![]() But here Connelly fills in the backstory with critical depth and insight. We know he volunteered to fight, came out of the war and joined the police department. Into the tunnels of Cu Chi, onto a navy hospital ship in the East Vietnam Sea and back to home, accompanied by the ghosts of combat.Ĭertainly, we've gotten snippets of Bosch's past in earlier books. For the first time since he was introduced in 1992's The Black Echo, Bosch is propelled through his own wartime experiences.Ĭonnelly takes us with him. It marks a transition not just in the latest case, but also in character development. ![]() ![]() The scene in best-selling author Michael Connelly's latest thriller, The Wrong Side of Goodbye, is pivotal for the iconic Los Angeles homicide detective - and for readers of Connelly's seminal mystery series. ![]() He feels the familiar rush take hold, his purpose he has a new case, a new mission. ![]() He carefully unspools it, holds it up to the light, scans the image. In the glow of a flashlight, he finds a time capsule from Vietnam: books, a Zippo lighter, a cassette recorder and a roll of developed film stashed inside a camera. Detective Harry Bosch cracks open a dead soldier's footlocker that for five decades has been collecting dust in a dark Southern California attic. ![]()
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