This is the third novel in a Harry Bosch trilogy, the first two being A Darkness More Than Night, and the second being City of Bones, books that I’ve already reviewed. These were three books that Connelly wrote in order, one each in 2001, 2002, and 2003. In this book, there was a $2,000,000 heist of cash from a movie set. A director, impressed with his own very hot credentials, decided that he had to shoot some scenes with real money, not fake money, allegedly because anyone could tell it wasn’t real money in all the close-ups they were planning to shoot with the cash. Right? Anyhow, despite heavy security and despite a real gun battle that breaks out on the set, the heist is successful and goes unsolved. Another unsolved part of the case was the death of Angella Benton, an employee of the movie company, who was killed three days prior to the heist. Four years later, Harry is a now a retired detective, a private detective, and he decides to pursue the case which has gone cold. He was upset when the case was taken away from him only a few days after the robbery. And, Harry had been on the scene of the movie with the heist occurred, trying to get clues about Angella’s death, and it was Harry who fired the shots that wounded one of the thieves. Suddenly the FBI and the LAPD are leaning on him to drop his investigation, and of course, that only makes Harry more determined to solve the matter. To complicate the plot, there are a couple more characters. Marty Gessler, an FBI agent, was pursuing the money theft, and she simply disappeared. The two detectives from the LAPD who were assigned the case met an unfortunate end. They were in a bar when a robbery took place. One of the cops was killed and the other was left as a quadriplegic. How are these matters all connected? Connelly will lead you threw it all, only bringing the plots successfully together at the end. This was good entertainment, not a great book – a solid airplane novel, and I’ll keep Connelly in my power rotation.
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