Hopper’s Nighthawks.
Hollywood was always best viewed at night. It could only hold its mystique in darkness. In sunlight the curtain comes up and the intrigue is gone, replaced by a sense of hidden danger. It was a place...
His eyes strayed past us to the television. On the program they were now selling a glove with small rubber bristles on the palm for grooming pets. I know what else you could use that for, Adkins said....
He was a worn-out old man whose eyes had quit caring about anything but the odds on three-year-olds.
He knew that you didn’t win justice by carrying a sign or a cardboard coffin. You earned it by being on the side of the righteous, by being unswayed from that
He knew that passion was a key element in any investigation. Passion was the fuel that kept his fire burning. So he purposely sought the personal connection or, short of that, the personal outrage in...
He knew that in his internal universe, there was a mission etched in a secret language, like drawings on the wall of an ancient cave, that gave him his direction and meaning. It could not be altered a...
He believed that war brought out the true character in a person, good or bad. He had no sympathy for Banks or the others.
Farmers Market, one of his favorite places in the city.
Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.
Everybody has a need for their past, Bosch thought. Sometimes it pulls harder on you than the future.
Eenie, meenie, minie, moe, catch a killer by the toe. If his lawyer’s Haller, let him go. Eenie, meenie, minie, moe. Hey bro.
EVEN THOUGH I KNEW it was going to be what she would ask me, Graciela McCaleb’s request gave me pause. Terry McCaleb had died on his boat a month earlier. I had read about it in the Las Vegas Sun. It...
Don't go growing a conscience on me, I said. I've been down that road. It doesn't lead you to anything good.
Did you
Death is my beat. I make my living from it. I forge my professional reputation on it. I treat it with the passion and precision of an undertaker--somber and sympathetic about it when I'm with the bere...
Darkness waits. But it comes no matter what you do.
Damn Russians, Siegel muttered. I hope I live long enough to see that guy impeached.
Chapter 4
Bosch took a step toward him. Olivas, let’s get something clear before we go anywhere. You call me ‘Hotshot’ again and I’m going to shove the file up your ass without taking it out of my briefcase.