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Bosch's efforts to unravel the story behind his friend's death lead him to a Mexican border town, where readers get a look at the conditions that drive some Mexicans to risk their lives and their freedom to cross illegally into the US. In doing so, he uncovers the cop's links to a Mexican drug ring that sells the "black ice" of the title -- a potent combination of cocaine, heroin and PCP. This is the novel in which Bosch meets Sylvia, the dead cop's widow and the woman with whom he will fall in love by the time of his next case, detailed in The Concrete Blonde. In Black Ice, the second novel featuring LAPD detective Harry Bosch, Michael Connelly has developed Bosch's personality to a point where his cynical, darkly comic character quirks made me laugh out loud. In this book, Bosch is trying to track down the reasons behind a fellow cop's apparent suicide.
Highly recommended. Not quite as good as his later work (City of Bones or Lost Light) but a great read nonetheless. Michael Connelly is the hands-down leader in mysteries. This book has everything you expect: believable characters, plot twists and detailed settings.
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It's only when the real ending, from the meeting at the castled to the end, starts up, that the book picks up it's lost momentum and comes to an interesting and satisfying close. This book started with a great premise: a cop's murder is made up to look like a suicide. It slows down to a snooze inducing drag by 2/3, and the big DEA showdown in Mexico becomes so stupid that it's hard not to toss the book across the room.
A long, complicated case unrolls for Bosch and I will go no further so as to avoid spoilers.Dick Hill read this installation of the Bosch series with a great deal of skill. Connelly's Heironymous Bosch is named after a Renaissance painter who specialized in fanciful and gruesome visions of hell from high above and detailed looks at the tortures that it holds for its residents. I consider this to be one of the best series going right now and am happily working my way through them. It was a joy to listen and was the best thing about my commute for more than a week.While not the best of the series that does not mean it is not an excellent book. Heironymous Bosch is designed to be our guide through the modern hell of Los Angeles - at least that's the way it seems to the Hollywood Homocide Division.Fittingly, this book starts with Harry Bosch watching a wildfire burn part of the canyon below his home. His thoughts are interrupted with a radio call about a homocide and Bosch descends the mountain into the madness.
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