Book Description:
The man most hated by the LAPD a black lawyer who has made his name by bringing lawsuits alleging racism and brutality by police officers has been found murdered on the eve of a high profile trial. The list of suspects includes half the police force. And Harry Bosch is the detective chosen to lead the investigation.<br><br>The political dangers of the case are huge. If it's not investigated fairly, the public outcry could make the Rodney King riots look tame. But a full investigation will take Bosch into the ugliest corners of law enforcement.<br>To make matters worse, Bosch's wife, Eleanor, has disappeared. Bosch fears she has left him or succumbed to her gambling addiction. He's not sure which would be worse.<br><br>Angels Flight reads in a white heat. It continues to up the ante of the series that is 'raising the hard boiled detective novel to a new level adding substance and depth to modern crime fiction.' (Boston Globe) /Content /EditorialReview EditorialReview Source Amazon.com Review /Source Content Michael Connelly, whose novel <I>The Poet</I> won the 1997 Anthony Award for Best Mystery, is already recognized as one of the smartest and most vivid scribes of the hard boiled police procedural. Now, with his much anticipated sixth Harry Bosch novel, <I>Angels Flight</I>, Connelly offers one of the finest pieces of mystery writing to appear in 1998. Bosch is awakened in the middle of the night and, out of rotation, he is assigned to the murder investigation of the high profile African American attorney Howard Elias. When Bosch arrives at the scene, it seems that almost the entire LAPD is present, including the IAD (the Internal Affairs Division). Elias, who made a career out of suing the police, was sadistically gunned down on the Angels Flight tram just as he was beginning a case that would have struck the core of the department; not surprisingly, L.A.'s men and women in blue become the center of the investigation. Haunted by the ghost of the L.A. riots, plagued by incessant media attention, and facing turmoil at home, Bosch suddenly finds himself questioning friends and associates while working side by side with some longtime enemies. <p> <I>Angels Flight</I> is a detective's nightmare scenario and is disturbingly relevant to the racially tense last decade of the 20th century. Amidst the twists and turns of his complex narrative, Connelly affirms his rightful place among the masters of contemporary mystery fiction. <I> Patrick O'Kelley</I>
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