The Los Angeles police receive an anonymous call: the body of an unknown person was found in a sewer on a dam. Sounds like a typical drug overdose death. But the cop’s brilliant instinct helps Detective Harry Bosch to notice what others do not see. He is sure: this man was killed and tortured before his death. Bosch recognizes the killed — twenty years ago they fought together in Vietnam, such soldiers were called «tunnel rats.» Who needed to kill a war veteran, all the more tightly on a needle? What secret was he hiding? When it turns out that the FBI is interested in the murder, and Harry himself is removed from the investigation, he decides to catch the killer using his own methods. It becomes a matter of honor for him.
The novel opens the famous series about LAPD detective Harry Bosch, whose name is common — it was chosen in honor of the artist Hieronymus Bosch, a medieval genius, whose paintings have not yet been deciphered …
Michael connelly
THE BLACK ECHO
Copyright © 1992 by Michael Connelly
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© N. A. Kudasheva, translation, 2006
© Edition in Russian, design.
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