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First Published:
May 2005, 416 pages
Paperback:
Feb 2006, 464 pages
Detective Harry Bosch is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved cases. The murder of a 16 year old girl in 1988 is his first file. A DNA match makes the case very much alive again, and it turns out to be anything but cold. The ripples from this death have destroyed at least two other lives, and everywhere he probes, Bosch finds hot grief, hot rage, and a bottomless well of betrayal and malice.
Winner of the 2006 BookBrowse Diamond Award for Most Popular Book of 2005.
In Los Angeles in 1988, a sixteen-year-old girl
disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot
wound to the chest. The death appeared at first to be a suicide - but
some of the evidence contradicted that scenario, and detectives
came to believe this was in fact a murder. Despite a by-the-book
investigation, no one was ever charged.
Now Detective Harry Bosch
is back with the LAPD with the sole mission of closing unsolved
cases, and this girl's death is the first he's given. A DNA match
makes the case very much alive again, and it turns out to be
anything but cold. The ripples from this death have destroyed at
least two other lives, and everywhere he probes, Bosch finds hot
grief, hot rage, and a bottomless well of betrayal and malice.
And it's not just the girl's family and friends whose lives
Bosch is stirring up afresh. With each new development, Harry Bosch
finds increasing resistance from within the police force itself.
Old enemies are close at hand. Even as he pushes relentlessly to
find the truth, Bosch has to wonder if this assignment was intended
to be his last. Digging up the past may heal old wounds-or it may
expose new, searing ones.
From the mind of the man GQ has called "the best
mystery writer in the world," The Closers is a masterpiece
of thriller writing that is as sharp and immediate as the greatest
fiction.
Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook, eBook and Large Print
Edition.
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Within the practice and protocol of the Los Angeles Police Department a
two-six call is the one that draws the most immediate response
while striking the most fear behind the bulletproof vest. For
it is a call that often has a career riding on it. The
designation is derived from the combination of the Code 2 radio
call out, meaning "respond as soon as possible," and the sixth
floor of Parker Center, from which the chief of police commands
the department. A two-six is a forthwith from the chief's
office, and any officer who knows and enjoys his position in
the department will not delay.
Detective Harry Bosch spent over twenty-five years with the
department in his first tour and never once received a
forthwith from the chief of ...
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