![]() “That is quantifiable,” he writes, “but the money, forget it. Almost as many addicts are dead from this scourge as soldiers who died in the Vietnam War. Bosch goes underground for DEA in this case, prompted by a murder in a pharmacy that stirred his moral drive.Ĭonnelly’s description of how criminals manipulate this modern social disaster is frightening. Two Kinds of Truth also describes the awful epidemic of oxycodone and the schemes criminals have devised to exploit addicts. And there isn’t a lot of that out in the world anymore.”) (That perspective propels one of the episodes in this book. They bring in key characters from prior books and historic references to other cases and characters in Bosch’s history, particularly his deceased mother, whose life taught Bosch fundamental lessons about cruelty and human weakness. As his stories all do, Two Kinds of Truth includes separate but interwoven stories, a cold case, an old case, and an undercover drama. ![]() ![]() Two Kinds of Truthis one of Connelly’s best. “He…considered himself to be like that man at the counter in Hopper’s Nighthawks.”Īlong with his companion series involving Bosch’s half-brother (“his brutha from another mutha”), trial lawyer Micky Haller ( The Lincoln Lawyer), Connelly’s books have sold 60 million copies, and “Bosch” is now in its third season on television.Īll brand books include weaker and stronger selections. Michael Connelly fans know that this quoted truth defines the work of Harry Bosch, the dark hero of 20 Connelly novels. ![]()
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