The Black Echo

by Michael Connelly

Ebook, 2002

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Library's review

I’ve read and enjoy Connelly’s series about The Lincoln Lawyer, and while Harry Bosch, the LAPD detective who is the main character here, makes occasional appearances in that series, I hadn’t felt compelled to seek him out in his own milieu. Then my friend Joanne started reading the Bosch

books and writing favorable reviews and well, here I am, starting another dang series.

To be fair to Joanne, it’s pretty good. Harry is a good character and the mystery was absorbing. I kind of figured out some of the key plot points before they were revealed but it was still enjoyable to see how it all shook out. I suppose I’ll have to continue reading them, dagnabit. Thanks, Joanne. I guess. ;-)

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Description

A Vietnam veteran-turned-detective, Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch discovers the body of a former comrade-in-arms during an investigation and, with the help of an attractive FBI agent, hunts for the murderers on a trail leading back to Saigon.

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Kirkus Reviews

Big, brooding debut police thriller by Los Angeles Times crime-reporter Connelly, whose labyrinthine tale of a cop tracking vicious bank-robbers sparks and smolders but never quite catches fire. Swift and sure, with sharp characterizations, but at heart really a tightly wrapped package of

cop-thriller cliches, from the hero's Dirty Harry persona to the venal brass, the mad-dog IAD cops, and the not-so-surprising villains. Still, Connelly knows his turf and perhaps he'll map it more freshly next time out.

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Lecturalia

Harry Bosch, detective de la policía de Los Ángeles quedó marcado por la dura experiencia de Vietnam. Ahora, un caso le devuelve su pasado. La víctima, Billy Meadows, había servido en su misma unidad. Ambos eran ratas de túnel que combatían en la red de pasajes subterráneos del Viet Cong;

ambos experimentaron el terror del eco negro: la reverberación en las tinieblas de su propio pánico. Ahora Meadows está muerto. Pero su rastro parece apuntar a un gran atraco bancario perpetrado a través de túneles de alcantarillado.

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