The Drop ***signed*** [signed] [first edition]

Physical description; 388 p. ; 24 cm. Notes; NOT price-clipped. First edition and first printing. Summary; Harry Bosch is facing the end of the line. He's been put on the DROP - Deferred Retirement Option Plan - and given three years before his retirement is enforced. Seeing the end of the mission coming, he's anxious for cases. He doesn't have to wait long. First a cold case gets a DNA hit for a rape and murder which points the finger at a 29-year-old convicted rapist who was only eight at the time of the murder. Then a city councilman's son is found dead - fallen or pushed from a hotel window - and he insists on Bosch taking the case despite the two men's history of enmity. The cases are unrelated but they twist around each other like the double helix of a DNA strand. One leads to the discovery of a killer operating in the city for as many as three decades; the other to a deep political conspiracy that reached back into the dark history of the police department. Subjects; Bosch, Harry - Fiction. Bosch, Harry (Fictitious character) - Fiction. Police - California - Los Angeles - Fiction. Crime & mystery. Fiction / Literary. Genres; Detective and mystery stories. Novel.