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Nine Dragons (A Harry Bosch Novel, 14)

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After what seems like a routine murder investigation, LAPD Detective Harry Bosch finds himself in Hong Kong facing the highest-stakes case of his life: bringing his kidnapped daughter home.

Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer.

The world Bosch steps into next is unknown territory. He brings in a detective from the Asian Gang Unit for help with translation -- not just of languages but also of the cultural norms and expectations that guided Li's life. He uncovers a link to a Hong Kong triad, a lethal and far-reaching crime ring that follows many immigrants to their new lives in the U.S.

And instantly his world explodes. The one good thing in Bosch's life, the person he holds most dear, is taken from him and Bosch travels to Hong Kong in an all-or-nothing bid to regain what he's lost. In a place known as Nine Dragons, as the city's Hungry Ghosts festival burns around him, Bosch puts aside everything he knows and risks everything he has in a desperate bid to outmatch the triad's ferocity.

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Little, Brown and Company
Publication date

October 13, 2009
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6.3 x 1.3 x 9.54 inches
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0316166316
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978-0316166317

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Amazon.com Review

Amazon Best of the Month, October 2009: An investigation into a cold-blooded murder introduces Detective Harry Bosch to a Chinese underworld lurking in the dark recesses of the City of Angels. Its tentacles are far reaching, yet it remains shrouded in secrecy due to time-honored cultural traditions that keep the exploited from speaking out. To the victim's family, Bosch promises revenge, but when his own daughter suddenly becomes a target, he promises blood. However, working a case with leads on both sides of the Pacific provides little room (or time) for error. 9 Dragons is a gritty, coffee-and-cigarettes crime thriller full of smart twists and generous helpings of suspense. Fans of Michael Connelly can expect another exceptional thrill ride, while newcomers will be immediately engaged by the tortured and unrelenting Bosch. "He knew one day it would come to this, that the darkness would find [his daughter] and that she would be used to get him," writes Connelly. "That day was now." --Dave Callanan

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By the time their series reach a 15th installment, authors tend to fall back on the status quo, putting familiar characters in recognizable situations. Not so with Connelly, who continues to explore the darkest reaches of Harry Bosch's psyche in ways that will surprise even Connelly's die-hard fans. In fact, it is the author's deft combination of police procedural and taut psychological suspense that separates Bosch from other fictional crime detectives. A few critics thought that the condensed time frame led to some unbelievable scenes, but the majority hailed Nine Dragons as one of Connelly's best. Introducing plotlines that will influence Bosch well into the future (his career in books has so far covered nearly two decades, starting with the 1990 Edgar-winning Black Echo), Nine Dragons once again illustrates Connelly's magic touch.

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Nine Dragons ignites Bosch's personal and professional lives, bringing them together in an explosive manner....Harry's feverish race against the clock and the international dateline...plunges the reader into a firestorm of danger and tragedy....To say that Nine Dragons is coiled tight with suspense understates Connelly's accomplishment in portraying Bosch at the cusp of a new world."―Paula L. Woods, Los Angeles Times

"A Michael Connelly novel is a thing of cool beauty, meticulously plotted, rigorously controlled....In Nine Dragons, Bosch's crisp, cold-eyed rationality is blown to smithereens. Stoicism goes right out the window. And the vivid drama of this contrast gives the novel its ferocious energy. Once under way, you can't stop reading Nine Dragons, and not just because you want to know whodunit. You want to know how Bosch is going to operate in a whole new kind of darkness."―Julia Keller, Chicago Tribune

"May be the most wrenching Bosch novel yet....The jagged intersection between a cop's personal and professional lives is a recurring theme in many crime novels, but never has it been portrayed with the razor-edge sharpness and psychological acuity that Connelly brings to the subjects. And that's layered underneath the nonstop action of the novel's last half-the kind of full-throttle, blood-spattered narrative road race one associates with Lee Child or Stephen Hunter."―Bill Ott, Booklist

