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Harry is back, assigned to the LAPD's Open Unsolved Unit with his former cop ally and partner, Kizmin Rider. These detectives are the Closers. They are thrown into a politically sensitive and dangerous case when a white supremacist is connected to the 1988 murder of a mixed-race girl.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and contemporary.
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- Author
- Michael Connelly
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Little, Brown and Company, Orion Publishing Group, Limited, Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- Chinese, English
- ISBN
- 9780759513631
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“WITHIN THE PRACTICE and protocol of the Los Angeles Police Department a two-six call is the one that draws the most immediate response while striking the most fear behind the bulletproof vest.”
Michael Connelly is an American author of detective novels and other crime fiction, notably those featuring LAPD Detective Hieronymus "Harry" Bosch and criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller. His books, which have been translated into 39 languages, have garnered him many awards. Connelly was the President of the Mystery Writers of America from 2003 to 2004.
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