Harry Bosch · Book 2
The Black Ice
- Published
- 1 June 1993
- Pages
- 322
- ISBN-13
- 9780759565463
- Type
- novel
About this book
The second Harry Bosch novel, The Black Ice (1993), finds the LAPD detective again clashing with institutional convenience while working a case through Michael Connelly's Los Angeles of freeways, hillsides and jazz. At 322 pages, it's a lean early entry from before the series' storylines began interlocking with Connelly's wider crime universe.
Its place in Harry Bosch
The Black Ice is book 2 in the Harry Bosch series. It follows The Black Echo. It is followed by The Concrete Blonde. 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 9781857974072
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781409157342
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