Although my reading of Connelly's works has been limited, my
understanding of and connection with Hieronymus Bosch bears
out the author's credence. Harry and I both started out
similar carreers in 1972, walked away from the job several
times, and preferred difficult cases.
Connelly likely has that overview of the era from examining
cases during his crime journalist days, when modern criminal
techniques and terminology were just beginning to form. Those
were times between pounding the streets for leads then, and
pounding a keyboard for similar results, now.
Harry is a character that knows how his job was done
previuosly, with Quip machines and without DNA. Real knowhow.
For his character to evolve into the 21st Century shows Harry
has only one thing in mind, to solve his cases. Even if it
means revisiting the old with the new, even his own old
cases.
I enjoy the character.
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, BaxDeal@... wrote:
>
> born in 1956 and educated at the University of
Florida, Michael
Connelly is a
> true rare bird: a best selling author who can
actually write, his
latter
> skillset honed as a crime journalist during the
cocaine wars in
South Florida,
> where he along with 2 other reporters were nominated
for a Pulitzer
for a piece
> they did on the survivors of a major plane crash.
moving to the
crime desk at
> the Los Angeles Times, Connelly always knew he
wanted to be a
mystery
> novelist
<snip>
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