The Black Ice

    Published:   1993, Little Brown and Company

    Formats:     Hardback, Paperback, Audio CD,
                      Kindle

    Hardback:    ISBD-13: 978-0316153829
                      Pages: 336

    Paperback:   ISBD-13: 978-0446613446
                      Pages: 448


                           

Plot:

In this fast-paced sequel to The Black Echo, LAPD detective Harry Bosch continues to investigate the drug-trafficking underworlds of inner-city Los Angeles and the wastelands of Mexico. When he discovers the body of a fellow police officer, Cal Moore, in a sleazy hotel, Harry gets entangled in a brutal web of violence and drugs.

Narcotics officer Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with his head in several pieces and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket.

Years ago, Harry Bosch learned the first rule of the good cop: don't look for the facts, but the glue that holds them together. Now, Harry's making some very dangerous connections, starting with one dead cop and leading to a bloody string of murders that winds from Hollywood Boulevard's drug bazaar to the dusty back alleys south of the border and into the center of a complex and lethal game -- one in which Harry is the next and likeliest victim.