Narcotics officer Cal Moore’s orders were to look into the city’s latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.
Years ago, Harry Bosch learned the first rule of the good cop: don’t look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Now, Harry’s making some very dangerous connections, starting with one dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that winds from Hollywood Boulevard’s drug bazaar to the dusty back alleys south of the border and into the center of a complex and lethal game—one in which Harry is the next and likeliest victim.
It is a very entertaining reading if you can keep track of the good guys and the bad guys A Harry Bosch story 9is always exciting to read, first he is always in an almost knock downverbal fight with the brass, high above him in the power system. He always does things his way and this is one time the story becomes a cat and mouse game between the detective and the .powers pver whether or not Bosch will have any part in investigating the death of one of the departments own. The department seemingly leans toward suicide, Bosch says murder and it’s at this point that Bosch works his…
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Rogue Cop in 1980’s Los Angeles “The Black Ice” by Michael Connelly is set in Los Angeles (and Northern Mexico) in what appears to be in the early 1980s. It’s about drugs, bad cops, murders, life in L.A. during the 80’s, and a corrupt police department. The star is Harry Bosch, a late 30-something smart cop in an investigative unit in Hollywood, a very low rung on a low ladder. Bosch is a lady’s man, unmarried, at times a loose cannon, very high risk “go-it-alone” kind of…