Comment

Mar 25, 2021FirstAmendment rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
Reading the first third of the book, I was optimistic this would be a good read. I thought maybe the author was suffering from Bosch fatigue and that he'd get his mojo back by dragging out the Jack McEvoy character from long ago. In today's world it seems rare for a news reporter/writer to engage in investigative journalism of violent criminals instead of parroting press releases, and for the FBI to chase dangerous criminals instead of headlines. The novelty of a story about that kind of reporter and FBI drew me into the novel at first, like reading about ancient history or an alternate universe. But the story got weaker as it went along and I lost interest in it. Like others have written, there is a lot of detail, but not much else. Increasingly, I skimmed it. By the last third I just looked at each page to see what it covered and skipped the details for most of them- I just wanted to find out the ending and be done with it. Less and less do I look forward to the next work from this writer, which is sad. They were so good for so long.