He doesn’t want them to just be written off or discarded. He legitimately wants justice (there we go!) for each victim. He legitimately cares (maybe cares isn’t the right word). He’s not one of those “it’s just a junkie”, or “they did the city a service” cops. This is an endearing character trait that repeats through the Harry Bosch stories. Everyone also thinks it’s just an overdose, but Harry wants them to look into it further. Harry recognizes him eventually as someone he served in Vietnam with. At first everyone just thinks it’s a “hype”, which is I guess cop speak / derogatory term for a needle drug addict. I hope that story comes up one of these days, because it sounds very interesting.Īnyway, he’s called to a murder where a body was left in a drainpipe at a dam. Harry was knocked down a few pegs after shooting a serial killer who was reaching for a toupee (not a gun). It sounds ritzy, but apparently that department is the bottom of the barrel. He starts out this story in the Hollywood Division of the LAPD. I think he’s in his 30’s / 40’s, which I consider young (see year of birth above). Harry Bosch is a fairly young man in this his first story. He was actually in another book I read by Michael Connelly a few years ago, as there’s apparently a Harry Bosch Universe! He was an old man in that book though. I mean I was born in 1981, so it’s basically the same thing! Anyway, I didn’t know about him for a while. So apparently the fictional detective Harry Bosch has been around almost as long as I have.
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