Characters in The Overlook

Harry Bosch

Newly in the Homicide Special squad, Bosch works a murder that spirals into a national-security crisis.

Also in The Black Echo, The Black Ice, The Concrete Blonde, The Last Coyote, Trunk Music, Angels Flight, A Darkness More Than Night, City of Bones, Lost Light, The Narrows

Rachel Walling

FBI agent with a complicated romantic history with Bosch, now on the opposing side of a jurisdictional fight.

Also in The Narrows, Echo Park, The Black Box, The Burning Room, The Reversal

Alicia Kent

The wife of the murdered medical physicist, whose circumstances are bound up with the case.

Ignacio Ferras

Bosch's new, younger partner on the Homicide Special team.

Also in Nine Dragons

Jack Brenner

The FBI agent leading the federal side of the investigation, focused on the terror threat.

Stanley Kent

A medical physicist found shot on the overlook above Mulholland Dam, whose access to radioactive cesium sets the plot off.

Jerry Edgar

Also in The Black Ice, The Last Coyote, Angels Flight, City of Bones, The Closers, Echo Park, The Black Box, Two Kinds of Truth, The Harry Bosch novels, The Harry Bosch Novels, Volume 2

Jesse Mitford

Ed Romo

Ramin Samir

Don Hadley

Lieutenant Gandle

Digoberto Gonzalves

Joe Felton

Momar Azim Nassar

KYLE REID

Barry Kelber

Muhammad El-Fayed

Richard Romo

Ronald Lundy

Dr. Garner

Buzz Yates

Burstin

Rufus Coleman

Also in The Black Box

Hank Zinn

Eddie Vaughn

Anneke Jespersen

Walter Regis

Clifford Maxwell

An FBI agent working the cesium case alongside Rachel Walling and Jack Brenner.