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If you read them as long ago as I did, it's hard to remember. I think it was The Brass Verdict.
Q & A from that book:
"Michael Connelly: This book grew out of a single scene I wrote in a book a long, long time ago. The book was The Black Ice, which was published in 1993. In it Harry Bosch reminisces about the time he went to the funeral of the father he never knew. He was a young man just out of the army and back from Vietnam. He stands up on a hill and watches his father’s funeral from afar. He also sees that his father, the celebrated L.A. criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller, had children, and that means Harry has half siblings. Well, one of those half siblings is Mickey Haller Jr., who grew up to be the Lincoln lawyer."
Thanks for the research
I guess to me going to the funeral of a man he never met in person isn’t really “meeting his father” so now I know why I didn’t remember it—
And while I read the book it was long time ago and I didn’t remember that—
But in Harry’s fashion—he liked to keep people at arms’ length and he certainly did that with his dad
J. Michael “Mickey” Haller, Sr is Harry Bosch and Mickey Haller’s father. He was a premiere criminal defense attorney in Los Angeles. He died when Harry was 20 and Mickey was 5.
If Harry met his father it had to been in flashback since no book is set in his youth—
Harry joined Marines at 17 and went to Vietnam, serving two tours—so his father would have died likely when Harry was on active duty…
Ah sucks that really sux. Bosch will never get closure
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If you read them as long ago as I did, it's hard to remember. I think it was The Brass Verdict.
Q & A from that book:
"Michael Connelly: This book grew out of a single scene I wrote in a book a long, long time ago. The book was The Black Ice, which was published in 1993. In it Harry Bosch reminisces about the time he went to the funeral of the father he never knew. He was a young man just out of the army and back from Vietnam. He stands up on a hill and watches his father’s funeral from afar. He also sees that his father, the celebrated L.A. criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller, had children, and that means Harry has half siblings. Well, one of those half siblings is Mickey Haller Jr., who grew up to be the Lincoln lawyer."
Yeh, and in the Lincoln Lawyer series on Netflix, Haller implies that his father is already dead in the last episode. So on screen it is impossible for this meeting to happen.
But I think I remember reading something about something Haller Sr said to Bosch along the lines of how he was sorry he not get to know sooner but it is because the times and culture were different back then, and he couldnt reveal himself.
I guess I am a Bosch dummy. Until reading this forum I did not know that Bosch and Lincoln Lawyer had any connection.......
Hey, why would you? It's just that some of us are Connelly nerds! And if the next episode of Bosch doesn't come up with a good explanation for that flashback, they're not being fair to all their viewers!
I just saw the scene in which a young Bosch visits Haller senior and asks him something along the lines of "how much were you and my mother to each other". Which implies Bosch knows Haller Sr is his old man. The Haller Sr just responds with how sorry he is for not looking him up, and that Haller Sr was the one helping Mrs Bosch with getting Bosch out of the system.
Seems like Haller Sr does not care too much for his first born son. Pretty cold
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