Quotes from Michael Connelly

Encontraré la salida.

a tunnel entrance.

this goes forward it's going to get

He could feel her tiny heart beating. It seemed quick and desperate, like a whispered prayer.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' Tom Jefferson rescinded those laws as soon as he became president.

Bosch turned off the screen and sat there thinking about how the truth was always manipulated by those in power. It bothered him to know things that shouldn't be kept secret.

Department administrators decided that it would be for the good of all involved to separate Ballard and Lieutenant Robert Olivas. He stayed put in RHD and Ballard was moved out, the message to her clear. Olivas got by unscathed, while she went from an elite unit to a posting no one ever applied or volunteered for, a slot normally reserved for the department's freaks and fuckups.

called Hector Villabona and confirmed that

She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or

Everybody lies. Cops lie. Lawyers lie. Witnesses lie. The victims lie. A trial is a contest of lies. And everybody in the courtroom knows this. The judge knows this. Even the jury knows this. They come into the building knowing they will be lied to. They take their seats in the box and agree to be lied to.

keep things moving but she was missing in action. He didn't want to call her cell in case she was still in session with Dr. Hinojos

There's nothing you can do about the past, Patrick. Except keep it there.

studying the rim for marks left by the weapon that had fired

Opparizio is a perfect target: rich, arrogant and Republican.

She was on a roll and everybody knew it. It was what cops and prosecutors called being in the tube. It was a surfing reference. It meant they had ridden the case into the water tunnel where everything was going smoothly and perfectly and was surrounding them in glorious balance.

The sun and salt air worked deeply on her muscles and eased the tension and pain. It

was squeezed between two large Special Ops officers in the back of a black SUV. It was seven a.m.

felt confusion ambush him. He didn't know

anticipated doing, anyway. But for now he was

Joseph O'Leary, 55, of Berwyn, PA

The next ten minutes took ten hours.

Neither spoke, neither made a sound except for the deep exhalation of breath. First he felt her hips shudder, and soon after he desperately reached up and pulled her down into an embrace as his own body created that one moment that takes all other moments away—all fear, all sadness—and leaves just joy. Just hope. Sometimes love.

Along the way he thought about what he'd said to Lourdes about cop blood. It was something he truly believed. He knew that in his internal universe, there was a mission etched in a secret language, like drawings on the wall of an ancient cave, that gave him his direction and meaning. It could not be altered and it would always be there to guide him to the right path.

She had played the part in an episode of a television show called Bosch, which Ballard knew was based on the exploits of a now-retired LAPD detective who had formerly worked at RHD and the Hollywood detective bureau. The production occasionally filmed at the station and had underwritten the division's last Christmas party at the W Hotel.