by Michael Connelly (Author)
Detective Hieryonymus 'Harry' Bosch finds himself yet again in charge of a case that no one else will touch. This time his job is to nail the killer of hot shot black lawyer Howard Elias. Elias has been found murdered on the eve of going to court on behalf of Michael Harris: a man the LAPD believes guilty of the rape and murder of a 12 year old girl. Elias had let it be known that the aim of his civil case was not only to reveal the real kiler but to target and bring down the racist cops who beat up his client during a violent interrogation. Bosch is going to have to take a long hard look at some of his colleagues in a post-Rodney King Los Angeles Police Department that is rife with suspicion and racial hatred.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 512
Edition: New
Publisher: Orion
Published: 01 Apr 1999
ISBN 10: 0752826204
ISBN 13: 9780752826202
Book Overview: * The latest and best Harry Bosch novel - the first in the series, THE BLACK ECHO, won the Edgar Award for best novel * BLOOD WORK sold over 60,000 copies in hardback and was a SUNDAY TIMES bestseller * All the Harry Bosch titles now in print with Orion in series livery - with sales totalling over half a million in paperback 'As good as it currently gets in US crime fiction. In Harry Bosch, Connelly has created an utterly believable character, a stubborn detective, world-weary but curiously devoid of cynicism...a direct descendent of Chandler's Philip Marlowe' GLASGOW HERALD
Prizes: Shortlisted for CWA Gold Dagger for Fiction 1999.