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Series: Book 1 in the Harry Bosch series
Rating: Not rated
Tags: Bosch; Harry (Fictitious character), Michael Connelly, Los Angeles (Calif.), Detective and mystery stories, Police, Los Angeles (Calif.) - Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Police - California - Los Angeles, Bosch; Harry (Fictitious character) - Fiction, Police Procedural, General, Mystery fiction, Police - California - Los Angeles - Fiction, Los Angeles, Thrillers, California, Fiction, Lang:en
Summary
Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times ,
transcends the standard L.A. police procedural with this
original and eminently authentic first novel. Hieronymus
(Harry) Bosch--former hero cop bumped from the L.A. homicide
desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad--gets the call on a
drug death at Mulholland Dam. Harry recognizes the corpse as
that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam; both were "tunnel rats"
who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath
Vietnamese villages. Investigation connects his old pal to an
unsolved bank job--the vault was tunneled into from the storm
drains below--and Harry takes his information to the FBI. The
Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs
surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained
throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and
request Harry as liaison on the case. Paired with beautiful
FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam
connection to the bank job--a discovery that puts them both
in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from
either the LAPD or the FBI itself. Police higher-ups are
somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. stereotypes and
delivers this front-page story with military precision.
YA-- Harry Bosch likes order, contends that there are no
coincidences, and keeps meticulous records in his
From Publishers Weekly
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.From School Library Journal
murder book.'' When the body of a formertunnel
rat'' from Vietnam is found in a drainpipe, Harry is the
detective on duty and is called to the scene. His
identification of the body begins an investigation that leads
to more murder, bank robbery, heroin, diamonds, and betrayal.
Connelly's descriptions of autopsies, murder scenes, and
police procedure are vivid and realistic. The use of acronyms
and police jargon puts readers in the middle of the action. A
real page turner with gutty realism and an unusual twist.
- Debbie Hyman, R. E. Lee High School, Springfield,
VA
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.