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El Vuelo del Angel = Angels Flight (Harry Bosch #6)
by
Michael Connelly (Goodreads Author)
El cadaver de Howard Elias es hallado en pleno corazon de Los Angeles. Las demandas de este letrado afroamericano contra el Departamento de Policia de Los Angeles, aduciendo violencia y racismo, lo habian convertido en una celebridad, pero tambien se habia ganado el odio del cuerpo al completo. Cuando a Harry Bosch se le asigna la investigacion de este asesinato, sabe lo d...more
Paperback, 457 pages
Published
November 12th 2008
by Ediciones B
(first published December 1st 1998)
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Just what you'd come to expect from Michael Connelly--intelligent detection, an insistence on the part of his hero on the facts leading where they will, plausible plots. The detective, Harry Bosch, is, alas, human, and the reader gets to see and sadly realize how certain bad turns might, repeat might, have been prevented had the investigator, already brilliant, had he been even more smart, more aware. Looking back, the reader is allowed to see, to imagine, how things might have been improved. Th...more
6th in the Harry Bosch series.[return][return]LAPD stress levels being what they are, naturally Harry s one-year old marriage is on the rocks. To distract him from his personal woes, he and his team are called in to lead the investigation of a high-profile black lawyer-activist whose main claim to fame has been suing members of the LAPD for civil rights violations in investigations against racial minorities and winning. His latest case, about to go to court, involves the alleged torture and ...more
This the second Michael Connelly book that I’ve read and I’ve enjoyed both of them. Both were quick, easy reads. In this case, I bought the book at the Albany airport on a Tuesday afternoon and finished up on Wednesday afternoon. It took about 24 hours, with time out for sleeping and work.
This book is more than a tad formulaic. A hard-bitten cop with a failing marriage. A corrupt police department. The murder of a prominent citizen. Another case, several years old, involving a power...more
This book is more than a tad formulaic. A hard-bitten cop with a failing marriage. A corrupt police department. The murder of a prominent citizen. Another case, several years old, involving a power...more
I’m really enjoying this series. Smart stuff. Engaging all the way through.
STORY BRIEF:
Elias is a black attorney who is famous for winning lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Dept. He was shot and killed. The public believes the killer is a police officer. Authorities fear race riots in the streets. A large task force is assembled to investigate the crime as quickly as possible. Bosch and FBI agent Lindel are in charge and divide the duties. Bosch investigates myste...more
STORY BRIEF:
Elias is a black attorney who is famous for winning lawsuits against the Los Angeles Police Dept. He was shot and killed. The public believes the killer is a police officer. Authorities fear race riots in the streets. A large task force is assembled to investigate the crime as quickly as possible. Bosch and FBI agent Lindel are in charge and divide the duties. Bosch investigates myste...more
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This is a review of not just the 6th book, but a general comment about the series to this point.
Warning: Just about a month after reading the first of the Harry Bosch series, my wife and I are now both well into the 7th book. It's like trying to watch just one episode of 24 when you have the entire series on DVD, you can't do it; just have to keep going! :)
The more of these I read, the more I wonder how much this series influenced the last decade of TV drama series. This seri...more
Warning: Just about a month after reading the first of the Harry Bosch series, my wife and I are now both well into the 7th book. It's like trying to watch just one episode of 24 when you have the entire series on DVD, you can't do it; just have to keep going! :)
The more of these I read, the more I wonder how much this series influenced the last decade of TV drama series. This seri...more
When civil rights activist and attorney Howard Elias is murdered, Harry Bosch and his team are called in to investigate. The murder doesn’t take place in their division and should be investigated by Robbery Homicide, but because Elias has brought charges against almost all of the Robber Homicide detectives at some time, Bosch becomes the chosen investigator. However, Bosch and his team will also be paired with Internal Affairs detectives led by Chastain with whom Bosch has a negative history.
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Wonder how Harry got so cynical, so lonely, so determined? Angels Flight answers all those questions, and more. Called out upon the discovery of the murder of an anti-cop lawyer, he immediately fears that a cop committed the crime. In the post OJ climate of LA, the chief demands a politically correct outcome to this investigation. But Harry has a conscience, and the outrages that occur as he works the scene and the records, threaten to undermine his willingness, and ability, to work within the s...more
‘Whether you like it or not, you have been assigned to this case.’
When the body of Howard Elias, a high profile black lawyer, is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight in downtown Los Angeles, no detective in the city wants to touch the case. Elias specialises in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism and corruption and every LAPD cop is a potential suspect in his murder. The atmosphere in Los Angeles is tense: racial distrust and recriminations against the police are pa...more
When the body of Howard Elias, a high profile black lawyer, is found inside one of the cars on Angels Flight in downtown Los Angeles, no detective in the city wants to touch the case. Elias specialises in lawsuits alleging police brutality, racism and corruption and every LAPD cop is a potential suspect in his murder. The atmosphere in Los Angeles is tense: racial distrust and recriminations against the police are pa...more
Michael Connelly is among my favorite writers, but Angels Flight is not one of his better works.
