‘Well, we’ve got a lot of ground to cover,’ Bosch said. ‘I once heard this story about a sculptor and somebody asked him how he turned a block of granite into a beautiful statue of a woman. And he said that he just chips away everything that isn’t the woman. That’s what we have to do now. We’ve got this big block of information and evidence. We’ve got to chip away everything that doesn’t count, that doesn’t fit.’ Billets smiled and Bosch suddenly felt embarrassed about the analogy, though he believed it was accurate. ‘What about Las Vegas?’ she asked. ‘Is that part of the statue or the part we
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