The Black Box (A Harry Bosch Novel)
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1478978082 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 487 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-05-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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riots. Like an investigator combing through the wreckage after a plane crash, Bosch searches for the "black box," the one piece of evidence that will pull the case together.Riveting and relentlessly paced, THE BLACK BOX leads Harry Bosch, "one of the greats of crime fiction" (New York Daily News), into one of his most fraught and perilous cases.. Harry originally investigated the murder, but it was then handed off to the Riot Crimes Task Force and never solved.Now Bosch's ballistics match indicates that her death was not random violence, but something more personal, and connected to a deeper intrigue. In a case that spans 20 years, Harry Bosch links the bullet from a recent crime to a file from 1992, the killing of a young female photographer during the L.A
The scales can never be righted, of course, even by solving the cases Bosch is assigned in the Open Unsolved Unit of the LAPD. Harry is such a compelling character largely due to his fundamentally antiestablishment personality, which leads to chaos as often as to triumph, but also because his unswerving work ethic reflects not simply duty but also respect for the task before him. Harry does it right, even—or especially—when his bosses want something else entirely. But Bosch has never met a roadblock he wasn’t compelled to either barge through or cannily avoid. From Booklist *Starred Review* At his core, Harry Bosch is a cop with a mission—to tip the scales of justice toward the side of murder victims and their survivors. That’s the case this time—How would it look if a white cop made headlines by solving the riot-related murder of a white woman? Better to let it slide. We like Harry, as we like many other fictional crime
He spends his time in California and Florida. Michael Connelly is the author of the recent #1 "New York Times "bestsellers The Drop, The Fifth Witness, The Reversal, "The Scarecrow," "The Brass Verdict," and "The Lincoln Lawyer, " as well as the bestselling Harry Bosch series of novels. . He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels
Suncoast said Bloodhound Bosch is still the best. After so many Harry Bosch stories you would think they should start to run out of steam - IMHO this is not so. Michael Connelly is a consummate author who can keep a great character running and evolving and continue to produce a top-class page-turning police procedural.In the last book, after a short retirement Harry Bosch returned to the LAPD with a 5 year contract under the Deferred Retirement Option Plan - "The DROP". He now works with the Open Unsolved Unit chasing up cold cases. In 1999, at the height of the LA Riots, Bosch briefly gets inv. "Everyone counts or no one counts." according to Lacelle. aHHH! I am happy to report that Bosch wasn't in front of IAD----well, maybe a little, but it wasn't as boring as his other problems with them. It begins during the early 1990s riots in LA, murders, looting, arson, anarchy. He and his partner go to the scenes, but there are so many calls they can't spend the time to get much information for a case. This particular murder becomes personal and he is determined to find out why a photojournalist from Denmark ends up killed execution style in an alley in LA.Years later he is working Open-Unsolved case. Richard B. Schwartz said A Near-Model of its Kind. The Black Box is one of Harry Bosch's best cases. A woman is found shot to death in an alley during the Rodney King riots. She is a Scandinavian photographer/journalist. Years later the gun which killed her surfaces. It has been used to kill several other people. Harry investigates, seeking to close a cold case. On the face of it this is a straightforward novel, but the skills required for its execution are considerable.Given the novel's nature I do not want to spoil the reader's experience by saying too much about the details of the plot. Suffi