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The Overlook | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Connelly
Publisher: Orion
Category: Book
List Price: £9.99
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Rating:  10 reviews
Sales Rank: 8348
Media: Paperback
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0752883003
EAN: 9780752883007
ASIN: 0752883003
Publication Date: November 15, 2007
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
Condition: Bought as a present had read it in hardback this copy unopened
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Short and easy to read.... September 4, 2008
johnverp (Budapest)
Policeman Harry Bosch meets up again with FBI agent Rachel Walling, of "Echo Park" fame. Some radioactive material is stolen and a major terrorist threat is assumed. Bosch plays rebel again partly because he is being excluded from elements of the investigation and partly because he doesn't quite believe the scenarios being considered by others.
This is a very short novel of under 300 pages which was very easy to read. The plot is not complicated but it is rich because of its surprises. The writing is good without being inspiring.
Perhaps not one of Connelly's best books, but engaging nonetheless, largely because the story doesn't play out to expectations. 7/10
Oh Hum August 8, 2008
P. Gill (Pontyclun, South Wales)
As an avid Connelly reader I found this book to be disappointing and perhaps the worst Harry Bosch novel yet. This was apparently a serialisation novel that was published in a paper first and it reads that way.
The plot centres around a murder combined with the theft of some radioactive material. The downfall however is in how the book ends - its not only a disappointment, its also far too unbelievable. Coupled with that Bosch plays the wise old cop who plays by his own rules but gets results a little too much. all in all a very poor effort
 as gripping as ever April 8, 2008
P. SACRE (Egypt)
I have read all his books and hesitated getting this one based on all the negative reviews this site and others have. So I started reading with apprehension. And then time warped, hours went by and I read it in one sitting. This is admittedly a straight, no frills, Harry Bosch tale, but it does the job of hooking you with a good suspense as usual with Michael. This is a very well told story, with a good final twist, very entertaining as it should be under the Connelly name. For me it is NOT a dud like the previous reviews said. I loved it, thanks Michael
 A bad Harry Bosch - gulp March 25, 2008
J. A. Harrison
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Echo Park, the last Bosch novel, was great, but the Overlook is seriously bad.
The 'crime' is plain silly; the denouement stretches credibility too far; Bosch is almost completely anonymous throughout and, most annoyingly, seems Hell bent in getting in the way of the FBI - who are investigating terrorism - for no good reason except cussedness.
This really is not what we have come to expect from Bosch novels. I feel let down having burbled on to everyone I know about how wonderful Michael Connelly is.
It's not wrist-slittingly bad, but it just soooo inferior to any other Harry Bosch novel that I would think very seriously about buying the next Bosch opus.
I see this started life as a newspaper serial. It should have stayed there.
Not what we were used to but still very readable February 28, 2008
J. Potter (Berkshire, England)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Michael Connelly used to write intricately detailed crime novels. But these days he seems to be producing paint by numbers thrillers. That is not to say his books are not very readable, they are just not the experience they used to be.
Take for instance Bosch: Connelly's defining character. Bosch used to be soulful and driven in a way that leapt off the page - with his deliberation and dilemma of life appealing to the reader as much as the intricate weaving of plot. But these days Bosch starts at the beginning and heads straight for the finish line, hitting key markers along the way, but not giving us what we have previously come to love as a Bosch novel - we don't get soulful.
Here Bosch freshly reinstated to homicide gets an eagerly anticipated call in the middle of the night. Which seems to be about a bunch of Islamic terrorists stealing radioactive material with which to fuel a war on terror. And onwards Bosch goes relentlessly chasing down the murder at the investigations core while local FBI, media and bureaucracy tarry at the coalface of terror.
Which is the welcome angle to this novel as Connelly takes a rare opportunity to turn Americana in on itself. Revealing the frustration many Americans now have with being fed sound bytes in the name of war. But that is where the appeal ends I am afraid. For an author that is generally considered to have written the best opening sentence to any crime novel - ever (The Poet) this is entertaining, but a longways short of what we were used to.
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