Only the money was real. 4 years ago, LAPD detective Harry Bosch was on a movie set asking questions about the murder of a young production assistant while an armored car arrived with 2 million dollars cash for use in a high scene. And a life imitates art firestorm, a gang of mass men converged on the delivery and Rob the car with guns place. Bosch got off a shot that struck one of the robbers pastor Vance but away but the money was never recovered. And the young woman's murder was in the stack of Unsolved cases oshkrit him the night he left at lapd. Now Bosch moves full bore back into that case, determined to find Justice for the young woman. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear into the guilty, he learns a fresh that brutally indifferent the world can be. But something draws him on, past humiliation and harassment. It's not just the dead woman that has no discernible link to the role to the robbery. Nor is it has sympathy for the cops who took over the case, one of them killed on duty and the other Paralyzed by a bullet in the same attack. With every conversation and every thread of evidence, Bosch senses a larger presence of an organization