The Last Coyote (Harry Bosch)
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Early in the Harry Bosch series - 1995.
LAPD detective Bosch is taking an enforced leave of absence after physically attacking his supervisor. His hotheadedness has earned him a stint with a therapist, who has the power to say when (and if) he is ready to return to work. Bosch resents these shrink visits and initially does not cooperate with Dr. Carmen Hinojos. Eventually he does reveal some of his interior turmoil to the doctor, including his current unauthorized mission: finding the killer of his mother.
Los Angeles has just been through a doozy of an earthquake and Bosch's cliff-dwelling house has been red-tagged, determined unfit for dwelling. He defies the building inspector and sneaks in every night anyway, and even makes repairs while he waits for his lawyer to appeal the building division's determination.
Never one to go by the book, Bosch uses his considerable skills to obtain the dead file on his mother's murder, from more than 30 years before, and from there tracks leads. It's clear from the outset that parts of the file are missing so he is suspicious that the apparent lack of effort on the part of the investigators might have been forced by some other hand.
While Harry is in Florida talking to one lead, he meets an unusual woman by random chance. He is immediately attracted and the attraction helps him shut out the pain of a former lover's leaving. This part of the story threatens to continue in future novels.
What is particularly interesting in the Harry Bosch series is how the written is blended with the unwritten, how incidents from the past that are never specifically the subject of one of the novels are nevertheless woven into the fabric of Bosch's life. It is hard to differentiate where a novel begins and ends, in a sense.
What I enjoy, in addition to this lifelike style, are the details of place and the details of Bosch's personality. I have at times found him hard to like because of his tendency to act first and think later and because of his distancing techniques. It is hard for him to be nice to others - he is suspicious all the time. So he alienates his co-workers, other department personnel, his lovers, you name it, and at times he alienates me as well. Yet there is a core of dedication to the truth that assures us that he might skip the protocol but he'll always, in his way, be highly ethical. There is also a core of hurt that can't be ignored, a hunger to be understood even while he denies it. He's a complex person.
LAPD detective Bosch is taking an enforced leave of absence after physically attacking his supervisor. His hotheadedness has earned him a stint with a therapist, who has the power to say when (and if) he is ready to return to work. Bosch resents these shrink visits and initially does not cooperate with Dr. Carmen Hinojos. Eventually he does reveal some of his interior turmoil to the doctor, including his current unauthorized mission: finding the killer of his mother.
Los Angeles has just been through a doozy of an earthquake and Bosch's cliff-dwelling house has been red-tagged, determined unfit for dwelling. He defies the building inspector and sneaks in every night anyway, and even makes repairs while he waits for his lawyer to appeal the building division's determination.
Never one to go by the book, Bosch uses his considerable skills to obtain the dead file on his mother's murder, from more than 30 years before, and from there tracks leads. It's clear from the outset that parts of the file are missing so he is suspicious that the apparent lack of effort on the part of the investigators might have been forced by some other hand.
While Harry is in Florida talking to one lead, he meets an unusual woman by random chance. He is immediately attracted and the attraction helps him shut out the pain of a former lover's leaving. This part of the story threatens to continue in future novels.
What is particularly interesting in the Harry Bosch series is how the written is blended with the unwritten, how incidents from the past that are never specifically the subject of one of the novels are nevertheless woven into the fabric of Bosch's life. It is hard to differentiate where a novel begins and ends, in a sense.
What I enjoy, in addition to this lifelike style, are the details of place and the details of Bosch's personality. I have at times found him hard to like because of his tendency to act first and think later and because of his distancing techniques. It is hard for him to be nice to others - he is suspicious all the time. So he alienates his co-workers, other department personnel, his lovers, you name it, and at times he alienates me as well. Yet there is a core of dedication to the truth that assures us that he might skip the protocol but he'll always, in his way, be highly ethical. There is also a core of hurt that can't be ignored, a hunger to be understood even while he denies it. He's a complex person.
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Given to my friend Paul.
Given to my friend Paul.
