Angels Flight (A Harry Bosch Novel)
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (523 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1619699826 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 11 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A tight, well-paced whodunit When a prominent African-American criminal defense attorney is murdered in downtown Los Angeles, Harry Bosch get assigned the case. Unfortunately, the primary suspects are elite detectives in the city’s Robbery Homicide Division. The case is a political loser. If he arrests a cop, he loses the respect of his fellow officers. If he doesn’t arrest a cop, the city will erupt in a riot.Oh, and Bosch’s year-old marriage is falling apart.Angels Fligh. "An exciting and timely mystery" according to Richard C. Reynolds. Harry Bosch and his teammates, Jerry Edgar and Kiz Rider, inherit a murder case loaded with booby traps that could have far reaching consequences for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). A prominent black attorney, Howard Elias, is murdered while a passenger on the Angels Flight trolley. Elias has been working on a legal defense for a man accused of kidnapping and murdering a young girl in a terrible manner. Elias’ murder fans the flames of racial hat. "One of his best yet" according to Shelley Isom. Angels Flight puts Connelly into the echelon of great novelists -- he takes the mystery novel to its highest level. And he isn't just writing a great mystery here but an expose of what is rotten at the core of America: greed, self-indulgence, ambition, self-interest, egotism, naked pathology. He could be the American Dostoyevsky and in this novel he runs the gamut from the anarchy and violence on the streets to a society predicated entirely on a total lack of mo
When Bosch arrives at the scene, it seems that almost the entire LAPD is present, including the IAD (the Internal Affairs Division). Haunted by the ghost of the L.A. --Patrick O'Kelley. Now, with his much-anticipated sixth Harry Bosch novel, Angels Flight, Connelly offers one of the finest pieces of mystery writing to appear in 1998. riots, plagued by incessant media attention, and facing turmoil at home, Bosch suddenly finds himself questioning friends and associates while working side by side with some longtime enemies. Angels Flight is a detective's nightmare scenario and is disturbing
And the hunt for a killer is leading Harry to another high-profile L.A. Now the streets are superheating. murder case, one where every cop had a motive. A brand new recording of this Michael Connelly classic - available unabridged from Hachette Audio for the first time ever! An activist attorney is killed in a cute little L.A. But the case is so explosive--and the dead man's enemies inside the L.A.P.D. trolley called Angels Flight, far from Harry Bosch's Hollywood turf. are so numerous--that it falls to Harry to solve it. The question is, did any have the guts?. Harry's year-old Vegas marriage is unraveling