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  <default_description>For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch -- hero, maverick, nighthawk -- the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic.  This one is personal.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The dead man, Billy Meadows, was a fellow Vietnam &quot;tunnel rat&quot; who fought side by side with him in a nightmare underground war that brought them to the depths of hell.  Now, Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam.  From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city to the tortuous link that must be uncovered, his survival instincts will once again be tested to their limit.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Joining with an enigmatic and seductive female FBI agent, pitted against enemies inside his own department, Bosch must make the agonizing choice between justice and vengeance, as he tracks down a killer whose true face will shock him.</default_description>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read an article in the L.A. Times about Michael Connelly, and his background as a crime reporter intrigued me, so I decided to read his books. I started with <em>The Black Echo</em>, the first book in the Hieronymous Bosch series, and I am very glad that I read these books in order. Connelly is a masterful...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4791881">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Somehow in all of my mystery and crime fiction reading, I had never read anything by Michael Connelly. His books had always been on my reading list, but for some reason or another he was always bumped in favor for something else. Since it looks like Ian Rankin's great detective John Rebus might well...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41898824">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Harry Bosch is a saltier version of the mystery novels I normally read. I read this as a foray into the world of &quot;guy lit&quot;. I just asked a guy friend what I should read, and he said &quot;Bosch&quot;. Bosch is a bit of a loner who's on the verge of deciding whether or not he's lonely. It s...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41303838">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I stumbled across this on our local libraries digital downloads list. I couldn't resist trying a mystery series where the protagonist is named Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch.  I found the story interesting and as plausible as most books I've read in the mystery/detective/police genre.  I found the author'...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75757815">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A pretty good mystery/action thriller.  The first in a series with Connelly's LAPD detective character Harry Bosch.  In this story, Harry is assigned to a potential murder investigation involving someone he fought alongside in Vietnam.  At first it appears the victim just OD'ed on drugs, but Harry d...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/56483773">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I listened to this book in 2004, having read a couple later in the series.  This is the first in the Det. Harry Bosch series and wanted to recommend that anyone who enjoyes a good, solid detective series should start here. The audiobook is read by Dick Hill, who does a great job, as always.  The ser...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/49572493">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Harry Bosch, still working for LAPD, has been called to investigate a body in a drain pipe.  As he crawls in to investigate he recalls his time in Viet Nam when he was a tunnel rat.  Ironically, the body is one of his old companions from the war, and what looks like a drug overdose to Harry's team, ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46790752">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[A very good start to a very good series. Michael Connelly is able to convey the complicate politics of the LAPD in a very short sentiment: Harry Bosch is not part of The Family. Anyone from southern Cal knows that for decades, LAPD was insular, run like a militia, and prone to covering its own ass r...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60246224">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I was remarkably ambivalent about &quot;Black Echo.&quot; I neither liked it nor disliked it, but it would be harder to convince me to like it than not. Police procedurals have gotten formulaic (cf Martin Beck, John McClane, Inspector Rebus) with stock characters and plot devices. Protags tend to ha...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/60582557">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I don't normally read the hard boiled detective stories, so this was something new for me.  I had a good time reading this and trying to figure out what was going on.  Certainly, Harry Bosch has had a rough row to hoe.<br/><br/>An outcast even in his own department, Harry takes on a case no one wa...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/54365856">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[<em>The Black Echo</em> is Michael Connelly's first book and our introduction to his hard-boiled LAPD Homicide Detective Heironymous (Harry) Bosch.  Bosch has a great talent for murder investigation that is equaled by his talent for totally pissing off the brass at Parker Center.<br/><br/>The early Bosch b...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42151545">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[wow, this is really exactly what a detective novel should be!  it has all the required elements without being cheesy.  it even manages to be self-referential about how typical it is, yet remain exciting and an excellent read and experience!  all the insider LA references (e.g., repeated mentions of ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75976048">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I've read a couple of Harry Bosch, and find that I've become more or less addicted.  At first I was thrown by my perception of uncaring toughness and the sort of superhero ease with Bosch deals with dangerous situations.  But I've come to overlook this because of the strengths of the plots, and the ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67386157">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like a good mystery as much as the next person, and since this came with an Edgar Award pedigree and is set in my current hometown, I thought I'd really enjoy it.  The mystery itself slowly unfolds (some might say very slowly) over a long 400+ pages.  I respect the author for being detail-oriented...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65719367">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[&quot;The Black Echo&quot; by Michael Connelly<br/>(from the back cover)<br/><br/><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1sF34X_HN9E/Sm_E01Rgi3I/AAAAAAAAJIo/QYwOeNQEtn4/s1600-h/TheBlackEcho.jpg"><img src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_1sF34X_HN9E/Sm_E01Rgi3I/AAAAAAAAJIo/QYwOeNQEtn4/s320/TheBlackEcho.jpg" alt="" class="escapedImg"/></a><br/><br/><br/>For LAPD homicide cop Harry Bosch--hero, maverick; nighthawk--the body in the drain-pipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic.  The dead man was a fellow Vietnam &quot;tunnel ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/64840221">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this when it first came out in the early 90s, but am happy to have gone back and read it again so many years later.  Bosch's story seems much more realistic to me at 40 years of age than it did at 25.  And the writing is fabulous, if a little stark.  I remember that I read the two books after...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/53638257">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[After the first 80 pages, I was so close to giving up, but I decided to persevere. It was a bit too graphic for my liking -- mostly the violence. After I got past the first part, however, the book got quite a bit better, although it still wasn't great. One of the major problems was the fact that the...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/63786180">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[I like to read the books in order. Maybe the reason this one is taking me so long is that I went to one of Connelly's earlier books. <br/><br/>************************************************************************<br/><br/>The first of the Harry Bosch books. It’s not that we start at the beg...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41863925">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Several months ago, I enjoyed Connelly's novel The Lincoln Lawyer, featuring attorney Mickey Haller.  I read that Connelly published a new book starring Haller and his other famous character, detective Harry Bosch.  So, I decided to go back to the beginning, and read the first Bosch novel published ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/36101049">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <body><![CDATA[Michael Connelly won the &quot;Edgar Award&quot; for Best First Novel with &quot;The Black Echo&quot;, which introduces us to LAPD Detective Hieronymous &quot;Harry&quot; Bosch. Bosch had formerly been a member of the LAPD's elite RHD (Robbery Homicide Division), but roughly a year before this book ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/31603797">more...</a>]]></body>
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