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Harry Bosch
Created by Michael Connelly
"No, not Harry Bosch," he said quietly... "It's always just what he wants. He's always been a private investigator, even when he carried a badge."
(an FBI agent on how Harry works, from Lost Light)
EDITOR'S NOTE: And after eight novels with a badge, Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch is finally an official PI, with both a California license and first person narration. It's such a seismic shockwave in crime fiction circles that it took not one, but two contributors (both die-hard Connelly fans) to give me the whole scoop. My sincere thanks to both Kelly Levendorf and Dale Stoyer for filling us in, and for being stand-up guys about it.
HIERONYMOUS "HARRY" BOSCH was named after a 15th century painter infamous for his richly detailed landscapes of wanton debauchery and imaginatively graphic violence. Our Harry, meanwhile, grew up in Los Angeles, largely an orphan and occasionally in foster care after his mother was arrested for prostitution and later murdered. Following a stint in Vietnam as a "tunnel rat," he became a police officer, eventually rising through the ranks to become a Homicide Detective-Three in the LAPD.
But Harry is more than just a cop -- he's a man with a mission, a mission to, in his own words, "speak for the dead." With a single-mindedness for doing right that is equal parts passion and arrogance, Connelly's most famous character has brilliantly succeeded ("homicide is a calling, not a career"), closing both politically sensitive and long unsolved cases, including the decades old murder of his own mother. But often at great personal and professional cost to Harry. This is definitely a series to read chronologically, as Connelly uses elements hinted at in several books to great effect in those that follow. The first eight books in this series follow Harry through some of his adventures as an LAPD Detective, although he spends much of that time serving out suspensions or struggling to keep what's left of his career.
Lost Light (2003), the ninth book in the series brings dramatic changes into Harry's life (and, coincidentally, is his first adventure in first person narrative). He's no longer a cop, but has retired after twenty-eight years, taking a whole slew of his unsolved cases with him. He has a PI license but isn't sure he wants to use it. What he really wants is to continiue to speak for the dead. And although the book ends on a note indicative of a major change in Harry's life, it would seem that mission is far too deeply rooted in Harry's psyche for him to ever completely retire.
Michael Connelly first burst upon the scene with The Black Echo in 1992, which promptly nabbed the Edgar for Best First Mystery of that year. But it was a goal which Connelly had long been aiming tfor, ever since he was a student at the University of Florida back in the seventies, where he had discovered the books of Raymond Chandler. After graduating in 1980, having majored in journalism with a minor in creative writing, Connelly worked at various newspapers in Florida, mostly working the crime beat. A magazine story he co-wrote on a major airplane crash was later short-listed for the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing, and helped land him a job as a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times. The Black Echo, which introduced Harry Bosch, was his first novel.
Более подробно здесь:
http://www.thrillingdetective.com/eyes/bosch.htmlP.S. У меня есть все переведенные книги о Босхе, но одолел я только "Черное эхо".
За что же все так любят Коннелли?
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