The Black Ice (Michael Connelly) PB-Good

narcotics Officer Cal Moore”s Orders Were To Look Into The City”s Latest Drug Killing. Instead, He Ends Up In A Motel Room With A Fatal Bullet Wound To The Head And A Suicide Note Stuffed In His Back Pocket. Working The Case, Lapd Detective Harry Bosch Is Reminded Of The Primal Police Rule He Learned Long Ago: Don”t Look For The Facts, But The Glue That Holds Them Together. Soon Harry”s Making Some Very Dangerous Connections, Starting With A Dead Cop And Leading To A Bloody String Of Murders That Wind From Hollywood Boulevard To The Back Alleys South Of The Border. Now This Battle-scarred Veteran Will Find Himself In The Center Of A Complex And Deadly Game-one In Which He May Be The Next And Likeliest Victim.

publishers Weekly

lapd Detective Hieronymous “harry”” Bosch, Protagonist Of The Highly Praised Mystery The Black Echo , Returns In A Procedural Thriller Set In And Around The Drug-trafficking Underworlds Of Inner-city Los Angeles And The Wastelands Of Mexico. When Bosch Arrives At A Sleazy Hotel Room Where A Fellow Officer Has Committed Suicide, He Senses That Something Is Awry. Noncommittal Superior Officers, A Diffident Widow And Tales Linking The Dead Man To A Newly Created Street Drug Called “black Ice”” (heroin, Crack And Pcp Rolled Into One) Send Bosch Down A Winding Trail Of Forensic Impossibilities, Brutally Violent Drug Traffickers And An Ultimately Shocking Case Of Mistaken Identity. Award-winning Connelly”s Second Fictional Effort Is Strong And Sure. His Pacing Could Be Better–too Often He Conveys The Same Information Twice–but His Plot And Characters More Than Make Up For A Slow Start. This Novel Establishes Him As A Writer With A Superior Talent For Storytelling. (june)