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Michael Connelly always delights
Book Review
By Derryll White
Connelly, Michael (2023). Resurrection Walk
Michael Connelly has a writing technique that never fails him. Whether the main character is Harry Bosch, Mickey Haller or Renée Ballard, he makes them real. This is fiction but Connelly very smoothly slides the reader into real life to age with Harry Bosch or ride in the Lincoln Town Car with Mickey Haller. Connelly puts the reader right there.
The author brings in some new concepts here, such as geofencing, thereby reflecting the increasing complexity of life in the 21st Century. Mickey Haller, lawyer for the petitioner, has his investigator Harry Bosch sift through 2,000 pages of AT&T printouts to map the movement, cell tower by cell tower, of the main suspect. This is a clarion call of how much AI will change our world. It is also a little shadow world of what we all face right now with thousands of inquirers sifting through the maze of the latest Epstein dump. At least for Harry truth does finally pop out.
The courtroom scenes in Resurrection Walks places the reader centrally in the drama. If one has ever been part of court proceedings Connelly brings it all back. Defense and prosecution lawyers get very personal, pulling out the story while all the onlookers feel the rising tension. It is page-turning reading as the Lincoln Lawyer walks the tightrope of truth.
Michael Connelly always delights!
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Excerpts from the novel:
LEGAL RARITY – Going to the prison had been the right call. Seeing her in person, hearing her voice and watching her eyes, made all the difference. She became more than a person at the center of a legal case to me. She became real, and in the sincerity of her words I sensed the truth. I sensed that she might be that rarest of all creatures: an innocent client.
FAMILY – As he unlocked the side door to the kitchen, he thought about how empty his life would feel without the connection to his daughter. It was more than the shared experience of police work. It was sacred. She was his legacy. He knew that she was what made everything he did seem worth it.
PERSPECTIVE – “Not many places are names after bad guys,” she said.
“How about Trump Tower?” Bosch responded.
“Self-named. And I guess it depends on who you talk to about that.”
“I guess so.”
– Derryll White once wrote books but now chooses to read and write about them. When not reading he writes history for the web at www.basininstitute.org.
