The Narrows (Harry Bosch)
by Michael Connelly
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Author: Michael ConnellyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-02
ISBN: 0446699543
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: Connelly and Harry Score Again
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Narrows" is Michael Connelly's sequel to "The Poet" which left readers with a cliffhanger about the FBI agent, Backus, turned serial killer. When there is a severe rainfall in L.A., The Narrows is where the water overflow rushes down the channels out of the city.
As usual this Connelly book has very complex labyrinthine plotting by the author and a master criminal, but yet the novel has a straightforward, very compelling writing style. Connelly knows how to create suspense and keep his readers glued to the pages. He keeps you going, afraid to quit. Intensity builds, almost suffocatingly with an excruciatingly suspenseful tale.
In this one Harry Bosch is retired from the LAPD and is an unhappy private eye. The death of former FBI agent Terry McCaleb seems suspicious to his widow so she gets Harry to investigate. While he is investigating, a dual track story is developing with FBI agent Rachel Walling. The two plots merge, and the "fun" begins. He and Rachel join forces to catch The Poet.
Bosch is supposed to "stand down" to the FBI investigation, but because he's Harry Bosch, rebel and iconoclast par excellence, he never will. The FBI guys are, as usual, stereotypical bureaucratic obstructionist bad guys.
Harry as a homicide detective has a slogan, "Everybody counts or nobody counts." He has a mission in life. Without it, he would shrivel up and die. He has to find and destroy killers.
Did you ever notice that in a crime novel the detectives at crucial, life-threatening times, never call for back-up? What fun is it when you have an army facing the perp, when it is much more fun to watch one or two people facing the dangerous enemy? Isolate your detective protagonist and leave him to twist in the wind.
FBI case agents who have great empathy for the victims are called empaths. They are emotionally affected by the murders and carry the burden of the cases with them. Morphs are the unaffected agents. McCaleb was an empath as is Harry.
This is one of the more successful Connelly books with a great chase, great detection and an exciting, suspenseful ending.
Summary of The Narrows (Harry Bosch)
FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes--and apparently he has not forgotten her.Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too--from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two are at odds with the FBI...and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own...
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