The Arizona Republic Michael Connelly writes with a seamless unity of tone and pace that makes reading his crime novels absolutely effortless and totally engaging.his narrative rolls out in a perfect parade of action, memory, emotion, color and tension. Review Quotes Its impossible for Connelly to tell a bad story. Pitted against enemies inside his own department and forced to make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, Bosch goes on the hunt for a killer whose true face will shock him. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam tunnel rat who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. The Black Echo won the 1993 Edgar Award for "Best First Novel" and was also nominated for the Anthony Award in the same category and the Dilys Award for "Best Novel".About the Book Includes additional material: About the author Notes from the author Photos from the television series Bosch Book Synopsis An LAPD homicide detective must choose between justice and vengeance as he teams up with the FBI in this thrilling novel filled with mystery and adventure ( New York Times Book Review ). After Harry captures a suspect, Detective Bosch tells him, "I'm going to make sure you live the rest of your life in the black echo." Season 3 of the Amazon series Bosch is loosely adapted from this novel.
Bosch suspects that the robbers were after more than money and he then partners with the FBI, in particular agent Eleanor Wish, in an attempt to foil their next attack. The death of Billy Meadows, a fellow "tunnel rat" from the war who Bosch was friendly with, attracts Bosch's interest, especially when he determines that it may have been connected to a spectacular bank robbery using tunnels. However, after killing the main suspect in the "Dollmaker" serial killings, Bosch is demoted to "Hollywood Division" homicide, where he partners with Jerry Edgar. police detective advancing to the Robbery-Homicide Division. The novel centers on Harry Bosch, a Vietnam veteran who served as a " tunnel rat" (nicknamed Hara Kiri Bosch) with the 1st Infantry Division - a specialized soldier whose job it was to go into the maze of tunnels used as barracks, hospitals, and on some occasions, morgues, by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. The book won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for "Best First Novel" in 1992. It is the first book in Connelly's Bosch series. The Black Echo is the 1992 debut novel by American crime author Michael Connelly.
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