The Black Ice (Harry Bosch, #2; Harry Bosch Universe, #2)

by Michael Connelly

‘There is no trap so deadly as the trap you set for yourself.’

What’s the point?” “There is no point, Lieutenant. I guess that’s the point.

“Could end up like you, out there in the cesspool.” “It’s all a cesspool, man. Doesn’t matter if you’re on the bottom or the top. You’re still swimming in shit.”

facts weren’t the most important part of an investigation, the glue was. He said the glue was made of instinct, imagination, sometimes guesswork and most times just plain luck.