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.
publishers Weekly
lapd Detective Hieronymous ``harry'' Bosch, Protagonist Of The Highly Praised Mystery The Black Echo , Returns In A Procedural Thriller Set In And Around The Drug-trafficking Underworlds Of Inner-city Los Angeles And The Wastelands Of Mexico. When Bosch Arrives At A Sleazy Hotel Room Where A Fellow Officer Has Committed Suicide, He Senses That Something Is Awry. Noncommittal Superior Officers, A Diffident Widow And Tales Linking The Dead Man To A Newly Created Street Drug Called ``black Ice'' (heroin, Crack And Pcp Rolled Into One) Send Bosch Down A Winding Trail Of Forensic Impossibilities, Brutally Violent Drug Traffickers And An Ultimately Shocking Case Of Mistaken Identity. Award-winning Connelly's Second Fictional Effort Is Strong And Sure. His Pacing Could Be Better--too Often He Conveys The Same Information Twice--but His Plot And Characters More Than Make Up For A Slow Start. This Novel Establishes Him As A Writer With A Superior Talent For Storytelling. (june)
Categories:
- Mystery, Thriller & Suspense
- Thrillers & Suspense
- Crime
- Thrillers & Suspense
Publisher : Vision
Author : Connelly, Michael
Language : English
Edition : Reprint
Published :2003-12-02
Number Of Pages : 439
Binding : mass_market
ISBN-10 : 0446613444
ISBN-13 : 9780446613446
Item weight : 1.65 lb
Dimensions : 1.1 in x 4.2 in x 6.7 in
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