the Overlook (2007) by Connelly Michael - Harry Bosch 13

Author:Connelly, Michael - Harry Bosch 13 [13, Connelly, Michael - Harry Bosch]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-04-08T01:53:35+00:00

TWELVE

ON THE WAY BACK DOWN the hill to the freeway Ferras was silent and Bosch knew he had to be thinking about the jeopardy his young and promising career had been placed in because of his old and reckless partner's actions. Bosch tried to draw him out of it.

"Well, that was a bust," he said. "I got nada. You find anything in the office?"

"Nothing much. I showed you, the computer was gone."

There was a sullen tone in his voice.

"What about the desk?" Bosch asked.

"It was mostly empty. One drawer had tax returns and stuff like that. Another had a copy of a trust. Their house, an investment property in Laguna, insurance policies, everything like that is held in a trust. Their passports were in the desk, too."

"Got it. How much the guy make last year?"

"A quarter million take-home. He also owns fifty-one percent of the company."

"The wife make anything?"

"No income. Doesn't work."

Bosch grew quiet as he contemplated things. When they got down off the mountain he decided not to get on the freeway. Instead he took Cahuenga to Franklin and turned east. Ferras was looking out the passenger-side window but quickly noticed the detour.

"What's going on? I thought we were going downtown."

"We're going to Los Feliz first."

"What's in Los Feliz?"

"The Donut Hole on Vermont."

"We just ate an hour ago."

Bosch checked his watch. It was almost eight and he hoped he wasn't too late.

"I'm not going for the doughnuts."

Ferras cursed and shook his head.

"You're going to talk to the Man?" he asked. "Are you kidding?"

"Unless I missed him already. If you're worried about it you can stay in the car."

"You're jumping about five links in the chain, you know. Lieutenant Gandle is going to have our asses for this."

"He'll have my ass. You stay in the car. It will be like you weren't even there."

"Except what one partner does, the other always gets equal blame for. You know that. That's how it works. That's why they call them partners, Harry."

"Look, I'll take care of it. There's no time to go through proper channels. The chief should know what is what and I'm going to tell him. He'll probably end up thanking us for the heads-up."

"Yeah, well, Lieutenant Gandle won't be thanking us."

"Then I'll deal with him, too."

The partners drove the rest of the way in silence.

The Los Angeles Police Department was one of the most insular bureaucracies in the world. It had survived for more than a century by rarely looking outward for ideas, answers or leaders. A few years earlier, when the city council decided that after years of scandal and community upset it required leadership from outside the department, it was only the second time in the LAPD's long history that the position of chief of police was not filled by promoting from within the ranks. Subsequently, the outsider who was brought in to run the show was viewed with tremendous curiosity, not to mention skepticism. His movements and habits were documented and the data was all dumped into

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