In a message dated 3/25/08 4:45:53 PM,
michaelconnelly187@yahoo.com writes:
> I agree with you and that is certainly an option I
have with Harry Bosch. I
> have planted
> many seeds about Harry in Vietnam, about Harry as a
street cop during the
> Patty Hearst
> and SLA period, etc. I have gathered string on these
times and events. I've
> done the
> research so that I could write the book. Its just a
matter of getting to
> them. But having said
> all of that, I think the idea of writing in read
time is such a gift. It
> gives me the power to
> reflect on what is happening in Los Angeles or our
society at large almost
> as it is
> happening. I remember that my book City of Bones was
published 7 months
> after 9/11
> and it had many references to it and its impact on
the other side of the
> country and on the
> country as a whole. To me it made the book more than
a mystery and an
> entertainment. It
> made it a little tiny mirror reflecting a little bit
about what was going on
> in the world. And
> that is one of the reasons I have never stopped the
forward progression of
> the series to go
> back in time. As I said in one of the other answers,
the forward progression
> will hit its
> limits shortly and then there will be time to go
back.
>
it occurs to me that you've laid groundwork to go back even
further if you wish, with at least a stand alone featuring J,
Michael Haller, celebrity attorney. that's not without
precedent. Steven Hunter for one, created a separate series
featuring Arkansas Dept. Earl Swagger, father of his sniper
character Bob Lee Swagger
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