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The art of sports writing always amazed me. Nine out of ten times the reader already knows the outcome of your story before reading it. They know who won, they probably even watched the game. But they read about it anyway and you have to find a way to write with an insight and angle that makes it seem fresh.
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Little pieces of grace were everywhere if you looked.
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Everybody seemed to be on a cell phone. The marble floor and high ceiling took all of the voices and multiplied them into a fierce cacophony of white noise.
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Michael Connelly |
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situ,
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Michael Connelly |
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found out
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Michael Connelly |
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Everybody is looking for redemption. For something.
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Michael Connelly |
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We were parked in the lot of a strip shopping center on Tustin Boulevard in the city of Orange. Book Carnival was a small business between a rock shop and what looked like a vacant slot. Three doors down was a gun store.
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Michael Connelly |
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I couldn't become bogged down with it. I had to get
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Michael Connelly |
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He believed that war brought out the true character in a person, good or bad. He had no sympathy for Banks or the others.
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Michael Connelly |
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Michael Connelly |
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closers. So let's close this one out." Bosch and Rider stood"
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Michael Connelly |
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When you take hope away it leaves a void. Some people fill that up with anger and with violence. To simply blame it on the media is wrong. It's much deeper than that.
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Michael Connelly |
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You can't know people that well, man. Everybody's got a private room.
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Michael Connelly |
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Our children are our hearts.
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Michael Connelly |
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The best and fastest way to break a conspiracy was to identify the weakeast link in the chain and find a way to exploit it. When one link was broken, the chain would come loose.
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Michael Connelly |
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Out of the blue and into the black. That's what he said going on a tunnel mission was. We called it the black echo.
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Michael Connelly |
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executive assistant. "Mrs. Albrecht, how are you today?" "Very well. I just got here and thought maybe I had missed you." "Nope. I just got here too." "Come in, please." The house had a two-story entry area"
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Michael Connelly |
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It is an amazing thing to be able to hold everything that is important to you in one arm.
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Michael Connelly |
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I was simply in love with my daughter and how she viewed her world. The literal way in which she took it all in and took it on. I knew it wouldn't last long and so I treasured every moment I saw and heard of it.
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Michael Connelly |
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believe me or care, then I don't have a chance.
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Michael Connelly |
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The alley was like most any other alley in a city where the infrastructure was crumbling, in a state where the infrastructure was crumbling.
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I found out who I was.
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Michael Connelly |
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She had on a large blond wig, bright pink lipstick and enough makeup on her cheeks to frost a cupcake or
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Michael Connelly |
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Sometimes hot sauce was the only way I knew I was still alive.
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Michael Connelly |
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Out of the blue and into the black is what they called going into a tunnel. Each one was a black echo. Nothing but death in there. But, still, they went. Bosch
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Michael Connelly |
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Sonny
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Through political opportunism and ineptitude, the city had allowed the [police] department to languish for years as an understaffed and underequipped paramilitary organization. Infected with political bacteria itself, the department was top-heavy with managers while the ranks below were so thin that the dog soldiers on the street rarely had the time or inclination to step out of their protective machines, their cars, to meet the people they..
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Someone's coming." Terry McCaleb looked at his wife and then followed her eyes down to the winding road below. He could see the golf cart making its way up the steep and winding road to the"
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It's all a cesspool, man. Doesn't matter if you're on the bottom or the top. You're still swimming in shit.
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In a courtroom I can sell ice to Eskimos
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we hit the tunnel that marks the end of the freeway and dumps out onto the Pacific Coast Highway. I cracked the window open. I always loved the feeling I got when I'd swing out of the tunnel and see and smell the ocean. We followed the PCH as it took us north to Malibu. It was hard for me to go back to the computer when I had the blue Pacific right outside my office window. I finally gave up, lowered the window all the way, and just rode.
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Michael Connelly |
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I crawled up the embankment to Earl. I knew right away that he was dead.
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Michael Connelly |
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The coroner herself, Jayalalithaa Panneerselvam, was on scene.
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Michael Connelly |
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I read once in a book that it doesn't matter if you're lying beneath a marble tombstone on a hill or at the bottom of an oil sump, when you're dead you're dead.
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All his life he believed he was slumming toward something good. That there was meaning. In the youth shelter, the foster homes, the Army and Vietnam, and now the department, he always carried the feeling that he was struggling toward some kind of resolution and knowledge of purpose. That there was something good in him or about him. It was the waiting that was so hard. The waiting often left a hollow feeling in his soul. And he believed peo..
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parents see their children not only as they are but as they hope they will be in the future. Happy, fulfilled, not afraid.
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decades. Bosch pulled up his phone's search app and typed in USC EVK to see what might come up. It got a hit right away. The EVK was still operating on the campus and was located in the Birnkrant Residential College on 34th Street. He pulled the address up on his maps app and was soon looking at an overview of the sprawling campus
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Christian Scott.
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She was pretty pissed off, in fact, that she was under arrest and not going to be able to get her next fix in jail." "You don't sound like you have a lot of sympathy." "I do to an extent. I've dealt with addicts all my life, including in my own family, and it's hard to balance sympathy for them with the damage they do to their families and others."
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my camera." He"
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When you walked the dog, did you see anything unusual on the street?" Ballard asked the old woman. "Anybody out of place?" "No, nothing unusual," Lantana said. "Is there any construction on the street? Workers hanging around?"
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John Brooks.' Immediately, I thought of the odds. First of just surviving in such a place, next of surviving and then becoming a cop. 'Vertical ghettos, each one of them. Me and John used to say it was the only time when you had to take the elevator up when you were going to hell.' I just nodded. This was out of my realm completely. 'And that's only if the elevators were working,' he added. I realized that I never considered that Brooks mig..
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Michael Connelly |
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That's extortion," Cerrone said. "No, asshole, that's justice."
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Michael Connelly |
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her stories and a once-a-week
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