The Black Ice (Harry Bosch) [マスマーケット]

Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is reminded of the primal police rule he learned long ago: Don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Soon Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with a dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that wind from Hollywood Boulevard to the back alleys south of the border. Now this battle-scarred veteran will find himself in the center of a complex and deadly game-one in which he may be the next and likeliest victim.

モーテルで発見された麻薬課刑事ムーアの死体。殺人課のボッシュはなぜか捜査から外され、内務監査課が出動した。状況は汚職警官の自殺。しかし検屍の結果、自殺は偽装であることが判明。興味を持ったボッシュは密かに事件の裏を探る。新しい麻薬ブラック・アイスをめぐる麻薬組織の対立の構図を知ったボッシュは、鍵を握る麻薬王ソリージョと対決すべくメキシコへ…ハリウッド署のはぐれ刑事ボッシュの執念の捜査があばく事件の意外な真相。『ナイトホークス』に続く傑作ハードボイルド第2弾。 --このテキストは、 文庫 版に関連付けられています。

LAPD detective Hieronymous "Harry" Bosch, protagonist of the highly praised mystery The Black Echo , returns in a procedural thriller set in and around the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When Bosch arrives at a sleazy hotel room where a fellow officer has committed suicide, he senses that something is awry. Noncommittal superior officers, a diffident widow and tales linking the dead man to a newly created street drug called "black ice" (heroin, crack and PCP rolled into one) send Bosch down a winding trail of forensic impossibilities, brutally violent drug traffickers and an ultimately shocking case of mistaken identity. Award-winning Connelly's second fictional effort is strong and sure. His pacing could be better--too often he conveys the same information twice--but his plot and characters more than make up for a slow start. This novel establishes him as a writer with a superior talent for storytelling.
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Michael Connelly is a former journalist and has won every major prize for crime fiction. He lives in Florida.