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I’ve designed a gadget that will notify me when I run across clichés in crime thrillers with a *BEEP*. Let’s give it a test run on this Michael Connelly novel, shall we? So this is the first book in the series featuring a LAPD detective named Hieronymus “Harry― Bosch *BEEP*. .. Shit, why is it going off already? Oh, right. Quirky name for a main character. It seems to be calibrated correctly. Let’s proceed. In this novel published in 1992, Harry is a Vietnam veteran *BEEP* traumatized by his war e I’ve designed a gadget that will notify me when I run across clichés in crime thrillers with a *BEEP*. Let’s give it a test run on this Michael Connelly novel, shall we? So this is the first book in the series featuring a LAPD detective named Hieronymus “Harry― Bosch *BEEP*. .. Shit, why is it going off already? Oh, right. Quirky name for a main character. It seems to be calibrated correctly. Let’s proceed. In this novel published in 1992, Harry is a Vietnam veteran *BEEP* traumatized by his war experiences *BEEP* as a so-called tunnel rat who fought the VC in their network of underground passages. Harry is a driven detective whose inability to compromise often puts him at odds with his fellow cops *BEEP*. He has no family or life outside of his work *BEEP*, and he’s a borderline burn-out who lives on a diet of coffee, cigarettes and beer. *BEEP* Harry gets called to check out a dead body in a drainage pipe that everyone on the scene instantly assumes is a junkie who overdosed, but he has a hunch that it was actually a murder. *BEEP* Part of the reason Harry is convinced it was homicide is that he recognizes the victim as one of his fellow Vietnam tunnel rats. *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* Damn, the old war buddy schtick really swung the needle into the red on this thing. Harry quickly finds evidence that the victim was involved in a high profile bank robbery that had involved tunneling into a vault and emptying the safe deposit boxes. When Harry tries to get the FBI’s attention, he meets a beautiful female agent *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* named Eleanor Wish, but he also lands in hot water with his lieutenant who gets angry and yells at him a lot even though he hasn’t done anything wrong . *BEEP*. He also becomes the target of overzealous Internal Affairs cops *BEEP* that hound him even as he works with the FBI to try and solve the case. This quickly leads to a romance with Agent Wish *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP*..and *BEEP*….Uh oh.. I think it’s overloading…*BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP* Is that smoke?? *BEEP* *BEEP* BEEP* Where’s the off switch? *BEEP* *BEEP* *BEEP**BEEEEEeeeeeeepppppp…pp..pp* Crap. I think Connelly broke it.
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Anyhow, the odd thing about his book is that even though it’s got just about every cop thriller cliché you’ve ever heard of, it still works pretty well. It’s entertaining in a straight forward kind of way, and Harry’s gruff and grouchy persona is kind of refreshing since most cop/detectives are portrayed as unrelenting smart asses these days. A couple of things drag it down a bit. First, this is the third Connelly novel I’ve read set in the ‘90s and like the other two, there’s something about his stuff that seems more dated than a Perry Como album. I think it’s because he obviously liked describing the cutting edge tech of the day like police computer databases that are practically antiques now, and the way he dwells on them makes you feel like you’re watching a T. Rex walk the earth. The second one involves Harry doing something very stupid and later you realize that Connelly only had him do it for the sake of setting up a climactic scene near the end. Still, I did like a lot about this one and will probably try another in the series at some point. Hopefully, my cliché meter will be repaired and up to the task by then.
