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Angels Flight (Harry Bosch Book 6) (English Edition) Versión Kindle
A lawyer is found murdered on the eve of a landmark trial at the foot of Angels Flight in the heart of downtown Los Angeles. The superb sixth Harry Bosch novel from the award-winning No. 1 bestselling author. BOSCH TV STARTS FEBRUARY 2015.
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 twelve-year-old girl. Elias had let it be known that the aim of his civil case was not only to reveal the real killer but to target and bring down the racist cops who beat up his client during a violent interrogation.
Now it's all down to Bosch - and he's got to take a long, hard look at some of his colleagues in a police department that is rife with suspicion and hatred.
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Angels Flight
By Connelly, MichaelGrand Central Publishing
Copyright © 2011 Connelly, MichaelAll right reserved.
ISBN: 9780446582773
1
The word sounded alien in his mouth, as if spoken by someone else. There was an urgency in his own voice that Bosch didn’t recognize. The simple hello he had whispered into the telephone was full of hope, almost desperation. But the voice that came back to him was not the one he needed to hear.
“Detective Bosch?”
For a moment Bosch felt foolish. He wondered if the caller had recognized the faltering of his voice.
“This is Lieutenant Michael Tulin. Is this Bosch?”
The name meant nothing to Bosch and his momentary concern about how he sounded was ripped away as an awful dread entered his mind.
“This is Bosch. What is it? What’s wrong?”
“Hold please for Deputy Chief Irving.”
“What is—”
The caller clicked off and there was only silence. Bosch now remembered who Tulin was—Irving’s adjutant. Bosch stood still and waited. He looked around the kitchen; only the dim oven light was on. With one hand he held the phone hard against his ear, the other he instinctively brought up to his stomach, where fear and dread were twisting together. He looked at the glowing numbers on the stove clock. It was almost two, five minutes past the last time he had looked at it. This isn’t right, he thought as he waited. They don’t do this by phone. They come to your door. They tell you this face-to-face.
Finally, Irving picked up on the other end of the line.
“Detective Bosch?”
“Where is she? What happened?”
Another moment of excruciating silence went by as Bosch waited. His eyes were closed now.
“Excuse me?”
“Just tell me, what happened to her? I mean… is she alive?”
“Detective, I’m not sure what it is you are talking about. I’m calling because I need to muster your team as soon as possible. I need you for a special assignment.”
Bosch opened his eyes. He looked through the kitchen window into the dark canyon below his house. His eyes followed the slope of the hill down toward the freeway and then up again to the slash of Hollywood lights he could see through the cut of the Cahuenga Pass. He wondered if each light meant someone awake and waiting for someone who wasn’t going to come. Bosch saw his own reflection in the window. He looked weary. He could make out the deep circles etched beneath his eyes, even in the dark glass.
“I have an assignment, Detective,” Irving repeated impatiently. “Are you able to work or are you—”
“I can work. I just was mixed up there for a moment.”
“Well, I’m sorry if I woke you. But you should be used to it.”
“Yes. It’s no problem.”
Bosch didn’t tell him that he hadn’t been awakened by the call. That he had been roaming around in his dark house waiting.
“Then get it going, Detective. We’ll have coffee down here at the scene.”
“What scene?”
“We’ll talk about it when you get here. I don’t want to delay this any further. Call your team. Have them come to Grand Street between Third and Fourth. The top of Angels Flight. Do you know where I’m talking about?”
“Bunker Hill? I don’t—”
“It will be explained when you get here. Seek me out when you are here. If I am at the bottom come down to me before you speak with anyone.”
“What about Lieutenant Billets? She should—”
“She will be informed about what is happening. We’re wasting time. This is not a request. It is a command. Get your people together and get down here. Am I making myself clear to you?”
“You’re clear.”
“Then I will be expecting you.”
Irving hung up without waiting for a reply. Bosch stood with the phone still at his ear for a few moments, wondering what was going on. Angels Flight was the short inclined railroad that carried people up Bunker Hill in downtown—far outside the boundaries of the Hollywood Division homicide table. If Irving had a body down there at Angels Flight the investigation would fall under the jurisdiction of Central Division. If Central detectives couldn’t handle it because of caseload or personnel problems, or if the case was deemed too important or media sensitive for them, then it would be bumped to the bulls, the Robbery-Homicide Division. The fact that a deputy chief of police was involved in the case before dawn on a Saturday suggested the latter possibility. The fact that he was calling Bosch and his team in instead of the RHD bulls was the puzzle. Whatever it was that Irving had working at Angels Flight didn’t make sense.
Bosch glanced once more down into the dark canyon, pulled the phone away from his ear and clicked it off. He wished he had a cigarette but he had made it this far through the night without one. He wouldn’t break now.
He turned his back and leaned on the counter. He looked down at the phone in his hand, turned it back on and hit the speed dial button that would connect him with Kizmin Rider’s apartment. He would call Jerry Edgar after he talked to her. Bosch felt a sense of relief come over him that he was reluctant to acknowledge. He might not yet know what awaited him at Angels Flight, but it would certainly take his thoughts away from Eleanor Wish.