Angels Flight follows the efforts of L.A> Detective Harry Bosch as he leads a desperate effort to solve the exceptionally brutal murder of a Johnnie Cochran-like civil rights attorney.
The novel takes place a few years after the O.J. trial and all of Los Angeles is primed and ready to go up like kindling. The story has all the right characters, the dirty cops, the Sharpton...more
Angels Flight follows the efforts of L.A> Detective Harry Bosch as he leads a desperate effort to solve the exceptionally brutal murder of a Johnnie Cochran-like civil rights attorney.
The novel takes place a few years after the O.J. trial and all of Los Angeles is primed and ready to go up like kindling. The story has all the right characters, the dirty cops, the Sharpton...more
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A Detective Bosch novel.
A prominent attorney is murdered and no cop wants to take the case as it will bring too much heat down on them. Bosch is called in the middle of the night to work the case, which he instantly knows will bring chaos and conflicts to the streets in LA. Bosch is smart and incredibly capable and trusting of his team. The problem is that he is assigned additional team members he doesn’t trust and all the while his boss is s...more
A Detective Bosch novel.
A prominent attorney is murdered and no cop wants to take the case as it will bring too much heat down on them. Bosch is called in the middle of the night to work the case, which he instantly knows will bring chaos and conflicts to the streets in LA. Bosch is smart and incredibly capable and trusting of his team. The problem is that he is assigned additional team members he doesn’t trust and all the while his boss is s...more
Oh, I like. This was a true law and order type story. I've been reading a lot of the Jake Reacher and they have a military bent to them and yes, they are mysteries, but this was a true copy story. I very much enjoyed it. I'm not sure if it was just the shift in author and therefore, a new way of writing and style of story telling but I liked it a lot. Harry Bosch and his team are pulled in to investigate the murder of a defense attorney who is at war with the LAPD. He has made his name suing the...more
# 6 in the Harry Bosch series. One of Michael Connelly's better ones in the Bosch series. The story starts with the murder of a prominent civil rights attorney in a LA trolley called Angels Flight. The attorney Howard Elias and a woman were found shot to death on the trolley. Harry and his partners Edgar and Rider are called in to an area where another department usually covers. Being that the other squad is involved in a lawsuit with Elias they are also considered suspects. The background from ...more
Michael Connelly sure knows how to keep his readers entertained and "Angels Flight" was definitely entertaining. When a civil rights lawyer ends up murdered along with an innocent bystander on Angels Flight Friday night shortly before 11 PM, Harry Bosch and his team is called to the scene in the middle of the night~they are told by the deputy chief of police that this case must be kept under wraps of the media and worked as if it was solved yesterday. The lawyer, Howard Elias, was read...more
Still on my quest to read all of the Harry Bosch books. This seems like the first one I have read that isn't about his personal demons. At least this is the first one where Harry was not under investigation by IAD during the book. Someone he works with ends involved in the case, but we don't find that out until the end.
The one disappointment I have with the story is that at the end of the previous book, he married Eleanor, who was the love of his life. He felt safe and not lonely for...more
The one disappointment I have with the story is that at the end of the previous book, he married Eleanor, who was the love of his life. He felt safe and not lonely for...more
Homicide detective Hieronymous (Harry) Bosch is up to his very stiff neck in politics, police corruption and racial tension. When Howard Elias, an African American lawyer famous for suing the LAPD for racially motivated brutality, is shot dead on the short train run up a steep hill in downtown L.A. known as Angels Flight Bosch and his team are assigned the highly sensitive case. Bosch deals with racial and departmental political hokum, he goes into the case knowing that cops will be among the su...more
Definately one of my favourites of the Harry Bosch series
Outstanding Bosch police procedural, with heavy doses of race and politics!