James Thane
Published in 1992, this is the book that introduced L.A.P.D. homicide detective, Harry Bosch. The series, which runs twenty-four books thus far, has remained strong throughout and is, almost certainly, the gold standard of modern police procedurals. When we first meet Harry, he's already forty-two years old and has been the product of one institution after another for virtually his entire life. His father left the family when Harry was very young and Harry never really knew him. Harry's mother tu Published in 1992, this is the book that introduced L.A.P.D. homicide detective, Harry Bosch. The series, which runs twenty-four books thus far, has remained strong throughout and is, almost certainly, the gold standard of modern police procedurals. When we first meet Harry, he's already forty-two years old and has been the product of one institution after another for virtually his entire life. His father left the family when Harry was very young and Harry never really knew him. Harry's mother turned to prostitution and was murdered when Harry was eleven. After her death, he was assigned to California's version of child protective services. He spent the rest of his youth in a series of foster homes, then joined the army and served in Vietnam. Upon leaving the service, he joined the L.A.P.D., eventually becoming something of a star in the Homicide Division. The fact that Bosh was a Vietnam vet and already forty-two in his initial outing would ultimately put
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his creator, Michael Connelly, in something of a box. By the time the series was to the current halfway point, Harry was already in his middle fifties and staring at retirement, a situation which limited the author's options. Still, Connelly has addressed the problem in innovative ways, although one wonders whether, if he had it to do all over again, he might have dealt with the situation in a different fashion. Given that he's forty-two, with a long career already behind him, Bosch appears in these pages as a character that's already almost fully formed. He's a rare animal in the L.A.P.D. in that he genuinely cares about the job and about achieving justice for the victims of the crimes he investigates. Later in the series, he will articulate his motto, which is that "Everybody counts or nobody counts." But it's clear that he's already driven by this principle when we first meet him. For Harry, it's often a pretty lonely road in a department that basically seems to be filled with self-serving cops and bureaucrats who are much less interested in serving justice than they are in achieving their own ends. For example, Harry's partner has a side career in real estate and makes it very clear that the real estate job is much more important to him than being a cop. All he wants to do is put in his twenty years, collect his pension, and go into real estate full time. And if one of his current jobs gets in the way of the other, more likely it will be the police work that suffers. If anything, the people in the chain of command above Harry are even worse. They're much more interested in advancing their own careers and protecting the image of the department than they are in the department's mission to serve and protect. And this means that Bosch is going to be in trouble almost all the time, in this book and throughout his career. Everybody admits that Harry is a brilliant detective, but he's not a team player and his actions occasionally embarrass the department. Accordingly, the Powers That Be would just as soon force Harry off the job and he's constantly battling against his superiors and against detectives from the Internal Affairs Division who will go to almost any lengths to dig up dirt against him. Not that Harry is all that congenial himself. For whatever reason, perhaps because of his background, he doesn't relate very well to other people and it seems at times as though he goes out of his way to offend people, even when they're trying to get along with him. A prime example is his smoking. By 1992, the health hazards of smoking and of second-hand smoke were pretty well established and already, lots of offices, restaurants and other such places were supposed to be smoke-free. Harry could care less and assumes that the rules simply don't apply to him. He's constantly lighting up in places where smoking is prohibited and in the presence of people who specifically ask him not to smoke. Even in the company of a woman he's allegedly trying to impress, Bosch still insists on smoking, even though it clearly annoys her. In fact, he becomes something of an asshole on this issue. It's hardly the way to win friends and influence people, but Harry clearly doesn't care. begins when Harry is called to a death site near a dam. It appears that a heroin addict has crawled into a large pipe and overdosed. The case should be open and shut, and Harry's partner, the real estate salesman, clearly wants to declare it an OD and get back to the open house that he's hosting.
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But the scene doesn't look right to Harry and he pushes forward with the investigation. Things really get interesting when the body is finally pulled out of the pipe and Harry vaguely recognizes the victim as William Meadows who served with Bosch in Vietnam. The two were "tunnel rats" who went deep underground to explore and destroy enemy tunnels. As Harry presses forward he discovers any number of other incongruities and ties Meadows to a crime that is currently under investigation by the F.B.I. Bosch contacts the F.B.I., hoping to link their two investigations in an attempt to solve both the murder case that Harry is pursuing and the crime that the Fibbies are investigating. But the Bureau is just as hide-bound and as self-serving as the L.A.P.D., and Harry runs into roadblocks there as well. Any other detective would almost certainly give up and just follow orders to lay off. But not Harry Bosch. He will pursue this case to the bitter end, no matter who he has to alienate or what he has to sacrifice in the process. And in this case it takes him through a brilliantly plotted story that leads to a tremendous climax. From the very beginning Harry Bosch has been one of the most compelling figures ever to inhabit the world of crime fiction and he continues to fill that role twenty-four years down the road from this book. is a great beginning to what has become a fabulous series.