Rider’s alert voice answered after two rings.
“Kiz, it’s Harry,” he said. “We’ve got work.”
Continues...
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A Connelly novel is a thing of cool beauty.--Chicago Tribune
Michael Connelly is the master of the universe in which he lives, and that is the sphere of crime thrillers. This man is so good at what he does.
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For those familiar with the “Bosch” TV series on Amazon, “Angels Flight” served as the basis for the show’s fourth season. However, for people who have seen the series but not read this book, their enjoyment won’t be spoiled by their prior experience. The resolution of the central mystery in the novel is quite different, and in my opinion, better and considerably more complex than on the TV show.
The Angels Flight referred to in the title of the novel is a well-known Los Angeles landmark, a cable car that goes up and down a nearly vertical incline in downtown Los Angeles. When Connelly wrote “Angels Flight” in 1999, the ride was in service, although it’s been closed on and off since then for various repairs (as I write this review in 2019, it’s open again). Although the ride is a tourist attraction, it’s also a method of transport for those who live in the area, like the novel’s Howard Elias, a black attorney who made quite a bit of money suing the LAPD on behalf of various suspects and defendants. His latest multimillion-dollar lawsuit was due to go to trial in a couple of days when a gunman put a permanent end to Elias’ career as he rode the train late one night. The LAPD brass realize that the case is potentially explosive since Elias was both a hero to many in the black community and a man despised and vilified by many cops. Of course, Bosch gets assigned the case, and he soon finds that maneuvering past all the departmental and city politics involved is even more challenging than finding the killer.
As a mystery, “Angels Flight” is quite good, with Connelly throwing in some classic bits like cryptic messages that Bosch finds in Elias’ office which need to be deciphered. The final reveal in the last couple of chapters is fairly surprising as well, as the author covers his tracks well when he leaves a handful of clues behind. But “Angels Flight” is about far more than figuring out who killed Howard Elias. Instead, it’s a study in the murky gray area where law enforcement and politics collide. In 1999, when “Angels Flight” is set, Los Angeles was still dealing with the aftermath of the Rodney King and O.J. Simpson cases, so Bosch’s superiors in the story were acutely aware of the possible repercussions of Elias’ murder and how it might play out among the black community, especially if a cop was implicated in the killing. So, the book becomes somewhat of a tightrope act that Bosch and his superiors work, torn between the effort to find the killer and the need to keep the peace in the city, along with a good bit of cynical self-dealing by some of the characters in the book. This makes for a fascinating, compelling read that easily eclipses the actual murder mystery in terms of engaging readers. Many readers will not enjoy the book’s rather cynical ending, but that’s the sign of an excellent book. Connelly is not afraid to deny readers the pat happy ending they typically want in favor of a murkier and more realistic one.
Connelly also takes the time to give readers assorted bits and pieces of police business that don’t advance the actual case at hand but do make the novel feel more real. One great example is his discussion of one of Bosch’s earlier cases, one that the press dubbed the “hard-boiled egg” case. As Bosch reluctantly recounts the story, it was the presence of hard-boiled eggs at the scene of a suspicious death that enabled him to determine what actually occurred there. Unlike some writers who strive for “authenticity” by burying readers with mountains of researched detail, Connelly gives just enough to make the action seem real without detracting from the pace of the book.
One aspect of “Angels Flight” that will probably garner some chuckles for readers in 2019 that weren’t there when the book was first published is its depiction of now-badly outdated technology. In 1999, lots of police still used pagers instead of cell phones (which figures into the plot on a couple of occasions), and Bosch seems to be a complete Luddite regarding the use of personal computers and the Internet. As a result, one of the younger, more technically savvy detectives on the case has to give him a crash course that winds up being rather amusing when read today. The investigation in the Elias case eventually uncovers some Internet-based criminal activity, and, at the time, probably surprised and shocked some readers that it even existed. Today, that sort of activity still goes on, but the mechanism portrayed in “Angels Flight” seems almost archaic.
Apart from some badly dated technological references, though, “Angels Flight” remains as cutting edge today as it was 20 years ago. The politics and the intrigue are just as fresh, and the moral dilemmas that Bosch faces as he tries to wade his way through the case are just as troubling for him and the readers. The entire novel takes place over a week, but readers will completely lose track of time, both in terms of Bosch’s progress on the case and their own in reading the book. The book is a good introduction to Connelly and Bosch, as its plot isn’t overly reliant on events in earlier books. But the best reason I can give for recommending “Angels Flight” is that it’s just a top-notch novel.
WAHNSINN.
Insgesamt eine wirklich packende und erschreckend aktuelle Geschichte voller Irrungen und Wirrungen über einen (politischen?) Mord. Boschs Privatleben tritt nun wieder ein wenig zurück, was ich persönlich positiv finde, da ich der Person der E. Wisch nicht viel abgewinnen kann.