The Drop (Harry Bosch)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611139198 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 309 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-08 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Councilman Irvin Irving's son jumped or was pushed from a window at the Chateau Marmont. In one morning, he gets two.DNA from a 1989 rape and murder matches a 29-year-old convicted rapist. Was he an eight-year-old killer or has something gone terribly wrong in the new Regional Crime Lab? The latter possibility could compromise all of the lab's DNA cases currently in court.Then Bosch and his partner are called to a death scene fraught with internal politics. Irving, Bosch's longtime nemesis, has demanded that Harry handle the investigation.Relentlessly pursuing both cases, Bosch makes two chilling discoveries: a killer operating unknown in the city for as many as three decades, and a political conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department.. Harry Bosch has been given three years before he must retire from the LAPD, and he wants cases more fi
. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. Michael Connelly is the author of the recent #1 "New York Times "bestsellers "The Fifth Witness, The Reversal," "The Scarecrow," "The Brass Verdict," and "The Lincoln Lawyer, " as well as the bestselling Harry Bosch series of novels. He spends his time in California and Florida
Alan Mills said Mickey Haller is Back!. Connelly is best known for his Harry Bosch seriesand Harry plays a role here, but the book is about Mickey Haller. Haller is an attorney who operates his criminal defense practice out of the back seat of his Lincoln. He rushes from courthouse to courthouse, covering calls, . Viewster said Harry Bosch: at it once again. This is later, but vintage Harry Bosch. Connelly carries of juggling two separate story lines deftly, as he has done before, without losing control of narrative, pacing, or characterization. Along the way his characters, many of whom are "survivors" of earlier Bosch stories. An (Administrative) Procedural Richard B. Schwartz First off: the title. The `Drop' is the Deferred Retirement Option Plan. Harry has been given three years before he will be forced to retire from the LAPD and he wants to make the most of the time available. He is working two cases--a murder (or is it a suicide?) at the Cha
Harry's pursuit of that case is interrupted by the apparent suicide of a councilman's son. In pursuit of the truth, and an elusive killer, Bosch and his partner uncover secrets and a political conspiracy deep within the police department. A former police chief and no fan of Harry's, the councilman insists that Harry investigate his son's death. Best Books of the Month, December 2011: With his retirement looming, LAPD's Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch takes on two seemingly unrelated cases. --Neal Thompson. The first