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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780446613446 ISBN: 0446613444 Label: Vision Manufacturer: Vision Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 448 Publication Date: 2003-12 Publisher: Vision Release Date: December 02, 2003 Studio: Vision Related Items:
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 Rating: - Ghosts from the pastIt is Christmas, and Harry Bosch is on standby to take calls for any murders. He has the police scanner on, and hears a report of an incident within his jurisdiction. When he investigates, he becomes involved in a messy case involving a police officer. Things develop from there. There is a lot about bureaucracy and bean counting in the police department. Increase the number of arrests and increase the percentage of solved cases to make the atatistics look good when the budget request ... Read More Rating: - A Weaker Sequel to The Black EchoBe sure you read The Black Echo before this book. The back story and characterizations rely a lot on these books being read in the order they were written. The Black Ice has many things to recommend it. Harry Bosch is a modern "noir" detective working in LA's underbelly, the sleazy streets of Hollywood, who sees himself as an avenging angel with no room for anything else in his life. That characterization is tested in The Black Ice when Harry is affected to his toes by meeting the widow of ... Read More Rating:  - Harry is always GreatJust love Harry Bosch. The stories are gritting, complex and well executed with believable characters. What else do you want!? Rating: - Black Ice can send you skidding right off the road ...Having grown up in the upper Midwest (eastern Montana), I know all about black ice. It is deceptive - the road looks perfectly fine, but if you aren't very careful, and if you hit a patch just right (or wrong, I suppose, would be more correct), it can send you careening off in an unexpected direction. This idea is used to good effect in this very excellent novel by Michael Connelly. Harry Bosch only knew about the killing because one of the transmissions happened to go out on the regular ... Read More Rating: - The Black IceOne of his best - don't miss it. If you like Michael Connelly, you will like this one. 
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