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Angels Flight (Harry Bosch) | 
| Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Pages: 480
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Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.2
ISBN: 0446607274
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780446607278
ASIN: 0446607274
Publication Date: January 1, 2000
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Michael Connelly, whose novel The Poet 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, Angels Flight, 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. Angels Flight 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. --Patrick O'Kelley
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Michael Connelly, whose novel The Poet 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, Angels Flight, 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. Angels Flight 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. --Patrick O'Kelley
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 Strong novel with a weak ending September 30, 2008
Wonderfully complex yet logical plot leads from one red herring to another without stop.
Harry stands like a stone wall, unperturbed by the chaos and killings and police intrigue flowing around him.
However, I must warn the reader that the ending does not make for a satisfying conclusion to the novel.
 Another deep notch in Connelly's belt! September 15, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
Howard Elias is part of the Los Angeles upper crust. As a very high profile African-American attorney and racial activist, his lucrative practice consists in large part of suing the LAPD for real, perceived or imagined civil rights infractions against the black community in LA. When he is murdered in a particularly vindictive fashion on the very eve of an important trial against four white officers, the administration of the LAPD recognizes that it has no choice but to investigate its own members and let the chips fall where they may. The case is assigned to Harry Bosch and his Hollywood homicide squad, rookie black female officer, Kiz Rider and a senior detective, Jerry Edgar, also a black officer in good standing. The political considerations behind the choice of this team to investigate the case are obvious. Bosch, Rider and Edgar, probably more through good luck than good management, have never been sued by Elias. That the squad has two black members obviously makes the choice even more politically palatable.
Michael Connelly has stepped up to the plate once again and treated us to an exciting police procedural that will thrill Harry Bosch fans to their very toes. Los Angeles is graphically portrayed as a tinder box ready to explode into a reprise of the Watts riots that took place in the aftermath of the Rodney King trial. As we've come to expect, Bosch continues to be a come-what-may investigator whose only pursuit is the truth. As Bosch's former partner, Frank Sheehan, comes under suspicion for the murder, Bosch's friendship, his loyalty and the steadfastness of his principles are tested to their limits.
This might not be the best novel that Connelly ever wrote. But I still haven't encountered the entry in the growing Harry Bosch canon that doesn't keep me flipping pages at a torrid pace. Internal departmental politics and race take centre stage in "Angel's Flight" as Bosch butts heads with the senior levels of the department, the FBI, Internal Affairs and even his own partners. Readers who have followed Bosch from the very start will also be interested in the side plot about his new wife, former FBI agent, Eleanor Wish.
Highly recommended.
Paul Weiss
An epic police thriller full of racial tensions from Connelly September 8, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Angels Flight by Michael Connelly opens with Harry Bosch worrying about the direction his marriage with Eleanor Wish has taken. It is two in the morning and he and his team get a call to Angels Flight, a train that takes people to the top of a hill in downtown LA. Two dead bodies have been found, and one of them is Howard Elias. Elias is a famous black civil rights attorney that has made a fortune and a reputation on suing the LAPD. This is a very sensitive case since many cops would be suspects. Elias was about to go to court the next Monday in a case accusing the LAPD of brutalizing Michael Harris while he was interrogated. Harris was tried and aquitted in the murder and torture of a young white girl named Stacy Kinkaid.
In Angels Flight, Connelly is obviously choosing to tackle the racial tensions that were so prevalent in LA during the Rodney King and OJ trials. While Bosch and partners Jerry Edgar and Kiz Rider try to solve Elias's murder, they stumble onto another shocking case regarding Michael Harris. Connelly's shift of the case over half way through the novel was somewhat unexpected yet very compelling. The first half of the novel is about Elias and the racial tensions brewing in LA, and the second half shifts to a different case about Michael Harris and the death of Stacy Kinkaid. Many authors couldn't pull this shift off, but Connelly does it superbly. In the end, the cases come together in the gritty and somewhat shocking traditional Connelly fashion.
This is a good novel, almost epic in its scope of a case spanning only three or four days yet going in so many different directions. Bosch's personal life takes a sharp turn in this novel, yet never gets in the way of the raw police details that fans love. Connelly once again proves he is one of the best.
 Harry, we have to stop meeting like this ! August 2, 2008
Another night spent with Harry into the wee hours. The author just keeps the suspense growing and twists twistier. I wasn't prepared to like this novel as much as the others. An attorney who lives to sue the LAPD -- and picks the race card out of every deck he's dealt -- and all the politicos covering their collective butts -- no thanks. But this was REALLY a good read. Of course, as usual, the FBI and IAD hassle Harry at every turn and he always has somebody trying to bring him down. That part gets older with each new book. But you gotta love Harry -- he just keeps fighting. Does it bother anyone else that Harry carries a briefcase? It just doesn't ring true to his character. I'm seeing Dirty Harry one minute and then Poindexter the Geek the next. Do homicide dectectives carry briefcases? All the more reason Harry would not.
Harry Boils Over After a Long Spell in the Pressure Cooker July 23, 2008
Angels Flight was written near the ebb of LAPD's reputation: OJ Simpson had skated after the police investigation proved to be corrupt in most peoples' minds and Rodney King had been beaten, enraging those who feared and despised LAPD. Angels Flight is an attempt to re-create that era and give a sense of the pressures on those who were trying to do their duty while public relations and political concerns ran amok. The cross-currents of those disparate interests suck Harry Bosch into a cesspool of duplicity from which he'll be likely to escape.
In Trunk Music, Harry had married . . . perhaps not wisely. As Angels Flight opens, she's gone . . . and Harry can't seem to get her back: The lure of the casinos is calling its siren sound.
Harry has the weekend off: His team in Hollywood isn't on call. He's surprised when the top brass call him out in the middle of the night on a murder that occurs on the incline railway in downtown LA: That's Robbery Homicide territory. He's even more surprised when the murder scene has already been combed over and Internal Affairs desk types are everywhere. There are two deceased: One is a civil rights lawyer who makes his living suing cops . . . and who is about to lower the boom on the Robbery Homicide crew. Harry quickly appreciates that having two partners who are African Americans is part of why he's "leading" the case.
Despite lots of pressure to pin the case on someone, anyone, Harry continues to investigate. What he learns suggests even darker secrets than appeared on the surface.
Will he be able to outfox those who want a sacrificial lamb? How will his marriage take the strain? Can he keep his job? Will the city sleep quietly?
The plot is a demanding one that helps reveal a lot about the police and Harry's perspective: Michael Connelly paints a broad landscape of human depravity that will stay with you. You'll probably become well engaged in the story, even if the situation seems forced to you in the beginning.
I think you will enjoy this book a lot more if you have already read the prior books in the Harry Bosch series. Give yourself a treat and go back if you haven't read them already.
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