迈克尔•康奈利是美国前总统比尔•克林顿、摇滚巨星米克•贾格尔等人最喜欢的推理小说家，他也被称为世界上最好的警探小说作家。他的小说迄今为止销售了700万册，被翻译成31种文字，并年年蝉联《纽约时报》畅销书排行榜榜首。惊悚小说大师斯蒂芬•金非常赏识康奈利的作品，还特为他的《诗人》一书作序。 自出道以来，康奈利获奖无数，其中包括爱伦、坡奖、安东尼奖、尼罗•伍尔美奖、夏姆斯奖、马耳他之鹰奖，以及法国的.38Caliber、Grand Prix及意大利的Premio Bancarella等奖项。他还曾担任美国推理小说作家协会(MWA)主席一职。 迈克尔•康奈利从事小说创作之前，在《洛杉矶时报》担任犯罪新闻记者，丰富的体验为他的写作提供了坚实的基础。1992年康奈利创作了以洛杉矶警探哈里•博斯为主角的小说《黑色回声》，获得当年爱伦•坡奖的最佳处女作奖。截止200...(展开全部)

Harry Bosch is assigned a homicide call in South L.A. that takes him to Fortune Liquors, where the Chinese owner has been shot to death behind the counter in an apparent robbery. Joined by members of the department's Asian Crime Unit, Bosch relentlessly investigates the killing and soon identifies a suspect, a Los Angeles member of a Hong Kong triad. But before Harry can close...(展开全部)

LAPD Detective Harry Bosch is off the chain in the fastest, fiercest, and highest-stakes case of his life. Fortune Liquors is a small shop in a tough South L.A. neighborhood, a store Bosch has known for years. The murder of John Li, the store's owner, hits Bosch hard, and he promises Li's family that he'll find the killer. The world Bosch steps into next is unknown ...(展开全部)

For many years Detective Harry Bosch has known Fortune Liquors, a small shop in tough south L.A A matchbook he once picked up there had a motto Happyis the man who finds refuge in himself--that guided him through some of his darkest days. Now the store's owner has been murdered and. hit hard by his death. Bosch vows to find the killer. With the help of a detective from thee As...(展开全部)

In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers . . .

Men could never live on such a star; only by the most advanced technology can humans exist in synchronous orbit to observe it. The surface gravity is an incredible sixty-seven billion times that of Earth, with matter so compressed that the mass of a normal star is packed into a crusted sphere only twenty kilometers in diameter. A magnetic field two trillion times that of Earth ...(展开全部)

In a moving story of sacrifice and triumph, human scientists establish a relationship with intelligent lifeforms--the cheela--living on Dragon's Egg, a neutron star where one Earth hour is equivalent to hundreds of their years. The cheela culturally evolve from savagery to the discovery of science, and for a brief time, men are their diligent teachers . . .

In the J.D. Salinger benchmark "A Perfect Day for Bananafish," Seymour Glass floats his beach mate Sybil on a raft and tells her about these creatures' tragic flaw. Though they seem normal, if one swims into a hole filled with bananas, it will overeat until it's too fat to escape. Meanwhile, Seymour's wife, Muriel, is back at their Florida hotel, assuring her mother not to worr...(展开全部)