The Overlook (Harry Bosch) | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Vision
Category: Book
List Price: $7.99
Buy Used: $0.01
You Save: $7.98 (100%)
New (53) Used (118) Collectible (2) from $0.01
Avg. Customer Rating:  183 reviews
Sales Rank: 3487
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 3.9 x 1
ISBN: 0446401307
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446401302
ASIN: 0446401307
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: Expedited shipping available
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Stained Edges;stained cover Giving great service since 2004: Buy from the Best! 4,000,000 items shipped to delighted customers. We have 1,000,000 unique items ready to ship! Find your Great Buy today!
|
| Also Available In:
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city.
Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against the culprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the form of Harry's one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Bosch's job to prove all of them wrong.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 178 more reviews...
 Reviewed for Midwest Book Review July 1, 2008
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
LAPD detective Harry Bosh has a new job in the Homicide Special division, which handles murders with political, celebrity or media connections, or those called hobby cases, which are difficult to solve and take much time. His first call out involves a doctor killed at an overlook above Mulholland Dam. Bosch and his new partner, Ignacio Ferras, are surprised when the FBI shows up at the crime scene. The dead doctor worked with radioactive materials and the FBI thinks his murder is tied to a terrorist plot to build and activate a dirty bomb in Los Angeles. When they learn that radioactive material has been stolen from the doctor, the case shifts to investigate the terrorists who took the substance instead of who killed the doctor. But Bosch thinks there's more to this murder than what's obvious.
Harry Bosch is once more at odds with the FBI and his own police department, but this relentless detective will not back down and pursues his own investigation in his own way. Bosch is an edgy man with a rebellious streak, a detective whose skills continue to keep him in good standing with the upper echelons of the police department, although he always manages to alienate most of those around him. Although this mystery is relatively easy for the reader to solve, the plot is tight and suspenseful, and takes place within a 12-hour time span.
Connelly's Slipping? June 15, 2008
I love the Harry Bosch character. But this book does not do him justice. I just got the impression reading this that it is not as good as earlier Bosch novels. Maybe Connelly should have pensioned him off and left it that. It seems that resurrecting him might have been an error. Maybe Harry needs one really big case to finish his career off. His FBI love interest needs to go also.
 Again, Michael Connelly at his best... in stretching for home base... May 17, 2008
Fifteen years ago author Michael Connelly introduced Harry Bosch in the first book of a best-selling series... 'The Black Echo'. Impresario LAPD detective Bosch is now with the Homicide Special Squad, breaking in a new partner, novice Ignacio 'Iggy' Ferras, and re-connected with FBI Agent Rachel Walling (Harry's past lover). The victim took two shots to the head... a pro job -- a medical physicist, who worked at the medical facility with material used in treating cancer. And in the wrong hands, it is a deadly weapon. The perps had used the threat of harming Kent's wife if he didn't cooperate, and give them what they want. Jesse Mitford from Canada is a stranger to LA, looking for celeb autographs to send home to mom, and he's a witness found by Bosch and partner on the property and at the scene of the crime. Bosch battles with his own conscience of detecting methods, keeping just enough from some troublesome and interfering FBI know-it-alls. Bosch is told, "...It is actually much more than [a homicide investigation]...it serves the federal government extremely well with this thing on the overlook being part of a terrorism plot.... You've got the Middle East, the price of a gallon of gasoline and a lame-duck president's approval ratings.... [here] is an opportunity for redemption. ...A chance to shirt public attention and opinion. ...A case like this, you have to broaden your political landscape." Bold and not-to-be-taken for a fool or advantage of, Bosch retorts: "Are you saying that they might try to keep this think going, maybe even exaggerate the threat?" Is it a terrorism plot? Find out when the not-so-innocents among the players are under suspicion, but you'll have to read the book to capture it all as only Connelly can deliver, with a red herring thrown in, oh, a frame-up too. 'The Overlook' is a character-driven mystery, which Connelly never falters in providing a well-groomed cast, plot, on the tip-of-your toes read, as you burn the midnight-oil through suspense and action.
Josephine Kaszuba Locke, Book Hugger, Reviewer BookLoons.com
`We are all circling the drain' May 16, 2008
12 out of 15 found this review helpful
Harry Bosch is now assigned to Homicide Special: waiting for cases that are politically sensitive, have a level of media interest, or are just too hot for the regular LAPD to handle. Harry's first case with Homicide Special, it quickly becomes apparent, combines all three of these ingredients.
An execution style murder, the theft of significant quantities of a potentially deadly radioactive chemical and the involvement of multiple agencies all place pressure on Harry's capacity to work the murder case effectively. Harry himself is dedicated to finding the murderer while those in the agencies around him are intent on exploring terrorist possibilities. Harry, of course, is not above redefining co-operation to suit the needs of his case and, by following the evidence rather than speculation solves the murder. A case, perhaps, for the straightforward application of `all other things being equal, the simplest solution is the best' (the principle known as `Occam's Razor').
I enjoyed this relatively short Harry Bosch story. While it lacks some of the detailed writing of other Bosch novels, it was a great way to spend a couple of spare hours. While I worked out aspects of the solution before the end of the novel, there were sufficient loose ends to keep my attention until the end.
Jennifer Cameron-Smith
 Find the cesium by solving a murder May 15, 2008
A radiotherapist is shot to death on an overlook near his home. It looks like another "ordinary" homicide until it is discovered that right before his death he stole 26 ampoules of radioactive cesium from one of the hospitals where he worked. The cesium would be exchanged against his wife, who is kidnapped. All lights start flashing at the FBI, especially when a witness thinks he might have heard someone calling "Allah" at the moment of the shot. Harry Bosch is not only up against a murderer, but also against special terrorism units from both the FBI and his own LAPD. His mission is to find that killer, which he is sure will lead to the cesium, the mission of the terrorism units is to find the cesium, forget about the killer. In the end both are a little bit right and the solution is much more mundane, but also more sad, than one would initially expect.
Another one in the Harry Bosch series with Harry having yet another partner, but teaming up with the FBI agent Rachel Walling that we already met in previous books. Not the most nerve-wracking book of the series, but a solid piece of detective writing again.
|
|
|
