police detective advancing to the Robbery-Homicide Division. The novel centers on Harry Bosch, a Vietnam veteran who served as a " tunnel rat" (nicknamed Hara Kiri Bosch) with the 1st Infantry Division - a specialized soldier whose job it was to go into the maze of tunnels used as barracks, hospitals, and on some occasions, morgues, by the Vietcong and North Vietnamese Army. The book won the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for "Best First Novel" in 1992. It is the first book in Connelly's Bosch series. (Jan.The Black Echo is the 1992 debut novel by American crime author Michael Connelly. stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job-a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job-the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below-and Harry takes his information to the FBI. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam both were ``tunnel rats'' who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages.
homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad-gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch-former hero cop bumped from the L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, transcends the standard L.A.
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