On Christmas night, the corpse of Sergeant Moore is found in a cheap motel room—he headed the narcotics unit of the Los Angeles police department.
All the evidence found at the crime scene points to suicide.
But experienced detective Harry Bosch, who is assigned to investigate the circumstances of Moore’s death, is sure— the sergeant died a violent death.
And his murder is only one link in a long chain of crimes stretching from the Hollywood Boulevard of Los Angeles to the gangs controlling drug smuggling through the Mexican border…