the Narrows (2004) by Connelly Michael - Harry Bosch 10

Author:Connelly, Michael - Harry Bosch 10 [10, Connelly, Michael - Harry Bosch]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Published: 2011-04-08T01:53:31+00:00

Triangle theory?—1 point gives 3

On the newspaper story he had also circled the word circle in the Metro detective’s quote about the mileage on the rental car of one of the missing men, giving the investigators a large circle in which to look for clues as to what happened to the missing man.

I now believed that McCaleb may have circled the word because he thought it was wrong. The search zone was not a circle. It was a triangle, meaning that the miles on the rental car formed the three sides of a triangle. Point one was the airport, the origin. The renter picked up the car and drove to point two. Point two was the place where he crossed paths with the abductor. And point three was the place where the abductor took his victim. Afterward, the car was returned to point one, completing the triangle.

When McCaleb had written his notes he didn’t know about Zzyzx Road. He had one point—the airport car rental return. So he wrote, “1 point gives 3,” because he knew that if one more point on the triangle was identified, it would lead to the remaining point as well.

“One more point of the triangle means we can figure out all three,” I said out loud, translating McCaleb’s note from shorthand.

I got up and started pacing. I was jazzed and thought I was getting close. It was true that the abductor could have made any number of stops with the rental car, thereby leaving the triangle theory worthless. But if he didn’t, if he avoided distractions and single-mindedly took care of the business at hand, then the triangle theory would hold. His thoroughness might contain his weakness. That would make Zzyzx Road point three on the triangle because that would have been the last stop for the car before it was returned to the airport. And that would make point two the remaining unknown. It was the intersection. The place where predator and prey came together. Its location was not known at the moment but thanks to my silent partner I knew how to find it.

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