The black echo book review6/19/2023 ![]() ![]() Harry links the dead vet with a “perfect crime”-a 10-month-old unsolved bank robbery. For Harry the return of the echo is a subterranean nightmare of screaming sweats. ![]() The further his investigations take him, the further Harry is driven back to his personal abyss in Vietnam. ![]() The Black Echo is the claustrophobic dank silence that tunnel rats experienced when ordered underground to flush and kill the hiding Viet Cong. Despite the spike mark in his arm, the late rat didn’t just die of a heroin overdose. Twenty years earlier, Harry knew the dead man they did a tour of duty as “tunnel rats” in Vietnam. When a unidentified body is found in a pipe near the Mulholland Dam, the first link in a long chain of coincidences develops. He is a methodical, traditional, superstitious detective. Like many fast-tracking Angelenos, Bosch finds himself detoured to the surface streets. Harry broke procedure and used excessive force, and in present-day Los Angeles exposing the law-enforcement family to unwanted media heat is a no-no. It didn’t matter that the Dollmaker was a sicko-a serial killer who painted his ladies before slaughter. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch, protagonist of Michael Connelly’s “The Black Echo,” is a sleuth who fell from grace with the LAPD. The authorities demote Hieronymus and transfer him to Hollywood Homicide. ![]() Hieronymus (rhymes with anonymous ) can’t get away with this outrage. Like a thief in the night, Hieronymus Bosch breaks into the home of the Dollmaker and shoots the craftsman in his bed. ![]()
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