Harry explains further in a conversation with Eleanor: “It was the darkness, the damp emptiness you’d feel when you were down there alone in those tunnels. “Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel,” Connelly writes. The “black echo” of the title crops up again and again, reflecting Harry’s deployment as a “tunnel rat” pursuing Vietcong soldiers through the network of tunnels they have dug throughout much of the country. More importantly, however, The Black Echo serves to provide the backstory about Harry’s combat experience in Vietnam early in the 1970s. It’s an engrossing and suspenseful story. (In later novels, she will become his wife and mother of his daughter.) And the case takes on implications that go far beyond Los Angeles. Harry becomes close to Eleanor Wish, the FBI special agent with whom he is paired in the investigation.
Harry is doggedly pursued by two thuggish detectives from Internal Affairs. As the investigation unfolds, complications steadily arise. The Black Echo, the first Harry Bosch novel, tells the tale of a protracted and difficult investigation into a daring year-old bank heist. He is under investigation by Internal Affairs, not for the first time and certainly not for the last. A spinoff series.” He is “an outsider in an insider’s job.” Harry has bought a house in the hills with money he received for the film made about his work, and he has already alienated most of the cops who work with him, especially the brass in LAPD headquarters at Parker Center. In The Black Echo, Harry is a twenty-year veteran of the force, “the famous Harry Bosch, detective superstar, a couple books written about his cases. If you’ve only read one or more of the most recent entries in the series, you may be interested to know that from his first appearance in fiction, Bosch’s character, the rudiments of the formula Connelly employs throughout, and some of the characters who follow him throughout the series all are on display. Of the thirty-one novels Michael Connelly has written to date since 1992, twenty-two feature LAPD detective Harry Bosch.
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