Has Bosch gone bad??? (A Darkness More Than Night - Michael Connelly)

Member Name: maggs1939

Product:	A Darkness More Than Night - Michael Connelly
Date:	30/05/01 (42 review reads)
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Advantages: Two great characters for the price of one - Harry Bosch and Terry McCaleb

Disadvantages: Would McCaleb be up to all the physical stuff after his heart transplant??

Michael Connolly is one of my favourite authors. I bought A Darkness More Than Night because the preface mentioned Harry Bosch, my favourite Connelly character.

I wasn’t disappointed. This novel reintroduces another Connelly character, Terry McCaleb an ex FBI agent who was teamed with Bosch in a previous investigation. I think I would have enjoyed the story even more if I had read the previous Bosch/McCaleb novel.

McCaleb is called in to help investigate a strange killing, the circumstances of which are similar to a case he had once profiled for the FBI What makes the case even more bizarre is the fact that Harry Bosch appears to fit the killers profile exactly. Is this a case of good cop turned bad?. Those of us familiar with Bosch don’t believe that for a minute. He couldn’t possibly be the bad guy – or could he?

The plot has the usual exciting twists and turns we have come to expect from Michael Connelly and the reader is kept enthralled until the end.

The only aspect of the book which I found a little hard to accept is the fact that McCaleb retired from the FBI because of heart problems – in fact he has actually had a heart transplant!

It is stretching the imagination to it’s limits to ask the reader to believe that McCaleb could cope with the physical demands he experiences during this investigation. But then, heroes of thrillers are supposed to be superhuman – aren’t they?

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