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The Narrows Hardcover – Large Print, May 3, 2004

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In the depths of the Nevada desert, FBI agent Rachel Walling and former LAPD Detective Harry Bosch must confront The Poet, a terrifying serial killer who leads them down a dark and twisted path.




FBI agent Rachel Walling finally gets the call she's dreaded for years, the one that tells her the Poet has surfaced. She has never forgotten the serial killer who wove lines of poetry in his hideous crimes -- and apparently he has not forgotten her.

Former LAPD detective Harry Bosch gets a call, too -- from the widow of an old friend. Her husband's death seems natural, but his ties to the hunt for the Poet make Bosch dig deep. Arriving at a derelict spot in the California desert where the feds are unearthing bodies, Bosch joins forces with Rachel. Now the two are at odds with the FBI . . . and squarely in the path of the Poet, who will lead them on a wicked ride out of the heat, through the narrows of evil, and into a darkness all his own . . .
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  1. Book 10 of 20
    A Harry Bosch Novel
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Michael Connelly is the author of thirty-eight previous novels, including #1 New York Times bestsellers Desert Star, The Dark Hours, and The Law of Innocence. His books, which include the Harry Bosch series, the Lincoln Lawyer series, and the Renée Ballard series, have sold more than eighty-five million copies worldwide. Connelly is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He is the executive producer of three television series: Bosch, Bosch: Legacy, and The Lincoln Lawyer. He spends his time in California and Florida.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Little, Brown and Company; Large type / Large print edition (May 3, 2004)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 352 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0316000736
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0316000734
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.24 x 1.55 x 9.38 inches
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Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of more than thirty novels and one work of nonfiction. With over eighty-five million copies of his books sold worldwide and translated into forty-five foreign languages, he is one of the most successful writers working today. A former newspaper reporter who worked the crime beat at the Los Angeles Times and the Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel, Connelly has won numerous awards for his journalism and his fiction. His very first novel, The Black Echo, won the prestigious Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award for Best First Novel in 1992. In 2002, Clint Eastwood directed and starred in the movie adaptation of Connelly's 1998 novel, Blood Work. In March 2011, the movie adaptation of his #1 bestselling novel, The Lincoln Lawyer, hit theaters worldwide starring Matthew McConaughey as Mickey Haller. His most recent New York Times bestsellers include Desert Star (2022), The Dark Hours (2021), The Law Of Innocence (2020), Fair Warning (2020), and The Night Fire (2019). Michael is the executive producer of Bosch and Bosch: Legacy, Amazon Studios original drama series based on his bestselling character Harry Bosch, starring Titus Welliver and streaming on Amazon Prime/Amazon Freevee. He is the executive producer of The Lincoln Lawyer, streaming on Netflix, starring Manuel Garcia-Rulfo. He is also the executive producer of the documentary films, "Sound Of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story' and 'Tales Of the American.' He spends his time in California and Florida.

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Robert W
5.0 out of 5 stars Great read
Reviewed in the United States on May 6, 2024
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It has it all. Fast moving, cerebral, down to earth and informative with bits of real history and geography to keep you in the story.
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Connie Shaffer
4.0 out of 5 stars Bosch wins again
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A slower start, but after Bosch & Rachel team up, the story kicks! More to cone from the duo in the future.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The Narrows by Michael Connelly: A review
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When it comes to reading series, I admit I am obsessive/compulsive. I read the books in the order of their publication and, if I find that I have accidentally read one out of order, I circle back and read the overlooked book(s) as soon as possible.

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch series is one of my favorites, but I hate it when he combines Harry with one of his other primary characters in books. I don't really mind Mickey, the Lincoln Lawyer, but I never liked Terry McCaleb. So, when it came time for me to read #10 in the Bosch series and I downloaded it to my Kindle and noticed the description of it as "Terry McCaleb #3" I groaned aloud and considered skipping it.

Then my OCD kicked in and I started to read. It didn't take long for my groan to become a chuckle. In the first few pages of the book, we find that Connelly has killed off Terry McCaleb. Nice move, Michael!

Terry had had a heart transplant and had to take medications to keep his body from rejecting the organ. He took the meds faithfully and should have been okay, but something went wrong and he suffered heart failure while out on his fishing boat with his partner and a paying customer, and he died before medical help could reach him.

