stereotypes and delivers this front-page story with military precision. Police higher-ups are somewhat cliched, but Connelly avoids L.A. Paired with beautiful FBI agent Eleanor Wish, Harry makes sense of the Vietnam connection to the bank job-a discovery that puts them both in danger from deadly ex-Marines and a powerful insider from either the LAPD or the FBI itself. The Bureau alerts the LAPD, which reactivates internal affairs surveillance (the previous IAD episode is explained throughout the narrative), only to have the FBI backtrack and request Harry as liaison on the case. Investigation connects his old pal to an unsolved bank job-the vault was tunneled into from the storm drains below-and Harry takes his information to the FBI. Harry recognizes the corpse as that of a fellow soldier in Vietnam both were ``tunnel rats'' who searched for Viet Cong in the network of burrows beneath Vietnamese villages. homicide desk to the lowly Beverly Hills squad-gets the call on a drug death at Mulholland Dam. Hieronymus (Harry) Bosch-former hero cop bumped from the L.A. police procedural with this original and eminently authentic first novel. Near the on-ramp to the 101 Freeway, theyre flagged down by a frantic man who has just been mugged. Connelly, a crime reporter for the Los Angeles Times, transcends the standard L.A. They drive through the famous Sunset Boulevards in a black-and-white squad car.
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