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Nine Dragons (Harry Bosch Book 14) Kindle Edition
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Homing in on clues disregarded by the cops on the scene, Harry builds a picture of corruption and intimidation, with the local Triads at the heart of it. But as he tries to build a case and breach the impenetrable wall of silence in the local community, he finds he is taking a dragon by the tail - a dragon whose talons reach well beyond LA, and even the States.
Suddenly the most precious thing in Harry's life is under threat, and he will need to leave the familiarity of his home turf, alone and without backup, if he is going to stop his worst nightmare from happening.
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherAllen & Unwin
- Publication date1 September 2010
- File size1500 KB
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As always, Connelly hs produced another master class in detective fiction. (CATHOLIC HERALD) --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.
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- ASIN : B0065UELIQ
- Publisher : Allen & Unwin (1 September 2010)
- Language : English
- File size : 1500 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 371 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: 9,038 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of over thirty novels and one work of nonfiction. With over eighty million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty-five foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and his fiction. His very first novel, The Black Echo, won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1998 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent New York Times bestsellers include The Law Of Innocence, Fair Warning, The Night Fire, Dark Sacred Night, Two Kinds Of Truth, and The Late Show. Michael is the executive producer of Bosch, an Amazon Studios original drama series based on his bestselling character Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver and streaming on Amazon Prime. He is also the executive producer of the documentary films, "Sound Of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story' and 'Tales Of the American.' He spends his time in California and Florida.
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I found the tension and pace of the story relentless and there are a number of quite unexpected twists in the plot which will appeal to budding armchair detectives. However, for me, the outstanding quality of this story lies with its characterisation of Bosch. In this story he is like a fish out of water on a number of levels; his personal life receives a lot more coverage, particularly his father-daughter relationship which until now had been somewhat distant. The story is set in South Los Angeles and Hong Kong, both areas where Bosch feels less 'at home'. He is a lot more stressed in this book for a number of reasons that I will not mention as I do not want to reveal too much of the plot, but his trusted coping mechanisms are being stretched to the limit in this story. There are also a couple of events that hit him hard personally (as they probably would most people) and which strike without warning, catching us readers by surprise. In short, he appears much more vulnerable and less self-assured in this story than in any of the previous ones in the series.
However, the aspect of this book that some readers may find irritating relates to what Harry is able to achieve in Hong Kong in a very short space of time given the extremely sparse information he has at his fingertips and his ability to function with virtually no sleep and no jet-lag. The impression is that he is working virtually solely on adrenaline and conjecture. This did not spoil the story for me but unlike many previous stories in the series, made this one just a little less credible.
Overall however, I found this story really engaging. It contains the usual elements one expects to find in a Harry Bosch story - plenty of action, a few red herrings and blind alleys, and lots of page-turning tension. But unlike many of the more recent stories in the series (to date), this one has a much greater focus on Harry's character, his vulnerabilities, and his personal life which, for me, provided a whole new dimension to the series.

For me I find it sad that his use of the English Language is Americanised but I guess many of his readers are American. One of the worst for me is the word 'Gotten', there is of course no such word in correct English. The storyline more than makes up for this. I recommend reading the books in the correct order, although they are predominately stand alone books, there is a degree of follow on.



Book number fifteen in the series see's Bosch trawling the mean backstreets of Hong Kong in search of his daughter, while trying to figure out how see figures into a triad case back in Los Angles. The further Bosch digs into her disappearance the more dangerous the outcome for all involved, leaving Bosch with more heavy burdens to bare.