The autopsy confirms heart failure as the cause, but his widow is not satisfied and has his meds tested by a lab. She learns that his capsules had been tampered with and believes her husband was deliberately murdered. She contacts Bosch, who is now a private detective after having retired from the LAPD, and asks him to investigate.

As Harry digs into the case, he discovers some troubling links to an old case involving a serial killer. Following the clues takes him to a desert site in Nevada where he finds the FBI in the process of digging up bodies - eight so far - from a burial site. He stumbles into the middle of their investigation, eventually hooking up with Agent Rachel Walling.

Walling was the agent who had tracked and shot the serial killer known as "The Poet" in the standalone novel by that name that Connelly wrote some years back. Though he was wounded, "The Poet" survived and escaped capture and went on to kill again. Now, it seems evident that the Nevada site is the work of that killer and the old team that tracked him is gathering to try to put an end to him.

The Narrows continues the saga of "The Poet" and the hunt for him. Many of the characters from the earlier book appear here. But now they've also got Harry Bosch on their team. Can there be any doubt of the outcome?

Meanwhile, on the personal front, Harry is getting to know the daughter that he just learned about in the last book, Lost Light, and he is still entangled in a tormented relationship with her mother, his ex-wife Eleanor Wish. They can't live together, but it seems there are too many connections - mainly the daughter that they both love - to ever allow them to completely disconnect from each other.

Also, in the middle of his investigation, Harry is contacted by old friends from the LAPD informing him of a new policy implemented by the department that would allow him to rejoin it without having to repeat time at the academy. His old partner, Kiz, wants him back to help work cold cases, the kind that Harry never gives up on. Harry admits that he has missed having the badge and is sorely tempted to return. So, will he or won't he?

Michael Connelly is a very clever writer and he basically had me from the first sentence on this one. He moved the narrative along at such a pace that I really found it hard to put down. Plus, I loved the little shout-outs that he found a way to give to some of his fellow mystery writers like Ian Rankin and Clive Cussler. He also has some references to a movie that was apparently made by Clint Eastwood from one of his novels - although I didn't see it - and it seems that Connelly probably didn't care much for it. Just another juicy little fillip to add to the pleasure of reading this very good book. Reader's OCD sometimes pays off.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Fire and Flood
Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2011
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Bosch, with a PI license after retiring from the LAPD, agrees to look into the death of Terry McCaleb at the request of McCaleb's widow who suspects foul play rather than natural causes. Bosch and McCaleb met in an earlier case and in an earlier book, A Darkness More than Night. Bosch figures out that McCaleb, retired from the FBI at the time of his death, was continuing to investigate unsolved cases, including the case of a serial killer, a rogue FBI agent dubbed "the Poet." In his effort to resolve McCaleb's death, Bosch heads into the Nevada desert where he encounters the FBI and, in typical Bosch fashion, he butts heads with wrong-headed authority.

The plot is complicated, the characters are interesting, events become thrilling and our hero is nearly consumed by fire and flood. This book has all the hall marks of Connolly's stories about Bosch.

I find Bosch an especially appealing character for several reasons. First, he is a man on a mission, a man with a hope that justice can be done and a need to make it happen. "Everybody counts or nobody does," he says. In mulling a return to the LAPD, Bosch makes the point again: "I thought about going back. I thought about seven thousand unanswered voices from the grave. That was more than the number of stars you see when you look up into the sky at night."

I think for those of us who have spent years in corporate America, Bosch is also appealing because he is a rebel against wrong-headed authority. But unlike most of us, Bosch wins his wars against ignorant or self-serving or ill-motivated leadership. In Narrows, it's Bosch who figures out the serial killer and Bosch who finds him, not the arrogant, bullying FBI agents who dare to push Bosch around

I also appreciate the fact that Connelly's Bosch is not a sexual adventurer whose machismo blinds all women he encounters. In this story, Bosch manages to find a lover, agent Rachel Walling, but he is a considerate, even shy lover, who cares about Rachel and sees her as his equal. Connelly has Walling bring up and win a point about women and prostitution that I think has never been made in a story of a tough, loner ex-cop/PI.

Bosch and Walling approach a set of brothels. "'Nice,' Rachel said as we surveyed the scene. `Why are these places always named after women - as if women actually own them?' `You got me. I guess Mister Dave's House of Holies wouldn't go over so well with the guys.' Rachel smiled. `You're right. I guess it's a shrewd move. Name a place of female degradation and slavery after a female and it doesn't sound so bad, does it? It's packaging.'

