The Black Ice (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly
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Author: Michael ConnellyEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2003-12
ISBN: 0446613444
Number of pages: 448
Publisher: Vision
Product features:
- ISBN13: 9780446613446
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Book Reviews of The Black Ice (Harry Bosch)
Book Review: A very good yarn from Connelly's early days
Summary: 4 Stars
Connelly has been a popular writer of detective stories for awhile now, still cranking them out in several character series, but he seems to be coasting lately, not always investing sufficient time in his plots or in the bits of "business" that add verisimilitude to the story. It's a common hazard for a successful popular author. But the earlier stories, including this second one in the Harry Bosch series, are gold. Bosch, ex-tunnel rat in Vietnam and now an LAPD homicide detective, has been yanked from Parker Center and shuffled off to the Hollywood Division as punishment for his actions in the previous case. He's trying to close a couple of cases for the end-of-year statistics and gets caught up in the apparent suicide of a narcotics sergeant in a crappy motel room. Or maybe it's really a homicide. And then that death ties into one of his other cases, and then another one. And then he discovers yet another cop is involved. And it all ends up requiring Harry to make a journey down to Mexicali, where he finds himself in yet another kind of operation. Everything in the plot happens gradually and convincingly, dragging the reader along through the underside of Los Angeles and the barrios of Baja. Connelly has the atmosphere and the lingo down pat and we get into Harry's head and learn more about his background as the story progresses. It's absorbing and absolutely realistic. And there's a terrific twist ending that I admit I didn't see coming -- though the clues are there, in retrospect. If Connelly still wrote them this way he'd have the market sewed up.
Summary of The Black Ice (Harry Bosch)
Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border. Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the center of a complex and deadly game-one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.Contemporary Books
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