9 Dragons. This book has to be one of Michael Connelly’s worse. LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is assigned a murder case in which someone shot a Chinese store owner. It is determined that the Hong Kong triad is involved. Within hours of starting his investigation, he finds out that his daughter (living in Hong Kong) has been kidnapped. Off to Hong Kong he goes to find his daughter.
This book is a re-write of the movie Taken.
I enjoyed the book up to the point where Harry Bosch heads to Hong Kong. In Hong Kong, he meets up with his ex-wife. His ex-wife is emotionally shattered by these events and is a serious drag on Bosch’s attempt to find the individuals who kidnapped his daughter.
Okay, here’s the major problem with this description of the wife: his wife is a former-FBI agent. Is our FBI filled with people who are unable to help in a kidnapping investigation? This has to be seen as a sexist portrayal of this character.
Also, the ending can be seen from a mile away. Now I’ve read plenty of Connelly’s books so perhaps I’m getting too familiar with his twists and turns. It is possible that I just shouldn’t read another Connelly book for a couple years. On the other hand, I just felt that certain characters and events were written in a way that you just could smell out the fact that something wasn’t right. Maybe Connelly meant to write it this way, but if so he was way too obvious.
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