"Engrossing...one of the best in this series. Nine Dragons works as a gripping police procedural, an intense character study and an international thriller....Connelly is one of the best living crime writers and the consistency of his work continues through Nine Dragons."―Oline H. Cogdill, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

"Bosch is back...this latest appearance is a complex and meticulously crafted tale...packed with jump and juice....This is Bosch at his sharpest and Connelly at his most engaging. High-voltage stuff."―Katherine Dunn, Oregonian

"Bestseller Connelly nimbly balances Harry Bosch's personal and professional lives....Tenacious as ever, Bosch is even more formidable in his role as a protective father."―Publishers Weekly

"Connelly unveils his most personal Bosch story yet with this fish-out-of-water story. The pages fly...another Connelly masterpiece."―Jeff Ayers, Library Journal

"Remarkably fine....With Nine Dragons, Connelly has taken a chance by transforming a character millions have come to know well. In doing so, he has made Harry Bosch more human and interesting than ever."―Bruce DeSilva, Associated Press

"Connelly is in top form with the Bosch tale, his 15th: the story unfolds with exquisite procedural details; unexpected violence; and increased insight into the stoic, jazz-loving, relentless, flawed detective who bears the burden of every case."―Nancy Gilson, Columbus Dispatch

About the Author

Michael Connelly is the author of forty-three novels, among them New York Times bestsellers Ironwood, The Proving Ground, and The Waiting. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, the Renée Ballard series, and the Catalina novels, have sold more than ninety-two million copies worldwide. A former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels, Connelly is the executive producer of four television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy,The Lincoln Lawyer, and Ballard. He spends his time in California and Florida.

