The Black Box

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author would like to gratefully acknowledge those who helped with the research and writing of this novel. They include detectives Rick Jackson, Tim Marcia, David Lambkin, and Richard Bengtson, as well as Dennis Wojciechowski, John Houghton, Carl Seibert, Terrill Lee Lankford, Laurie Pepper, Bill Holodnak, Henrik Bastin, Linda Connelly, Asya Muchnick, Bill Massey, Pamela Marshall, Jane Davis, Heather Rizzo, and Don Pierce.

Thank you to author Sara Bl?del for her help with Danish translations.

The music of Frank Morgan and Art Pepper was also an invaluable inspiration. Many thanks to all.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Connelly is a former police reporter for the Los Angeles Times, and is the author of the acclaimed and bestselling Harry Bosch thrillers, including his most recent, The Drop, as well as several stand-alone bestsellers, including The Poet. Michael Connelly is a former President of the Mystery Writers of America. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages and have won numerous awards. He lives with his family in Tampa, Florida.

www.michaelconnelly.com

ALSO BY MICHAEL CONNELLY

Fiction

The Black Echo

The Black Ice

The Concrete Blonde

The Last Coyote

The Poet

Trunk Music

Blood Work

Angels Flight

Void Moon

A Darkness More Than Night

City of Bones

Chasing the Dime

Lost Light

The Narrows

The Closers

The Lincoln Lawyer

Echo Park

The Overlook

The Brass Verdict

The Scarecrow

Nine Dragons

The Reversal

The Fifth Witness

The Drop

Non-Fiction

Crime Beat

E-books

Suicide Run

Angle of Investigation

Mulholland Dive

The Safe Man

Copyright

AN ORION EBOOK

First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Orion Books.

Copyright © 2012 by Hieronymus, Inc.

The moral right of Michael Connelly to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

All characters and events in this publication are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published without a similar condition, including this condition, being imposed on the subsequent purchaser.

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.

ISBN: 978 1 4091 3431 2

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