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* CuffsOffRubWrists: A screenwriter is handcuffed by Bosch. After the cuffs are removed, he rubs his wrists and says he always wondered how that felt.
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Bosch takes on a case involving a shooting in a convenience store. A Chinese-American store owner, John Li, was shot down in cold blood behind the counter of his store. Bosch zeroes in on Triad gangster Bo-Jing Chang as a suspect after store cameras show Chang coming to the store to extract an extortion payment from Li. Bosch has a personal connection with China; his daughter Madeline lives in Hong Kong with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish. Things get very personal for Bosch when, after receiving a warning to back off the Li murder, he finds out that his daughter has been kidnapped. Bosch frantically catches the next flight to Hong Kong and goes on a perilous mission to rescue Madeline from the Triads.
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Bosch takes on a case involving a shooting in death of a convenience store. A Chinese-American convenience store owner, John Li, who was shot down in cold blood behind the counter of his store. counter. Bosch zeroes in on Triad gangster Bo-Jing Chang as a suspect after store cameras show Chang him coming to the store to extract an extortion payment from Li. Bosch has a personal connection with China; his daughter Madeline lives in Hong Kong with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish. Things get very personal for Bosch when, after receiving a warning to back off the Li murder, he finds out that his daughter has been kidnapped. Bosch frantically catches the next flight to Hong Kong and goes on a perilous mission to rescue Madeline from the Triads.
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* AsianStoreOwner: John Li is an immigrant from China who is very traditional. This caused some tension with his son Robert, who is American-born and doesn't want to pay the Triad any more.
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* AsianStoreOwner: John Li is was an immigrant from China who is very traditional. This caused some tension with his son Robert, who is American-born and doesn't want to pay the Triad any more.anymore.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Eugene Lam, an employee of John Li's son Robert, appears in one scene. He's revealed in the end to be the shooter, although both Robert and his sister Mia were in on the plot.
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* ChekhovsGunman: Eugene Lam, an employee of John Li's son Robert, appears in one scene. He's [[spoiler:He's revealed in the end to be the shooter, although both Robert and his sister Mia were in on the plot.]]
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Madeline's kidnapping had nothing to do with the Li murder. His daughter just happened to get kidnapped in Hong Kong at the same time Bosch was investigating a murder with suspected Triad connections.
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Madeline's [[spoiler:Madeline's kidnapping had nothing to do with the Li murder. His daughter just happened to get kidnapped in Hong Kong at the same time Bosch was investigating a murder with suspected Triad connections.]]
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* DrivenToSuicide: Mia Li, caught for the murder of her father, first shoots Bosch's partner to death, then kills herself.
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* DrivenToSuicide: Mia [[spoiler:Mia Li, caught for the murder of her father, first shoots Bosch's partner to death, then kills herself.]]
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* InTheBack: How Bosch's partner Ignacio Ferras gets it, shot four times in the back by Mia Li.
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* InTheBack: How [[spoiler:How Bosch's partner Ignacio Ferras gets it, shot four times in the back by Mia Li.]]
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* LanguageFluencyDenial: Bosch catches a Triad gangster on the boat, but when Bosch grabs him and demands "Can you swim, asshole?", the gangster can only say "No speak." This causes Bosch to hesitate, which allows the gangster to escape. When he comes back after Bosch with a knife he says "Can you swim, asshole?"
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* LanguageFluencyDenial: Bosch catches a Triad gangster on the boat, but when Bosch grabs him and demands "Can you swim, asshole?", the gangster can only say "No speak." This causes Bosch to hesitate, which allows the gangster to escape. When he comes back after Bosch with a knife he says says, "Can you swim, asshole?"
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Bosch finally finds his daughter, alive, bound and gagged and stuffed in a trunk.
* ThePlotReaper: Eleanor Wish needs to die so Harry can take custody of their daughter.
* RedHerring: The whole Bo-jing Chang and Chinese gangster angle turns out to be a red herring cooked up by Robert and Mia Li.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Bosch is going to rescue his daughter, and will go to any lengths to do so. Eleanor's death during the search just drives him that much harder to find Maddie. Bosch kills five people during the rescue mission, his highest body count in the series.