From The Washington Post

From The Washington Post's Book World/washingtonpost.com Reviewed by by Donna Rifkind Michael Connelly's crime novels are so infused with Los Angeles atmosphere that some readers might have trouble imagining his key protagonist, Detective Harry Bosch, surviving for long in any other environment. In more than a dozen previous novels, Bosch has occasionally followed a case beyond L.A. -- to Mexico, say, or Las Vegas. But the City of Angels is where he begins and ends his work, searching every overlook and underpass in his single-minded mission to bring murderers to justice. Bosch is feeling his age after more than 30 years spent working homicide, mostly for the LAPD, and now relies mostly on momentum. "I just want to keep moving," he insists throughout his latest case, which takes him from Los Angeles all the way to Hong Kong. By sending the cop so far from his beat, is Connelly trying to shore up an aging series, to reinvigorate a worn-out hero? No and no. There's still plenty of juice in the older but fiercer Bosch. As the new novel begins, he's eagerly awaiting a new assignment at Homicide Special while losing patience with his young partner, Detective Ignacio Ferras, whose dedication to police work seems to be waning. Faithful readers know that Hong Kong isn't a far-fetched destination for Bosch. In "Lost Light" (2003), he discovered he had a daughter named Madeline, who's now 13 and living in Hong Kong with her mother, an ex-FBI agent. Harry visits Maddie regularly and keeps in close touch via texting, video and e-mail on matching late-model cellphones that they bought together. (This capitulation to digital tech is a sure sign of paternal devotion: In the last Bosch novel, "The Overlook," famously old-fashioned Harry was dependent on his partner, Ignacio, to help him work a BlackBerry.) Bosch's latest case begins close to home, in a familiar South L.A. neighborhood. In fact, the victim is someone he knew. John Li was the 70-ish owner of Fortune Liquors, located just a few blocks from the epicenter of the 1992 riots. Bosch had been involved in a case on this gang-infested street 12 years ago and remembers the store and its proprietor well. Now Li, a Chinese immigrant who stubbornly refused to relocate despite a slew of dangerous robberies and the urgings of his wife and grown children, has been shot dead behind the store's counter. "Three in the chest was not personal. It was business," Bosch notes of this particular murder. But he doubts that his first suspect, a teenage shoplifter, was the shooter: "That would be too easy and there were things about the case that defied easy." Instead, with the help of a young detective from the Asian Gang Unit, he gathers clues suggesting that Li owed protection money to a Hong Kong triad, a criminal organization with origins in 17th-century China. When Bosch gets a menacing call on his office phone warning him to back off the case, he's not especially fazed. But everything changes after he receives a cellphone video containing evidence that Maddie has been kidnapped in Hong Kong. Was there a leak within the various police departments involved in the investigation? And how can Bosch begin to penetrate the shadowy triad, whose lethal influence on both sides of the Pacific is now threatening his own daughter? With no time to brood, Harry jumps on a plane and counts on pure momentum to propel him through a frantic 39-hour "day" in which he races through Hong Kong and its environs to try to rescue Maddie. But that momentum, while crucial, comes with a price: In his adrenaline-charged pursuit, Bosch puts lives in jeopardy and leaves a trail of blood behind him when he returns to Los Angeles. Connelly has taken his hero into unfamiliar territory in more ways than one. Bosch's dash through an intensely atmospheric foreign city -- teeming, incomprehensibly chaotic, dense with smoke from the rites of an ancient festival -- is, for the first time, the duty of a terrified parent as well as a professional detective. Forced to give up any pretense of bulletproof independence, from now on the lone-wolf cop "would be forever connected to the world in the way only a father knew." It's tempting to look at Connelly's large oeuvre -- which includes novels starring two other engaging protagonists, lawyer Mickey Haller and journalist Jack McEvoy -- as one huge, Trollopean vision of the way we live now, offering a swift, up-to-the-minute mosaic of contemporary urban life by exploring every corner of the criminal justice system, from ganglands to gated communities, from office cubicles to forensic labs, from boom times to recessions. "Nine Dragons" continues to broaden that vision through Bosch's eyes with an installment that's at once more global and more intimate than anything Connelly has published since his first novel, "The Black Echo" (1992). bookworld@washpost.com
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 13, 2009
Edition ‏ : ‎ First Edition
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 384 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316166316
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316166317
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.35 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.3 x 1.3 x 9.54 inches
Book 14 of 21 ‏ : ‎ Harry Bosch
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MICHAEL CONNELLY is the author of forty-three novels, including the New York Times bestsellers Ironwood, The Proving Ground, Nightshade, The Waiting, Resurrection Walk, Desert Star, The Dark Hours, and The Law Of Innocence. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, the Renée Ballard series, the Jack McEvoy series, and the Catalina series, have sold more than ninety-two million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of the tv series Bosch and Bosch: Legacy and Ballard on Prime Video, and The Lincoln Lawyer series on Netflix, and the documentary films Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story, and Tales of the American, and Power Trip. He is the creator and host of the podcasts Killer In The Code, Murder Book, and The Wonderland Murders & The Secret History Of Hollywood, and the audio drama The Safe Man on Audible. He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Customers praise the book's complex plot with unexpected twists and turns, keeping them engaged from beginning to end. They appreciate the character development, with Harry Bosch being a great character who grows with life situations, and find the research thorough and surprising. The pacing receives mixed reviews - while some find it fast-moving, others say it drags along at times.

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260 customers mention story, 208 positive, 52 negative

Customers enjoy the gripping tale with its tightly woven plot and unexpected twists, with one customer noting how it sucks readers right into the narrative.

Was a great story with lots of action as always. But, on the last two pages, is a stupid and ridiculous ending, a real disappointment....Read more

Generally a good story with lots of excitement and suspense. A typical Harry story....Read more

Another great story, amongst many, from the master Michael Connelly. Always a great and entertaining read....Read more

...Still a good yarn but the plot is a bit unbelievable. Flashing cash in bad neighbourhood is a bit dumbRead more

234 customers mention engaging, 226 positive, 8 negative

Customers find the book engaging, describing it as a whirlwind of excitement that holds their interest from beginning to end.

