The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Book 31 of 2014
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In this, the first Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch novel, a Vietnam Vet/drug addict is found dead in a pipe by the Mulholland Dam. Bosch is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. It is there that he recognizes the deceased as a former tunnel rat like himself. It was their job to enter the miles of tunnels that crisscrossed the villages and farmlands and take out any Cong in there and blow the tunnels. At first glance, it appears that the victim, Billy Meadows, crawled into the pipe to shoot-up and then sleep, but the scene doesn't look right to Harry, and the subsequent autopsy confirms that Meadows was murdered. As Harry investigates, it leads to the discovery that Meadows may have been part of a gang that had broken into a bank safety deposit vault over the Labor day weekend the previous year, taking over two million dollars in valuables. He begins to work with the FBI to see where the murder investigation will take them with regards to the burglary.
Although this is the first book in the series, this is the second I've read. I'm glad I read the later book first, because I found this one a bit draggy in spots, and I'm not sure I would have continued with the series. It was good, don't get me wrong, but I didn't enjoy it as much as City of Bones. The beginning was really pretty slow, the plot was a bit more convoluted than it needed to be, and I wasn't all that satisfied with the ending. However, I will read the rest of the books because I know they get better.
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The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
In this, the first Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch novel, a Vietnam Vet/drug addict is found dead in a pipe by the Mulholland Dam. Bosch is the detective on duty and is called to the scene. It is there that he recognizes the deceased as a former tunnel rat like himself. It was their job to enter the miles of tunnels that crisscrossed the villages and farmlands and take out any Cong in there and blow the tunnels. At first glance, it appears that the victim, Billy Meadows, crawled into the pipe to shoot-up and then sleep, but the scene doesn't look right to Harry, and the subsequent autopsy confirms that Meadows was murdered. As Harry investigates, it leads to the discovery that Meadows may have been part of a gang that had broken into a bank safety deposit vault over the Labor day weekend the previous year, taking over two million dollars in valuables. He begins to work with the FBI to see where the murder investigation will take them with regards to the burglary.
Although this is the first book in the series, this is the second I've read. I'm glad I read the later book first, because I found this one a bit draggy in spots, and I'm not sure I would have continued with the series. It was good, don't get me wrong, but I didn't enjoy it as much as City of Bones. The beginning was really pretty slow, the plot was a bit more convoluted than it needed to be, and I wasn't all that satisfied with the ending. However, I will read the rest of the books because I know they get better.
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