The Overlook
A doctor is found executed on a lonely overlook above the Mulholland Dam, two bullets in the back of his head. He was a medical physicist with access to radioactive cesium — and a large quantity of it has just gone missing. For Harry Bosch, newly assigned to the elite Homicide Special squad, a single murder becomes the loose thread of something far larger and far more frightening.
As the theft raises the specter of a dirty bomb, the FBI moves to seize the case, and Bosch finds himself sidelined and sparring with Agent Rachel Walling, with whom his history is complicated. Convinced the murder itself holds the key, he works against the clock and against his own government's assumptions, chasing a killer through a single tense night in Los Angeles.
Originally written as a newspaper serial, the thirteenth Harry Bosch novel is the leanest, fastest entry in the series — a tightly wound thriller that unfolds almost in real time.
Newly in the Homicide Special squad, Bosch works a murder that spirals into a national-security crisis.
FBI agent with a complicated romantic history with Bosch, now on the opposing side of a jurisdictional fight.
Bosch's new, younger partner on the Homicide Special team.
The murdered medical physicist whose access to radioactive material triggers the crisis.