Nine Dragons de Michael Connelly

Nine Dragons: A Harry Bosch Novel, cartea 14

Autor Michael Connelly

en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 oct 2009

O crimă banală într-un magazin din South L.A. declanșează un mecanism letal. Considerăm că în Nine Dragons, miza nu mai este doar dreptatea, ci supraviețuirea personală. Michael Connelly îl scoate pe Harry Bosch din zona de confort a străzilor din Los Angeles și îl aruncă în haosul din Hong Kong. Timpul expiră. O persoană dragă este dispărută. Triadele chinezești nu negociază. Notăm o schimbare radicală de ritm: de la investigația procedurală minuțioasă la o cursă contracronometru printre zgârie-nori străini. Apreciem modul în care autorul folosește festivalul Hungry Ghosts ca fundal pentru o vânătoare umană disperată. Cititorul care a apreciat explorarea trecutului întunecat și a traumelor din City Of Bones va găsi aici aceeași intensitate emoțională, dar într-un context internațional mult mai violent. Dacă în The Lincoln Lawyer tensiunea se construia în sala de judecată, aici ea explodează în stradă. Bosch este singur, fără insignă, fără sprijin oficial, forțat să încalce orice regulă pentru a recupera ce a pierdut. Este un volum pivot în serie, unde vulnerabilitatea detectivului devine principala sa armă și, totodată, cel mai mare risc. Stilul este tăios, frazele sunt scurte, iar atmosfera este încărcată de o urgență aproape fizică.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780316071048
ISBN-10: 0316071048
Pagini: 544
Dimensiuni: 155 x 236 x 46 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Ediția:Text mare
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Little Brown and Company
Seria A Harry Bosch Novel

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm acest roman pentru ritmul său cinematic și miza personală extrem de ridicată. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nouă asupra lui Harry Bosch, pus în fața unei culturi necunoscute și a unei amenințări care îi vizează familia. Este lectura ideală pentru cei care caută un roman polițist care depășește granițele genului procedural, oferind o experiență viscerală de tip thriller internațional.

Despre autor

Michael Connelly este unul dintre cei mai apreciați autori americani de romane polițiste, celebru pentru crearea detectivului Harry Bosch și a avocatului Mickey Haller. Cu peste 74 de milioane de exemplare vândute la nivel mondial, opera sa a fost tradusă în 40 de limbi și a inspirat seriale de succes precum „BOSCH” pe Amazon Prime. Fost reporter de investigații, Connelly aduce o precizie documentară scrierilor sale, fiind premiat cu prestigiosul Edgar Award încă de la debutul său cu „The Black Echo”.

Descriere scurtă

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.

Notă biografică

MichaelConnelly is the author of thirty-eight previous novels, including #1 NewYorkTimes bestsellers Desert Star, TheDarkHours, and The Law of Innocence. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch:Legacy, and TheLincolnLawyer. He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Harry Bosch is alone, without backup - and this time the case is personal. From the No. 1 bestselling author of The Lincoln Lawyer. Features in Amazon Prime's BOSCH TV series.

The shooting of a Chinese liquor store owner in LA brings Harry Bosch back to the Rodney King riots and the moment a stranger gave a young cop sanctuary. Now the debt must be repaid, and Harry soon discovers the old man's death was no ordinary hold-up.

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.

Recenzii

Nine Dragons ignites Bosch's personal and professional lives, bringing them together in an explosive manner....Harry's feverish race against the clock and the international dateline...plunges the reader into a firestorm of danger and tragedy....To say that Nine Dragons is coiled tight with suspense understates Connelly's accomplishment in portraying Bosch at the cusp of a new world."—Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times
"A Michael Connelly novel is a thing of cool beauty, meticulously plotted, rigorously controlled....In Nine Dragons, Bosch's crisp, cold-eyed rationality is blown to smithereens. Stoicism goes right out the window. And the vivid drama of this contrast gives the novel its ferocious energy. Once under way, you can't stop reading Nine Dragons, and not just because you want to know whodunit. You want to know how Bosch is going to operate in a whole new kind of darkness."—Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune
"May be the most wrenching Bosch novel yet....The jagged intersection between a cop's personal and professional lives is a recurring theme in many crime novels, but never has it been portrayed with the razor-edge sharpness and psychological acuity that Connelly brings to the subjects. And that's layered underneath the nonstop action of the novel's last half-the kind of full-throttle, blood-spattered narrative road race one associates with Lee Child or Stephen Hunter."—Bill Ott, Booklist
"Engrossing...one of the best in this series. Nine Dragons works as a gripping police procedural, an intense character study and an international thriller....Connelly is one of the best living crime writers and the consistency of his work continues through Nine Dragons."—Oline H. Cogdill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
"Bosch is back...this latest appearance is a complex and meticulously crafted tale...packed with jump and juice....This is Bosch at his sharpest and Connelly at his most engaging. High-voltage stuff."—Katherine Dunn, Oregonian
"Bestseller Connelly nimbly balances Harry Bosch's personal and professional lives....Tenacious as ever, Bosch is even more formidable in his role as a protective father."—Publishers Weekly
"Connelly unveils his most personal Bosch story yet with this fish-out-of-water story. The pages fly...another Connelly masterpiece."—Jeff Ayers, Library Journal
"Remarkably fine....With Nine Dragons, Connelly has taken a chance by transforming a character millions have come to know well. In doing so, he has made Harry Bosch more human and interesting than ever."—Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press
"Connelly is in top form with the Bosch tale, his 15th: the story unfolds with exquisite procedural details; unexpected violence; and increased insight into the stoic, jazz-loving, relentless, flawed detective who bears the burden of every case."—Nancy Gilson, Columbus Dispatch