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The Overlook [A Harry Bosch Novel] [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe]
eBook by Michael Connelly
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eBook Category: Mystery/Crime
eBook Description:  In his first case since he left the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit for the prestigious Homicide Special squad, Harry Bosch is called out to investigate a murder that may have chilling consequences for national security. A doctor with access to a dangerous radioactive substance is found murdered in the trunk of his car. Retracing his steps, Harry learns that a large quantity of radioactive cesium was stolen shortly before the doctor's death. With the cesium in unknown hands, Harry fears the murder could be part of a terrorist plot to poison a major American city. Soon, Bosch is in a race against time, not only against the culprits, but also against the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI (in the form of Harry's one-time lover Rachel Walling), who are convinced that this case is too important for the likes of the LAPD. It is Bosch's job to prove all of them wrong.
eBook Publisher: Hachette Book Group/Little, Brown and Company
Fictionwise Release Date: May 2007
This eBook is part of the following series:
Available eBook Formats [Secure eReader (recommended)/Mobipocket/Microsoft Reader/Adobe - What's this?]: SECURE MOBIPOCKET FORMAT [397 KB], SECURE MICROSOFT READER FORMAT [254 KB] - Requires Microsoft Reader 2.1.1 for PCs, or Microsoft Reader 2.2.2 on Pocket PC 2002 handheld devices. Some older Pocket PCs can be upgraded. Learn More., SECURE EREADER (RECOMMENDED) FORMAT [149 KB], SECURE ADOBE READER 7 FORMAT [1.1 MB], OEBFF Format (IMP) [317 KB]
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Microsoft Reader ISBN: 9780316005203
eReader (recommended) ISBN: 9780316005234
MobiPocket Reader ISBN: 9780316005210
Adobe Acrobat Reader ISBN: 9780316005197
 
ONE THE CALL CAME AT MIDNIGHT. Harry Bosch was awake and sitting in the living room in the dark. He liked to think that he was doing this because it allowed him to hear the saxophone better. By masking one of the senses he accentuated another. But deep down he knew the truth. He was waiting. The call was from Larry Gandle, his supervisor in Homicide Special. It was Bosch's first call out in the new job. And it was what he had been waiting for. "Harry, you up?" "I'm up." "Who's that you got playing?" "Frank Morgan, live at the Jazz Standard in New York. That's George Cables you're hearing now on piano." "Sounds like 'All Blues.'" "You nailed it." "Good stuff. I hate to take you away from it." Bosch used the remote to turn the music off. "What's the call, Lieutenant?" "Hollywood wants you and Iggy to come out and take over a case. They've already caught three today and can't handle a fourth. This one also looks like it might become a hobby. It looks like an execution." The Los Angeles Police Department had seventeen geographic divisions, each with its own station and detective bureau, including a homicide squad. But the divisional squads were the first line and couldn't get bogged down on long-running cases. When a murder came with any sort of political, celebrity or media attachment, it was usually shuttled down to Homicide Special, which operated out of the Robbery-Homicide Division in Parker Center. Any case that appeared to be particularly difficult and time-consuming—that would invariably stay active like a hobby—would also be an immediate candidate for Homicide Special. This was one of those. "Where is it?" Bosch asked. "Up on that overlook above the Mulholland Dam. You know the place?" "Yeah, I've been up there." Bosch got up and walked to the dining room table. He opened a drawer designed for silverware and took out a pen and a small notebook. On the first page of the notebook he wrote down the date and the location of the murder scene. "Any other details I should know?" Bosch asked. "Not a lot," Gandle said. "Like I said, it was described to me as an execution. Two in the back of the head. Somebody took this guy up there and blew his brains out all over that pretty view." Bosch let this register a moment before asking the next question. "Do they know who the dead guy is?" "The divisionals are working on it. Maybe they'll have something by the time you get over there. It's practically in your neighborhood, right?" "Not too far." Gandle gave Bosch more specifics on the location of the crime scene and asked if Harry would make the next call out to his partner. Bosch said he would take care of it. "Okay, Harry, get up there and see what's what, then call me and let me know. Just wake me up. Everybody else does." Bosch thought it was just like a supervisor to complain about getting woken up to a person he would routinely wake up over the course of their relationship. "You got it," Bosch said. Copyright © 2006, 2007 by Hieronymus, Inc.
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