Author: Michael Connelly
Translator: Chang-shik Lee
Publisher: Random House Korea
464 pages | 225*152mm
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About This Book
There's a gravitas to the mystery/thrillers of Michael Connelly, a
bedrock commitment to the value of human life and the need for law
enforcement pros to defend that value, that sets his work apart and
above that of many of his contemporaries. That gravitas is in full force
in Connelly's newest, and as nearly always in the work of this talented
writer, it supports a dynamite plot, fully flowered characters and a
meticulous attention to the details of investigative procedure. There
are also some nifty hooks to this new Connelly: it features his most
popular series character, retired L.A. homicide cop Harry Bosch, but
it's also a sequel to his first stand-alone, The Poet (1996), and is
only his second novel (along with The Poet) to be written in both first
and third person. The first-person sections are narrated by Bosch, who
agrees as a favor to the widow to investigate the death of Bosch's
erstwhile colleague and friend Terry McCaleb (of Blood Work and A
Darkness More Than Night). Bosch's digging brings him into contact with
Rachel Walling, the FBI agent heroine of The Poet, and the third-person
narrative concerns mostly her. Though generally presumed dead, the Poet
-- the serial killer who was a highly placed Fed and Walling's mentor --
is alive and killing anew, with, we soon learn, McCaleb among his
victims and his sights now set on Walling. The story shuttles between
Bosch's California and the Nevada desert, where the Poet has buried his
victims to lure Walling. The suspense is steady throughout but, until a
breathtaking climactic chase, arises more from Bosch and Walling's
patient and inspired following of clues and dealing with bureaucratic
obstacles than from slash-and-dash: an unusually intelligent approach to
generating thrills. Connelly is a master and this novel is yet another
of his masterpieces.
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