Nine Dragons
Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery.Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies...
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Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery.Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close in, he gets the word that his young daughter Maddie, who lives in Hong Kong with her mother, is missing.Bosch drops everything to journey across the Pacific to find his daughter. Could her disappearance and the case be connected? With the stakes of the investigation so high and so personal, Bosch is up against the clock in a new city, where nothing is at it seems.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780446561952 (0446561959)
ASIN: 446561959
Publish date: August 1st 2010
Publisher: Vision
Pages no: 480
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural,
Adult,
Mystery,
Detective,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Suspense,
Murder Mystery,
China,
Fiction
Well this is one of my least favorite Bosch books. We get Bosch just bumbling from the beginning of this book to the end. We have Connelly get rid of two characters we have been following for a number of books now in completely (IMHO) stupid ways, and I don't know, I think Bosch is just casually rac...
Yet the writer get wrong regarding the information. Hong Kong people speak Cantonese, not Mandarin. Although they do speak it, they didn't really want to. Hong Kong people write in traditional Chinese. So the tattoo should be in traditional Chinese and not simplified deformed form of Chinese. ...
Only three stars. Shocking! But this didn't feel like a real Bosch.
Harry Bosch rolls again - this time to Hong Kong. Nine Dragons is the Chinese translation for the area of Honk Kong called Kowloon. That is where the focus of the story takes place.Michael Connelly has crafted a complete character in his star, Harry. He is somebody that you will care about. Bosc...
Długo trzeba było czekać na kolejny tom z Harrym Boschem w roli głównego bohatera. Ostatnia taka książka to Punkt widokowy, który ukazał się u nas w 2008 roku. Rok później dostaliśmy jeszcze Ołowiany wyrok, ale tam ważniejszym bohaterem jest Mickey Haller, a Bosch stanowi dodatek, choć tak duży że k...