The Black Ice (First Edition)
CONNELLY, Michael. The Black Ice. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.
8vo. Quarter red cloth over black paper boards. Gilt titling to spine. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. [vi], 322 pp. First edition. Full number line present.
The Black Ice is the second novel in Connelly's Harry Bosch series, following the Edgar Award-winning debut The Black Echo (1992). When LAPD detective Hieronymus Bosch investigates the apparent suicide of a fellow officer found dead in a motel room, the trail leads into the world of a particularly lethal drug known as black ice — and from the streets of Los Angeles across the border into Mexico, where corruption, cartel violence, and a web of interconnected deaths await.
Connelly had spent a decade as a crime journalist before writing fiction, and the authority of his procedural detail distinguishes the Bosch series from the outset. The Black Ice won the Maltese Falcon Award from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan and confirmed that the first novel had not been a fluke. The series went on to span twenty-one novels and the long-running Amazon television adaptation; this first edition, from the earliest years of that run, predates all of it.
Near fine in like dust jacket. Mild sun fading to jacket spine, otherwise colours bold, bright, and true. Boards fine. Contents near fine; some minor foxing along edges of textblock.
This book is currently on display in our Penrith store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000004
Description
CONNELLY, Michael. The Black Ice. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1993.
8vo. Quarter red cloth over black paper boards. Gilt titling to spine. Unclipped pictorial dust jacket. [vi], 322 pp. First edition. Full number line present.
The Black Ice is the second novel in Connelly's Harry Bosch series, following the Edgar Award-winning debut The Black Echo (1992). When LAPD detective Hieronymus Bosch investigates the apparent suicide of a fellow officer found dead in a motel room, the trail leads into the world of a particularly lethal drug known as black ice — and from the streets of Los Angeles across the border into Mexico, where corruption, cartel violence, and a web of interconnected deaths await.
Connelly had spent a decade as a crime journalist before writing fiction, and the authority of his procedural detail distinguishes the Bosch series from the outset. The Black Ice won the Maltese Falcon Award from the Maltese Falcon Society of Japan and confirmed that the first novel had not been a fluke. The series went on to span twenty-one novels and the long-running Amazon television adaptation; this first edition, from the earliest years of that run, predates all of it.
Near fine in like dust jacket. Mild sun fading to jacket spine, otherwise colours bold, bright, and true. Boards fine. Contents near fine; some minor foxing along edges of textblock.
This book is currently on display in our Penrith store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: [email protected]
Catalogue Number: HH000004