* ThePlotReaper: Eleanor Wish needs to die so Harry can take custody of their daughter.
* RedHerring: The whole Bo-jing Chang and Chinese gangster angle turns out to be a red herring cooked up by Robert and Mia Li.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Bosch is going to rescue his daughter, and will go to any lengths to do so. Eleanor's death during the search just drives him that much harder to find Maddie. Bosch kills five people during the rescue mission, his highest body count in the series.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Bosch [[spoiler:Bosch finally finds his daughter, alive, bound and gagged and stuffed in a trunk.
trunk.]]
* ThePlotReaper:Eleanor [[spoiler:Eleanor Wish needs to die so Harry can take custody of their daughter.
daughter.]]
* RedHerring:The [[spoiler:The whole Bo-jing Chang and Chinese gangster angle turns out to be a red herring cooked up by Robert and Mia Li.
Li.]]
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Bosch is going to rescue hisdaughter, daughter and will go to any lengths to do so. Eleanor's [[spoiler:Eleanor]]'s death during the search just drives him that much harder to find Maddie. Bosch kills five people during the rescue mission, his highest body count in the series.
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* RedHerring:
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Bosch is going to rescue his
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* OneHundredEight: Bosch discovers that the murdered Chinese convenience store owner was making payoffs to the Triads in increments of $216--two times 108. Fellow detective David Chu explains to him the significance of 108 in the founding of the Triads.
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* MythologyGag: Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, who played Mickey Haller in the film of ''Film/TheLincolnLawyer'', is cited as an alibi witness by a screenwriter.
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* MythologyGag: Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, who played Mickey Haller in the film of ''Film/TheLincolnLawyer'', ''Literature/TheLincolnLawyer'', is cited as an alibi witness by a screenwriter.
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* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Bosch suspects Triad involvement when a Chinese store owner is murdered. After he arrests a Triad gangster in LA, his daughter is kidnapped in Hong Kong.
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* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Bosch suspects Triad involvement when a Chinese store owner is murdered. After he arrests a Triad gangster in LA, his daughter is kidnapped in Hong Kong.Kong.
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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Bosch is going to rescue his daughter, and will go to any lengths to do so. Eleanor's death during the search just drives him that much harder to find Maddie. Bosch kills five people during the rescue mission, his highest body count in the series.
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* ContinuityNod: The Li convenience store is the same store where Bosch wound up at the climax of prior Connelly novel ''Angels Flight''.
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* ContinuityNod: The Li convenience store is the same store where Bosch wound up at the climax of prior Connelly novel ''Angels Flight''.''Literature/AngelsFlight''.
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* TheCameo: Mickey Haller, protagonist of five Connelly novels, makes a brief appearance after Bosch finds himself in urgent need of a lawyer upon returning to LA.
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* TheCameo: Mickey Haller, Literature/MickeyHaller, protagonist of five Connelly novels, makes a brief appearance after Bosch finds himself in urgent need of a lawyer upon returning to LA.
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''9 Dragons'' is a 2009 novel by Creator/MichaelConnelly.
Detective Harry Bosch (star of about 2/3 of Connelly's novels) takes on a case involving a shooting in a convenience store. A Chinese-American store owner, John Li, was shot down in cold blood behind the counter of his store. Bosch zeroes in on Triad gangster Bo-Jing Chang as a suspect after store cameras show Chang coming to the store to extract an extortion payment from Li. Bosch has a personal connection with China; his daughter Madeline lives in Hong Kong with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish. Things get very personal for Bosch when, after receiving a warning to back off the Li murder, he finds out that his daughter has been kidnapped. Bosch frantically catches the next flight to Hong Kong and goes on a perilous mission to rescue Madeline from the Triads.
Detective Harry Bosch (star of about 2/3 of Connelly's novels) takes on a case involving a shooting in a convenience store. A Chinese-American store owner, John Li, was shot down in cold blood behind the counter of his store. Bosch zeroes in on Triad gangster Bo-Jing Chang as a suspect after store cameras show Chang coming to the store to extract an extortion payment from Li. Bosch has a personal connection with China; his daughter Madeline lives in Hong Kong with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish. Things get very personal for Bosch when, after receiving a warning to back off the Li murder, he finds out that his daughter has been kidnapped. Bosch frantically catches the next flight to Hong Kong and goes on a perilous mission to rescue Madeline from the Triads.