`Slavery? Last I heard these women were volunteers. Some of them are supposedly housewives who come up from Vegas.' `If you believe that, then you are naïve, Bosch. Just because you can come and go doesn't mean you're not a slave.'"

Conclusions: Read Bosch; he's great; read Narrows; it's great.
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Mary G.
5.0 out of 5 stars A Page-Turner
Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2021
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I read this in one day. I am a Harry Bosch addict & am working my way through all the Bosch novels during my now sequestered life. However, 2 things bother me just a bit.

First, it is difficult to track Harry bio graphically, although I made an effort to read the novels in order. That soon fell through, as I was able to purchase them (some used) at different times. But I WISH they were numbered on the books themselves. One moment he has a daughter living with him; the next, she is nowhere to be seen. A lover is here; then she is gone. His house is red-tagged; then it is completely rebuilt.

I am a Bosch addict. I read this novel in one day.

But I am frustrated in attempts to track what is happening in Harry’s personal life. It would help if the books themselves were numbered. But even then, there are huge gaps. The house is red-tagged. The house is rebuilt. The daughter is there. Then she’s not. A lover is there. Then she disappears to Italy or something.

Secondly, some of these women Harry is so fixated on seem downright hostile to me. The man is an obsessive detective; finding killers will always be the biggest part of his life. Live with it. It’s like being married to a pilot or a doctor or a pro-golfer. You either accept it and love him when he’s there, or find a 9-5 accountant. So I am not in love with the women in Harry’s life and often find them irritating. Finis.
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Bob Fleck
5.0 out of 5 stars Connelly Forever!
Reviewed in Canada on February 13, 2024
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Unless you want to be hooked, don’t read the first page. On the other hand, it is great to be hooked into another Connelly plot and brilliantly crafted set of characters. It happens every time. Love it!
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JamsieG
5.0 out of 5 stars Bosch book
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Raghu Ram Sola
5.0 out of 5 stars The Poet is back
Reviewed in India on August 13, 2023
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Poet is the first book of Michael Connaly that does not feature Bosch. And the book made up for it.

I always thought Jack McCoy would at least have peace of action but Bosch stepped in completely out of Poet's web.

It is very interesting. Though I must admit reading back to back Bosch books is getting repetitive. I am now waiting to add Michael Haller to the equation.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The follow up of that very hideous but good thriller 'The Poet'...
Reviewed in Italy on May 14, 2020
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..... had finally appeared - and it is a masterpiece like the first 'Poet' book.
Patiently awaited for almost 10 years and not only by myself, but by all the true followers of Michael Connelly. Who had seen some of the 'loose ends' in that - otherwise - almost completely resolved thriller. But when there are some loose ends, they may remain lose for a long time. When - and that's no real spoiler - the mode of the crimes lead 'The Poet' - or someone killing in a very similar way - from Europe back to the USA. The FBI needs urgently someone who could have some insight into the way of hunting that new/old (???) Serial Killer. Who may have somehow survived the showdown 10 years earier - that old Nemesis named The Poet for his liking of Edgar Allen Poe's rhymes.
This time Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch - momentary a free-lance PI - snoops up initially very faint tracks that lead to Las Vegas and higher into the mountains into a red-light village. Where the Poet has left even more snd very personal traces for FBI Agent Rachel Walling. Who was lately not too well seen in the higher echelons of The Bureau. But she gets results and the tracks are relatively fresh...
This follow-up of "The Poet" has been written almost 10 years after the POET. And that has a lot of not only technical developments but a lot of news in the way of investigation of a case, too.
And nicely The US title does absolutely not reveal any details of relations to former cases. And that was the intention of Michael Connelly, not to reveal too early that The Poet may be around again. But the hunt is on, was never really finished. And Harry is in his own hunting grounds and may have thus some very important advantages...
Perfectly written thriller- nothing to bloody, but more or less the final moves of a serial killer who clearly is at the end of his road.
Who has read 'The Poet' - those 'Narrows' are a must-read for sure.
I personally can only highly recommend it. It has never getting old ot boring.
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Gary Anderson
5.0 out of 5 stars Viva Hieronymus
Reviewed in Spain on July 28, 2019
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I knew Harry (and Rachel) would get the villian eventually, but that did not distract from the exciting chase. This tale is a delicious blend of past and present.
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