained names of two men Horace had contacted a few times. They also found a shirt with a bloodstain on it. That shocked Brenda, and Myron asked her if she knew the men, but she didn't know either of them.

Myron and Brenda were in his car, and he called Lisa, his friend at the phone company who is doing some investigation to find out who else is involved. After he found out a few things, he pondered over his clues to the case of what has happened with Brenda, her father, and her mother. He found out that someone put a tap on her phone, but he didn't know who or why. Myron thought about their conversation and wondered if someone was looking for Horace or his wife, Anita, who was Brenda's mother. He hung up and told Brenda what Lisa told him.

Later that night, Myron and Brenda went to Win's place to discuss their situation. Win invited them to stay with him in his apartment as long as they needed to so they would be safe.

Throughout the book, Myron and Brenda are confronted with different obstacles such as people who want to harm them or locate Brenda's mother and father. The plot and suspense continues to build until the end of the book. Now, you'll have to read the book to find out what happens.