Harry Bosch · Book 1
The Black Echo
- Published
- 21 January 1992
- Pages
- 457
- ISBN-13
- 9780312950484
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Black Echo (1992) opens the Harry Bosch series, introducing Michael Connelly's LAPD homicide detective through a case that reaches back into Bosch's own history as a Vietnam-era tunnel rat. At 457 pages, it establishes the code -- everybody counts or nobody counts -- that will drive Bosch through more than three decades of novels to come.
Its place in Harry Bosch
The Black Echo is book 1 in the Harry Bosch series. It is followed by The Black Ice. See the full Harry Bosch reading order.
Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch is an LAPD homicide detective shaped by abandonment: orphaned son of a murdered Hollywood prostitute, Vietnam "tunnel rat," institutional survivor. His code — everybody counts or nobody counts — makes him relentless on behalf of victims nobody else will fight for, and insubordinate toward every boss, bureaucracy and political convenience in Los Angeles. Michael Connelly introduced him in The Black Echo (1992), a case that reaches back into Bosch's Vietnam tunnels, and has aged him in real…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780316153614
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754090731
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9780754016595