...All of his books are great. Nine Dragons is suspenseful and surprising. My favorite books are when one main character appears ... like this one....Read more

Michael Connelly continues to consistently write exciting, new Harry Bosch stories without losing the central theme and steady presence of his...Read more

As always Michael Connelly delivers a very entertaining and believable story line. This time accompanied by beautiful photos by Steven Vascik....Read more

Quick read, kept me engaged. I wanted a book that was entertaining and this book is it....Read more

141 customers mention readability, 119 positive, 22 negative

Customers find the book highly readable, with several mentioning they finished it in one sitting and plan to read it again.

A good read just like the other Bosch novels. There was an interesting plot with action galore. I've been a fan of this series for a long time.Read more

A great read. The plot move through twists and turns that keep the readers eyes riveted to the pages. Harry Bosch rules.Read more

Excellent read, thoroughly enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone. Liked the twist at the end with the daughter revealing she was behind it all.Read more

Another good read! Didn't love all of the story, but it can't always be the way you think it should!Read more

102 customers mention plot, 91 positive, 11 negative

Customers enjoy the plot of the book, describing it as a powerful mystery with interesting twists and turns and surprises at the end, making it more like a thriller than just a mystery.

...Great story with lots of twists and turns. Bizarre climax. Delightful read.Read more

Tightly woven plot with many twists and turns. Interesting and engaging characters. Unexpected and shocking plot twist at the end.Read more

Great writing, great mystery, great continued character development. Just another Harry Bosch (or any OTHER character by the way) by Michael...Read more

I loved the twists and turns and most I never saw coming. I think it’s the best book in the series so far.Read more

98 customers mention content, 79 positive, 19 negative

Customers praise the book's content, highlighting its great detective work and full of surprises, with one customer noting the depth of research and another appreciating Harry Bosch's common sense approach to investigations.

Nine Dragons = Five StarsRead more

...This book has everything. Great detective work, plenty of action, and a tearful ending....Read more

As always, this one was well researched and I felt like I was "in the moment" in Hong Kong....Read more

...Great action,intense suspense and compassion. Connelly has done it again!Read more

87 customers mention character development, 72 positive, 15 negative

Customers love Harry Bosch as a character, appreciating how Connelly develops him through life situations, with one customer noting Haller's no-nonsense personality throughout the story.

Harry Bosch is a great character and I am so glad that Mr. Connelly has continued this series--I would recommend this book to anyone who enjoys a...Read more

I am a big fan of the Bosch series. Great read. Believable characters, good plot. All things a good mystery should have.Read more

...Kudos to this author for real characters and believable stories. I am reading the Bosch/Haller books out of order which is ok.Read more

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67 customers mention engrossing, 63 positive, 4 negative

Customers find the book engrossing, describing it as one they couldn't put down.

Expertly written and full of surprises and suspenders.Very hard to put down.Enjoyed every minute.cant wait to start the next book in the series.Read more

Could not put it down. Nicely paced story line that does not disappoint. Got to love a character who is smart although illustrates many human flaws.Read more

Keeps you reading from begining to the end. I couldn't put it down.Read more

Really well written. A page turner. Read this book in two days. Couldn't put it down....Read more

122 customers mention pacing, 84 positive, 38 negative

Customers have mixed opinions about the pacing of the book, with some finding it fast-moving and non-stop, while others note that it starts out slow and drags along at times.

This fast paced, exciting detective novel involves Chinese Triad culture, and an estranged family with a twisted surprise ending....Read more

...This one is fast moving and keeps the reader engrossed. I definitely recommend reading Michael Connelly’s 9 DragonsRead more

This was more fast paced than his other novels....Read more

Gripping tale, suspenseful and fast. Harry Bosch is bent on getting his daughter back, and rips apart Hong Kong to find her.Read more

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