An excellent mystery & main character, if a bit dour. I really liked the amount of detail & logic in this. Great twists & very realistic. Even the 'bad' guys were well done or maybe they were especially well done. Not all were as bad as I first thought - jerks, but they had reasons. Again, very realistic. On to the next in the series. Suffice to say I learned a lot about tunnels in Vietnam and L.A. No wonder the world is full of sinkholes these days. I’ve also read about the people who hid in enormous underground cave systems during WWII, so I’m wondering how many levels of the planet we could actually be living on. I digress yet again. SÍ me gustan Camilleri, Gómez Jurado, Lorenzo Silva, Winslow, Eva García, Follett, Le Carré, Carmen Mola, Forsyth, Barker, Géllida, Kerr, Larsson, Redondo (alguno), Rosa Montero, Zafón. He decidido entrar en el Universo Harry Bosch por el principio, y me he llevado una grata sorpresa. Me he encontrado una novela policiaca clásica que, pese a ser una de las primeras del autor, está sólidamente construida y que permite adivinar que lo que queda por delante (nada menos que 25 libros, sólo de esta serie), va a ser intensamente disfrutable. The suspect’s death.” That’s the practically-public-enemy I mentioned earlier, the one Bosch claimed might have been reaching for a gun when Bosch ‘stopped’ him. (Or ‘topped’ him?) They should have given him a medal for taking the guy off the streets, but the law doesn’t work that way.

Punto adicional por la sensación vintage que se produce al leer esta novela 25 años después de su primera publicación (máquinas de escribir, bíper, teléfonos públicos, fumar en las oficinas) y por abordar el triste panorama que tuvieron que enfrentar los veteranos de Vietnam.A Fine Mist of Blood, 2012 - Harry Bosch Short Story, published in Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance(April 2012) StarWars.com: ARC Trooper Echo is breaking my heart. You captured a stunning likeness from the pre-Season 7 episodes of the animated series. How does this figure differ from the other Clone Troopers that have come before it in this line? Closing paragraph: Bosch hung the print in the hallway near his front door, and from time to time he would stop and study it when he came in, particularly from a weary day or night on the job. The painting never failed to fascinate him, or to evoke memories of Eleanor Wish. The darkness. The stark loneliness. The man sitting alone, his face turned to the shadows. I am that man, Harry Bosch would think each time he looked. Evidentemente este primer libro no es totalmente redondo, empieza a perfilarse nuestro protagonista, Harry Bosch (Hieronymus, como el pintor, realmente, pincelada de humor americano). Acosado por las consecuencias de un caso anterior, ha sido "desterrado" de la Brigada Especial de Homicidios al Departamento de Homicidios y Robos de la Policía de Hollywood en Los Ángeles. Solitario, insomne y un poco amargado, se encuentra con un caso que lo retrotrae a su terrible pasado en la Guerra de Vietnam, como soldado especializado en el rastreo de túneles del Vietcong. A partir de este punto, se despliega toda una trama investigadora, en general bien hilada, con partes en las que se pierde un poco el interés y la intensidad de la investigación (supongo que esto irá mejorando en los siguientes libros), en la que tendrá que enfrentarse a sus propios demonios y donde todo el mundo parece tener algo que ocultar. Este libro fue escrito en 1992 (hace caso 30 años), es decir, en la era pre-móvil, es muy llamativo como se tienen que ir apañando los investigadores, buscado cabinas telefónicas, con avisos al busca y dejándose mensajes. Qué rápido ha pasado el tiempo y como ha cambiado la tecnología. Otro de los puntos fuertes de empezar la serie por el principio será ver como se van adaptando los investigadores a los nuevos tiempos y a las nuevas tecnologías (el último libro de la serie salió en 2019).

Harry’s a Vietnam vet, suffers badly, sleeps poorly, enjoys a drink, and lives on coffee and cigarettes. So he’s ready to go see a body anytime, day or night. Is he okay? The psych evaluation after his shooting seems to hedge its bets. Each man was built wide and low to the ground for better handling. Each had a slightly forward tilt to his body, as if he were wading out to sea, crashing through breakers with his face.”

The dark underpinnings of Bosch's meticulously crafted complex character start here - his disdain for authority; his unwillingness to fit the mould of the "police family"; the troubled nature of a psyche that is undoubtedly all too common in Vietnam veterans; his fear of surrendering to an unconditional love; the disturbing family history that began with his birth to a hooker who was subsequently murdered and his childhood travails at the hands of government agencies; the surprising extent of Bosch's visceral reaction to the murder of a street punk. Pathos is presented without pity or despair and Bosch emerges a very real and very human police officer indeed. The book opens with a young kid tagging a big pipe in the middle of the night when he hears a vehicle and hides in time to see someone drag a body into the pipe. He makes an anonymous call to the cops and hightails it out of there. Dead body. Anakin Skywalker, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and more from the animated series join the action figure line celebrating Lucasfilm's 50th anniversary. Star Wars fans and collectors can display this fully articulated 6-inch action figure featuring poseable head, arms, and legs, as well as premium deco, in their collections