Characters in The Black Echo

Harry Bosch

LAPD Hollywood Division homicide detective and Vietnam veteran, demoted from Robbery-Homicide, who works the case with single-minded obsession.

Also in The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde, The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight, A Darkness More Than Night, City of Bones, Lost Light, The Narrows, The Closers

Eleanor Wish

FBI special agent assigned to the linked bank-burglary case who partners with Bosch and grows close to him.

Also in Trunk Music, Lost Light

Billy Meadows

Bosch's fellow Vietnam tunnel rat, found dead, whose death opens the investigation.