Published in 1998/99, this is Connelly's sixth Harry Bosch story; by now he has twice that many novels, not all in the Bosch set. "Flight" is another fine entry starring the intellectual, somewhat reclusive LAPD homicide detective, although in this one Bosch is still married to (gambling addict) Eleanor, the cause of much anxiety as a sub-plot to this tough yarn. Things get rolling when Bosch is call...more
Published in 1998/99, this is Connelly's sixth Harry Bosch story; by now he has twice that many novels, not all in the Bosch set. "Flight" is another fine entry starring the intellectual, somewhat reclusive LAPD homicide detective, although in this one Bosch is still married to (gambling addict) Eleanor, the cause of much anxiety as a sub-plot to this tough yarn. Things get rolling when Bosch is call...more
Number six in the Harry Bosch series. After reading the Lincoln Lawyer series, I decided I had to explore the Harry Bosch books. I started with number one and have been moving steadily forward. The only problem I have had with either series is anticipating the last book. That's what happened at the end of the Lincoln Lawyer series - there was no next book, so Harry Bosch #1. These are excellent mystery/thrillers. There is always some twist that I am not expecting. Michael Connelly's main charact...more
UNFORGETTABLE
Connelly is getting better and better and this is far the best novel of the "Harry Bosch series", it features a complex and intriguing whodunit story full of mysteries and with many ingredients like the LAPD, the rich, the poor, race, sex, politics, power and the internet, it also offers shrewd twists far better placed than in the other books of the series. The plot is flawless and without loose ends, full of tension from beginning to end, suitable for attentive ...more
Connelly is getting better and better and this is far the best novel of the "Harry Bosch series", it features a complex and intriguing whodunit story full of mysteries and with many ingredients like the LAPD, the rich, the poor, race, sex, politics, power and the internet, it also offers shrewd twists far better placed than in the other books of the series. The plot is flawless and without loose ends, full of tension from beginning to end, suitable for attentive ...more
I feel like the Harry Bosch novels just keep getting better through the series - I'm not sure if Connelly is finding his rhythm with the misanthrope detective, or I'm finding my rhythm as a reader. Either way, I just want to read them one right after another. Angels Flight opens with the shooting death of Los Angeles's civil rights lawyer, Howard Elias. Elias was on the eve of trial on behalf of a man acquitted of rape and murder, against LAPD officers accused of brutality against him. With near...more
I really liked this book and was highly engrossed. It had enough clever, even brilliant twists and turns to satisfy even the most snooty mystery lover. It would have been one of my favorites, but somewhere after the suicides it started to lose me. There is something about the ending that just doesn't resonate with me. It was like a great race, until the horse seemed to lose his stride in the final stretch--he won, but somehow awkwardly in an otherwise graceful race. Now I'm being snooty--gr...more
Another excellent police procedural by Michael Connelly. I found the reality of the situations a bit depressing in that Detective Harry Bosch was assigned a murder investigation and then for political reasons forbidden from solving it. Bosch ignores the demands that he whitewash the case, and solves not only the assigned murder, but the case that caused the victim to be murdered. In the end, Harry sees all his work swept under the rug in the name of city politics and community relations - and...more
I've read all the books in Connelly's "Harry Bosch" series, and Connelly is my favorite crime author of all time. If you like crime fiction, DO NOT MISS this series! I always read a series in order. As the series progresses, the reader gets to know Bosch on a very personal level. Connelly takes us inside Harry's soul, and while reading these novels, one gets to know him so intimately, that it's hard sometimes to remember that he isn't real. I would get WORRIED about Harry in betwee...more
It has been a long time since I have read Connelly and this was the last of his earlier works I had not read. I really loved this book and it was so much fun to return to the world a Harry Bosch. I have always loved Bosch because he is like a film Noir detective, troubled and alone but you keep hoping a ray of sunshine comes through to make his day a little better. These are just good mysteries.
Angels Flight deals with some tough issues that at times are hard to wrap a reader’s mind...more
Angels Flight deals with some tough issues that at times are hard to wrap a reader’s mind...more
This has to be the best Harry Bosch novel of a very good series, and it is read by one of my favorites, Dick Hill, to boot. The great thing about Connelly’s hard-boiled police procedural series is that you get a real sense of detection as Harry and his partners, Ryder and Edgar, collect clues and then put them together.
This particular case is incendiary. Howard Elias, a black civil rights attorney, is perhaps the LAPD’s most hated man in Los Angeles. He has made a practice of fi...more
This particular case is incendiary. Howard Elias, a black civil rights attorney, is perhaps the LAPD’s most hated man in Los Angeles. He has made a practice of fi...more
An excellent Harry Bosch with the usual Connolly twists and turns --- all believable. Bosch is persistent, brilliant, and sometimes rash/wrongheaded — a good combination in a character who works for the LA police. The mystery focuses on who killed an African-American lawyer who has been a thorn in the side of the LA police and who is currently about to prosecute several policemen. The journey leads Harry to a dominatrix and an earlier murder --- that of a child. Secondary characters are vivi...more
Michael Connelly and Harry Bosch do it again. A lawyer is found murdered at the foot of Angels Flight which is an inclined railway inthe heart of Los Angeles. When? On the night before a landmark trial. The lawyer is charging the LAPD with racism and brutality. Harry, of course, is put in charge of the team to investigate the lawyer's murder. At the same time, his wife, Eleanor, has left him. Also there is a racial element in this story ... Los Angeles could ignite at any minute. All thi...more
This book saved me on my latest road trip without my kindle. I happened upon in at the hotel gift shop. I have enjoyed Connelly's Mickey Haller books, but this is the first Harry Bosch novel I tried, and I enjoyed it quite a lot. The end was not a total surprise, but the tensions between police and lawyers, and FBI agents were well paced and entertaining until the end. I'm looking forward to going back to the beginning and reading the others in this series.
This is a Harry Bosch detective story set in Los Angeles. It is in the middle of the Bosche series, and Harry becomes more cynical and depressed as the novel progresses. His imploding marriage is only one of the causes for his emotional distress. The toll of being a homocide detective is taking its toll. All the loose ends are neatly tied up in this multiple murder story. It is almost like Hamlet at the end because so many of the characters are dead.
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