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October 17 - October 20, 2023
It was only after he had left that place safely that he acknowledged to himself there had been a thrill to it. And in looking to replace that thrill, he had joined the cops.
Sometimes Bosch thought of his city as some kind of vast drain that pulled all bad things toward a spot where they swirled around in a deep concentration.
Edgar carried a closed cardboard box across which someone had stenciled Xmas with a Magic Marker. He also had a broad smile on his face.
“Better be careful. You keep acting like that and you’ll lose your rep as a hardass.”
Then you solve the fucker. That takes balls and style, Bosch. I can dig that.”
All the bullshit aside, I like your style, too. Let me ask you something, why’d you tell me about the safe house and the Samoans? That wasn’t in keeping with your character.”
Just one of those macho male bonding calls.” Bosch smiled because she was so right.
He realized they were probably his own bullets in her and that she was dying because they had fucked up and let Powers get away. He almost wanted to ask her to forgive him, to say she understood how things could go so wrong.
That piece is haunted now. I don’t ever want it back.”
People can kill each other for all kinds of reasons. I guess they can fall in love with each other for all kinds of reasons. You gotta take it when it comes, no matter if it’s a girl like that or… someone else.”
Veronica Aliso was Layla’s mother. Tony Aliso had gone from the mother to the daughter.
She asked if he had an appointment and Bosch told her he didn’t make appointments with people like Chastain.
“The chief cut it down to a week,” Bosch said. “I call that a vacation.”
‘Exception to this code can be established if the officer can show to the satisfaction of superior officers a family relationship through blood or marriage. If that is established, officer must—’”
“What you have there, Chastain, is a marriage certificate issued in Clark County, Nevada, attesting to my marriage to Eleanor Wish. If that’s not good enough for you, beneath it are two affidavits from my partners. They witnessed the marriage. Best man and maid of honor.”
Billets and Rider should be safe from recriminations by the OCID chief. He could come after Bosch if he wanted, but Bosch felt safe now. Fitzgerald had nothing on him anymore. No one did.