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''9 Dragons'' is a 2009 novel by Creator/MichaelConnelly.
Detective HarryCreator/MichaelConnelly featuring detective Literature/HarryBosch.
Bosch(star of about 2/3 of Connelly's novels) takes on a case involving a shooting in a convenience store. A Chinese-American store owner, John Li, was shot down in cold blood behind the counter of his store. Bosch zeroes in on Triad gangster Bo-Jing Chang as a suspect after store cameras show Chang coming to the store to extract an extortion payment from Li. Bosch has a personal connection with China; his daughter Madeline lives in Hong Kong with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish. Things get very personal for Bosch when, after receiving a warning to back off the Li murder, he finds out that his daughter has been kidnapped. Bosch frantically catches the next flight to Hong Kong and goes on a perilous mission to rescue Madeline from the Triads.
Detective Harry
Bosch
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It\'s more of a mythology gag than a shout out and the lincoln lawyer is Mickey\'s movie. Blood Work was Terry Mc Caleb\'s and Clint Eastwood was the star there.
* MythologyGag: Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, who played Mickey Haller in the film of ''Film/TheLincolnLawyer'', is cited as an alibi witness by a screenwriter.
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* ShoutOut: Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, who played Mickey Haller in the film of ''Film/BloodWork'', is cited as an alibi witness by a screenwriter.
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* DrivenToSuicide: MIa Li, caught for the murder of her father, first shoots Bosch's partner to death, then kills herself.
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* DrivenToSuicide: MIa Mia Li, caught for the murder of her father, first shoots Bosch's partner to death, then kills herself.
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* BloodFromTheMouth: Subverted. Bosch notices that the blood on John Li's mouth was smeared, not just coughed up. He figures out that Li swallowed a bullet casing before he died.
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* CoverEqualsConcealment: Averted. Bosch kills one gangster by shooting him through a rusty metal door.
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* CoverEqualsConcealment: ConcealmentEqualsCover: Averted. Bosch kills one gangster by shooting him through a rusty metal door.
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* InTheBack: How Bosch's partner Ignacio Ferras gets it, shot four times in the back by Mia Li.
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* CoverEqualsConcealment: Averted. Bosch kills one gangster by shooting him through a rusty metal door.
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* PunkInTheTrunk: Bosch finally finds his daughter, alive, bound and gagged and stuffed in a trunk.
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* LanguageFluencyDenial: Bosch catches a Triad gangster on the boat, but when Bosch grabs him and demands "Can you swim, asshole?", the gangster can only say "No speak." This causes Bosch to hesitate, which allows the gangster to escape. When he comes back after Bosch with a knife he says "Can you swim, asshole?"
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* AbandonedArea: Bosch and Sun finally trace Madeline to a shipyard, which is abandoned because it's Sunday.
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* RedHerring: The whole Bo-jing Chang and Chinese gangster angle turns out to be a red herring cooked up by Robert and Mia Li.
* ShoutOut: Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, who played Mickey Haller in the film of ''Film/BloodWork'', is cited as an alibi witness by a screenwriter.
* ShoutOut: Creator/MatthewMcConaughey, who played Mickey Haller in the film of ''Film/BloodWork'', is cited as an alibi witness by a screenwriter.
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* CuffsOffRubsWrists: A screenwriter is handcuffed by Bosch. After the cuffs are removed, he rubs his wrists and says he always wondered how that felt.
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* CuffsOffRubsWrists: CuffsOffRubWrists: A screenwriter is handcuffed by Bosch. After the cuffs are removed, he rubs his wrists and says he always wondered how that felt.felt.
* EnhanceButton: Played realistically, with the use of a computer program to "guess" or fill in the missing data in a blurry picture.
* EnhanceButton: Played realistically, with the use of a computer program to "guess" or fill in the missing data in a blurry picture.
