The Wrong Side of Goodbye
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4.5 • 347 Ratings
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Publisher Description
'What do you want me to do?' Bosch asked again.
'I want you to find someone for me,' Vance said. 'Someone who might not have ever existed.'
Harry Bosch is working as a part-time detective in the town of San Fernando outside of Los Angeles, when he gets the invitation to meet with the ageing aviation billionaire Whitney Vance. When he was eighteen Vance had a relationship with a Mexican girl called Vibiana Duarte, but soon after becoming pregnant she disappeared.
Now, as he reaches the end of his life, Vance wants to know what happened to Vibiana and whether there is an heir to his vast fortune. And Bosch is the only person he trusts to undertake the assignment.
Harry's aware that with such sums of money involved, this could be a dangerous undertaking - not just for himself, but for the person he's looking for - but as he begins to uncover Vibiana's tragic story, and finds uncanny links to his own past, he knows he cannot rest until he finds the truth.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Michael Connelly is, hands down, one of the best crime authors in the business. Harry Bosch has been pushed out of the Los Angeles police force, but he’s not going quietly into the night. In this suspenseful story, Connelly’s canny hero takes on a case involving an old billionaire looking for information about his long-lost (and only) love. The writing is crisp and compelling—we raced through chapter after chapter, cheering Bosch along every step of the way.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Bestseller Connolly's canny detective, Harry Bosch, remains a compelling lead, but even longtime fans may feel that his creator gives him a few too many fortuitous breaks in his 21st outing (after 2015's The Crossing). Bosch's long career with the LAPD is a thing of the past, and he now divides his time between PI work and pro bono service as a reserve police officer for the city of San Fernando. He gets involved in an apparently impossible case for an extremely wealthy client, Whitney Vance, who pays Bosch $10,000 just to agree to a meeting. The 85-year-old Vance asks Bosch to find out, in complete secrecy, what became of the woman Vance impregnated 65 years earlier and who disappeared from his life almost immediately afterward. The billionaire, who believes he is nearing his end, hopes the investigator can ascertain whether he has a living heir. Though the trail is beyond cold, Bosch lucks into a solid lead. The multiple contrivances significantly diminish the plot.
Customer Reviews
A consistently good read
Pace builds well with some interesting new twists and turns along the way. A good holiday read.
Great Read
Another awesome book I so enjoyed reading!
Bom bom you couldn’t make it up
It was the post Vietnam war era, the world’s youth had a unstoppable thirst for a new way of life, a search for spiritual achievement, it was the peace and love movement,
Thousands of Australian and European hit the road toward the subcontinent opening their inner self ,with the help
Of marijuana and LSD,
Mark started his trip by boat from Sydney to London then he didn’t hit the road he bashed it
If you want to bring back the memories , or discover this inconceivable way of life by today standard, you couldn’t Make it up !
Franco Cervo