The Black Echo

For maverick Lapd homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. 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. 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. more

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Posted: Sep-06-2009

A very entertaining and engaging mystery

This is only the third Connelly book I have read, after reading Echo Park and City Of Bones, I decided to go to the beginning of the series. Bosch is a Vietnam vet and a highly skilled detective in the LAPD, who doesn't like to follow the rules (when it keeps him from solving his case). After...

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Posted: Jul-04-2009

A good intro to the Bosch series

My first Harry Bosch book was City of Bones, which I read unaware that I was mid-series. I became an instant Michael Connelly fan, and have kept up with the series as well as reading several of his stand alone novels. This year I decided to go back to the start and read those books I missed the...

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Posted: May-29-2009

ABridge(d) too far

The story is fine but half the length of the unabridged Audible.com version. Many books can be improved by being abridged, this was probably not one of those.

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Posted: May-27-2009

a good read

James Lee Burke recommended this book in his top 5 of all time piece in a recent Newsweek, so thought I would try it. Very well written, great plot, and interesting reading a police procedural done before cell phones and current computer technology

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Posted: May-12-2009

I love Michael Connelly

One of his earlier works and one of the best. I love this character and this type of fiction. Cops, murder, mystery, twists and love! Great book, keeps it going all the way to the end. Like all his books, you can't put down the last 100 pages!

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Posted: Mar-31-2009

Took a while to get into, but it was worth the wait

For the last two years, I have read through Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander mystery series, which I believe have stood in a class by themselves. As I came to the end, I hesitated on where to go next. I've heard of P.D. James, Michael Connelly, Robert P. Parker and many others. I went and bought...

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Posted: Feb-28-2009

The first Harry Bosch novel -- highly recommended

Black Echo is the first of Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch novels and it is a fine introduction to one of the great detectives of popular fiction. Harry works for the LAPD and was once part of its prestigious RHD, Robbery Homicide Division, due to his prodigious investigative skills. Harry is...

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Posted: Feb-02-2009

Good intro to a new character

This was my first read of any Michael Connelly books. That being said, I was entertained by the book and eager to finish it and discover the answers to the mystery.For the most part, the book was successful in making me want to know more about Harry Bosch, the main character of this and many...

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Posted: Jan-28-2009

Tunnel rats

The mystery/case Det. Harry Bosch is working on in this book could have been any case, and read like one. The selling points of the story were Harry's ties to the crime via the Vietnam war, and the humor/sarcasm he shows so well. This would have just been another mystery novel if the main...

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Posted: Jan-08-2009

Vividly Realistic Police Procedural

The Black Echo (1992) introduces Harry Bosch, a famous homicide detective from Los Angeles, California, who has been exiled to the small-town Hollywood police force after killing an unarmed suspect. When Harry gets the call for a body in a drainpipe, he recognizes first the tattoo, and then the...

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