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* AsianStoreOwner: John Li is an immigrant from China who is very traditional. This caused some tension with his son Robert, who is American-born and doesn't want to pay the Triad any more.
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''9 Dragons'' is a 2009 novel by Creator/MichaelConnelly.
Detective Harry Bosch (star of about 2/3 of Connelly's novels) takes on a case involving a shooting in a convenience store. A Chinese-American store owner, John Li, was shot down in cold blood behind the counter of his store. Bosch zeroes in on Triad gangster Bo-Jing Chang as a suspect after store cameras show Chang coming to the store to extract an extortion payment from Li. Bosch has a personal connection with China; his daughter Madeline lives in Hong Kong with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish. Things get very personal for Bosch when, after receiving a warning to back off the Li murder, he finds out that his daughter has been kidnapped. Bosch frantically catches the next flight to Hong Kong and goes on a perilous mission to rescue Madeline from the Triads.
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* TheCameo: Mickey Haller, protagonist of five Connelly novels, makes a brief appearance after Bosch finds himself in urgent need of a lawyer upon returning to LA.
* ChekhovsGunman: Eugene Lam, an employee of John Li's son Robert, appears in one scene. He's revealed in the end to be the shooter, although both Robert and his sister Mia were in on the plot.
* ContinuityNod: The Li convenience store is the same store where Bosch wound up at the climax of prior Connelly novel ''Angels Flight''.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Madeline's kidnapping had nothing to do with the Li murder. His daughter just happened to get kidnapped in Hong Kong at the same time Bosch was investigating a murder with suspected Triad connections.
* InvulnerableKnuckles: Bosch's knuckles are bleeding after he punches a bad guy in Hong Kong.
* OneHundredEight: Bosch discovers that the murdered Chinese convenience store owner was making payoffs to the Triads in increments of $216--two times 108. Fellow detective David Chu explains to him the significance of 108 in the founding of the Triads.
* ThePlotReaper: Eleanor Wish needs to die so Harry can take custody of their daughter.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Bosch suspects Triad involvement when a Chinese store owner is murdered. After he arrests a Triad gangster in LA, his daughter is kidnapped in Hong Kong.
Detective Harry Bosch (star of about 2/3 of Connelly's novels) takes on a case involving a shooting in a convenience store. A Chinese-American store owner, John Li, was shot down in cold blood behind the counter of his store. Bosch zeroes in on Triad gangster Bo-Jing Chang as a suspect after store cameras show Chang coming to the store to extract an extortion payment from Li. Bosch has a personal connection with China; his daughter Madeline lives in Hong Kong with his ex-wife Eleanor Wish. Things get very personal for Bosch when, after receiving a warning to back off the Li murder, he finds out that his daughter has been kidnapped. Bosch frantically catches the next flight to Hong Kong and goes on a perilous mission to rescue Madeline from the Triads.
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* TheCameo: Mickey Haller, protagonist of five Connelly novels, makes a brief appearance after Bosch finds himself in urgent need of a lawyer upon returning to LA.
* ChekhovsGunman: Eugene Lam, an employee of John Li's son Robert, appears in one scene. He's revealed in the end to be the shooter, although both Robert and his sister Mia were in on the plot.
* ContinuityNod: The Li convenience store is the same store where Bosch wound up at the climax of prior Connelly novel ''Angels Flight''.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Madeline's kidnapping had nothing to do with the Li murder. His daughter just happened to get kidnapped in Hong Kong at the same time Bosch was investigating a murder with suspected Triad connections.
* InvulnerableKnuckles: Bosch's knuckles are bleeding after he punches a bad guy in Hong Kong.
* OneHundredEight: Bosch discovers that the murdered Chinese convenience store owner was making payoffs to the Triads in increments of $216--two times 108. Fellow detective David Chu explains to him the significance of 108 in the founding of the Triads.
* ThePlotReaper: Eleanor Wish needs to die so Harry can take custody of their daughter.
* TheTriadsAndTheTongs: Bosch suspects Triad involvement when a Chinese store owner is murdered. After he arrests a Triad gangster in LA, his daughter is kidnapped in Hong Kong.