When evidence links a brutal murder in 1989 to a convicted rapist named Clayton Pell, the case should be water-tight. Pell's DNA was found on the victim - but he was only eight years old at the time.
This is not the only mystery Harry Bosch has to solve. A man jumped - or was pushed - from a window. The victim's father is Councilman Irving, who's been intent on destroying Harry's career for years. Now Irving wants Harry to head up the investigation.
Harry uncovers traces of two of the city's deepest secrets: a killer operating for as many as three decades without being detected, and a conspiracy that goes back into the dark history of the police department...
Read by Len Cariou
- ISBN10 0446556696
- ISBN13 9780446556699
- Publish Date 16 October 2012 (first published 1 October 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher Time Warner Trade Publishing
- Imprint Warner Books Inc
- Format Paperback (US Mass Market)
- Pages 496
- Language English