Eric
I came at Michael Connelly backwards, reading the entire Mickey Haller series before any of his Harry Bosch books. And after encountering Bosch in , I wasn't that compelled to read more about him. But then I found the Kindle version of this on sale for 99c, so I couldn't really say no at that point. I was not disappointed, but blown away instead. This is a perfect detective mystery tale. Connelly's storytelling gifts are many and varied. He is a master of pacing, has a knack for creat I came at Michael Connelly backwards, reading the entire Mickey Haller series before any of his Harry Bosch books. And after encountering Bosch in , I wasn't that compelled to read more about him. But then I found the Kindle version of this on sale for 99c, so I couldn't really say no at that point.
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I was not disappointed, but blown away instead. This is a perfect detective mystery tale. Connelly's storytelling gifts are many and varied. He is a master of pacing, has a knack for creating multi-dimensional characters, writes realistic dialogue, a creates a robust plot. The best part is that even after you think you figured out the caper, you haven't, because there are so many layers to Connelly's writing that you've only peeled it back to the next.
Stephanie
is an enjoyable police procedural with loads of tension and a great twist at the end! I don't want to summarize the plot here as so many have already done that better than I could. Following are some of the major points that I took away. 1. Harry Bosch!!! 2. Great descriptions of Hollywood, CA and Beverly Hills 3. Background information on Vietnam War and "tunnel rats" 4. Robust, three-dimensional character developm is an enjoyable police procedural with loads of tension and a great twist at the end! I don't want to summarize the plot here as so many have already done that better than I could. Following are some of the major points that I took away. 1. Harry Bosch!!! 2. Great descriptions of Hollywood, CA and Beverly Hills 3. Background information on Vietnam War and "tunnel rats" 4. Robust, three-dimensional character development 5. A complicated crime and a mystery with a twist that kept me guessing 6. Harry 7. Funny scene when 8. Harry knew the murder victim from Vietnam and he called it murder right away when others were quick to classify an OD
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9. The storyline 1. The book seemed a bit longer than it had to be. I still loved it... just saying!! 2. 3. Harry
* His full name is Hieronymus (rhymes with anonymous) * Former hero cop -- now in "exile" after shooting a suspect in a previous case (Dollmaker) * Doesn't sleep much - troubled by nightmares and drinks too much caffeine * Smokes a lot! :D * Tenacious and single-minded in solving crime * Owns a house in stilts in Hollywood Hills from funds he earned through advising on a TV series * His mother (prostitute?) died when he was young and he went through several foster families and institutions * He was a "tunnel rat" in Vietman * He is a renegade police officer who isn't exactly by the book I was curious on the title -- why Black Echo?? It goes back to Harry's service in Vietnam... I highly recommend this to fans of the mystery / thriller genre. I can't wait to continue on with this series. Maybe Harry Bosch will become my book crush??
Beatriz
Reconozco que si no hubiera sido escogido en un Club de Lectura, probablemente nunca habrÃ-a leÃ-do este libro. En general, en esta lÃ-nea, prefiero la novela negra que la policial, no por un sentido de morbo pero sÃ- porque normalmente las personalidades de los involucrados tienden a ser más interesantes y las motivaciones más complejas. Sin embargo, me llevé una gratÃ-sima sorpresa. Además de introducirnos en el universo de Reconozco que si no hubiera sido escogido en un Club de Lectura, probablemente nunca habrÃ-a PDF File: The Black Echo Book PDF
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leÃ-do este libro. En general, en esta lÃ-nea, prefiero la novela negra que la policial, no por un sentido de morbo pero sÃ- porque normalmente las personalidades de los involucrados tienden a ser más interesantes y las motivaciones más complejas. Sin embargo, me llevé una gratÃ-sima sorpresa. Además de introducirnos en el universo de Harry Bosch (que va por su novela 27), personaje fetiche de Michael Connelly, es una novela increÃ-blemente bien estructurada, donde todo cuadra perfectamente al llegar a las últimas páginas, en un final realmente impactante e inesperado. Me encantó el personaje de Harry Bosch, asÃ- como el estilo de Connelly. Excelentes descripciones y muy fáciles de seguir, por lo que no se pierde el ritmo de la lectura en ningún momento, a diferencia de lo que me ha pasado con varios otros autores, que precisamente se caen al momento de describir las escenas de acción. Realmente me entretuve mucho. Punto adicional por la sensación vintage que se produce al leer esta novela 25 años después de su primera publicación (máquinas de escribir, bÃ-per, teléfonos públicos, fumar en las oficinas) y por abordar el triste panorama que tuvieron que enfrentar los veteranos de Vietnam.
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