The Drop

Memorable book on the never-ending struggle between Harry Bosch (HB) and Irvin S. Irving (ISI), once a front contender for LAPD Chief of Police, now a powerful member of Los Angeles’s City Council. In ‘The Last Coyote’ (1995) Harry found out that ISI was the young street cop who first discovered his mother’s dead body when he was only eleven years old. Ever since HB joined the LAPD, they have clashed…
Now ISI’s son is found dead and naked on the pavement in front of the hotel he checked himself into. ISI pulls strings and insists that HB gets the case and reports to him daily about the murder investigation. But was it murder? It means HB and his partner Chu have to suspend their normal work of solving cold cases and investigate a real crime scene. An ill-advised infatuation, single parenting his 15-year old daughter, frustration with partner Chu, ISI’s perceived scheming and the vagaries of dealing with the force’s top brass, take a heavy toll on Harry: late into the book he is seriously considering turning in his gold shield…
Well plotted and written with plenty of twists and turns and a satisfactory ending. However, the final pages suggest Harry may still call it quits. He has come close to making a huge mistake he would not have made five or even two years before. Is he losing his touch? Is he finally cracking under the combined weight of so much evil going on unnoticed and LAPDs poisonous politics? One of Connelly’s best police procedurals.

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