| The Black Echo | |
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| Author(s) | Michael Connelly |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English language |
| Series | Harry Bosch |
| Genre(s) | Crime novel |
| Publisher | Little, Brown and Company |
| Publication date | January 21, 1992 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| ISBN | 0-316-15361-3 |
| Followed by | The Black Ice |
The Black Echo is the 1992 debut novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. This is the first of Connelly's Bosch series. The book won the Mystery Writer's of America Edgar Award in 1992.[1]
In the book, Connelly introduces Harry Bosch, a Vietnam veteran who served as a "tunnel rat" during the war, who became an L.A. police detective, advancing to the prestigious Robbery-Homicide Division. However, after killing the main suspect in the "Dollmaker" serial killings, Bosch is demoted to Hollywood Division homicide, where he partners with Jerry Edgar. The death of Billy Meadows, a friend and fellow "tunnel rat" from 'Nam, attracts Bosch's interest, especially when he determines that it may have been connected to a spectacular bank robbery using subterranean tunnels. Bosch suspects that the robbers were after more than money and he then partners with the FBI, in particular agent Eleanor Wish, in an attempt to foil their next attack.
Bosch and Wish end up connecting the robberies to a group of Vietnamese living in Orange County, as well as some Americans that may have been involved with them.
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