“Echo Park Area had disappeared from their world. As a child, had lived for a time with his mother in Apartments Sir Palmer … but times had not been happy for her or him, and now almost totally disappeared his memory. ”
In 2002 when Harry Bosch quit the LAPD (Police Department Los Angeles) records photocopied some cases failed to resolve at the time and continued to haunt him. One of the records that he took home was that of Marie Gesto, who disappeared in 1993. Despite suspecting for years the son of a prominent businessman, he could not prove his involvement in the crime.
After returning to the Police (Last Resort), works with Kiz Rider at the elite unit of open cases. 13 years after the disappearance of Marie Gesto, a serial murderer arrested by chance, Raynard Waits, will incriminate his death from a lender and other crimes. It aims to negotiate with his confession, through their counsel, the prosecution and avoid the death penalty. Bosch has the opportunity to finally clarify a case that during that time has not been forgotten, but as a result of a disastrous police operation Waits escapes after killing several officers and severely wounding Rider.
With the help of Rachel Walling, the FBI agent specialist in psychological profiling, and also his former lover, Harry Bosch psychopath locates and kills him. Still, the Gesto case is not resolved.
One of the biggest surprises of this novel is Harry Bosch to find a supporter of the death penalty. Given the horrific crimes committed by Waits, proclaims that this is a guy who should not be let live. In the end, he was personally responsible for ending their life. In some of his novels (The concrete blonde or the innocent) Connelly quotes Nietzsche: “If you fight against monsters, you will be one of them. If you look into the abyss, the abyss will return the gaze. “When the night Darker than Terry McCaleb develops a psychological profile of Bosch describes it as” avenging angel “and adds” is too close to the abyss. Danger of falling into it. ”
Is Bosch has finally become one of the monsters that fight? The question would be unimaginable in the early novels of character. We look forward to the evolution of our detective, to human after all. So far, Rachel Walling just running away from him with horror.
In addition, Michael Connelly, who publicly claims to admire the novels of Thomas Harris featuring Hannibal Lecter (referred to in this novel), she ventures into a genre, the psychopaths, which in my opinion, is not its best record, as demonstrated by the Poet or evil Channels. lla Echo Park reaches high note when the author expresses the characteristics of the crime novel: social conscience, corrupt police and prosecutors, political ambition, candidate bribed …
