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** Harry later meets an FBI agent in the same restaurant where Pacino and De Niro met in ''{{Film/Heat}}'', which Harry himself points out.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Zero percent body fat, supposedly a quality possessed by Marty Gessler, is extremely dangerous; for women, even extremely physically fit women, 10 to 13 percent body fat is considered the "essential fat" threshold at which [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fat_percentage "physical and physiological health would be negatively affected, and below which death is certain."]]

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Zero percent body fat, supposedly a quality possessed by Marty Gessler, is extremely dangerous; for women, even extremely physically fit women, 10 to 13 percent body fat is considered the "essential fat" threshold at which [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Body_fat_percentage "physical and physiological health would be negatively affected, and below which death is certain."]

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Unfortunately for Harry, the expansion of his case led to it being reassigned to the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. Unfortunately for the case, RHD detectives Jack Dorsey and Lafayette Cross got nothing. Unfortunately for both the case and for Dorsey and Cross, investigation came to a halt when an armed robbery at a bar leaves Dorsey dead and Cross a quadriplegic. Now after four years, private investigator Harry Bosch is out to solve the Angella Benton murder once and for all.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: We are told that Gessler had 0% body fat. This may be theoretically possible, but Gessler would not have been likely to achieve it on anything like a normal human regimen of food and work. The kind of people who get near 0% body fat are professional body builders on specific diets, not just workout enthusiasts.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: We are told that Gessler's had 0% body fat. This may be theoretically possible, but Gessler would not have been likely to achieve it on anything like a normal human regimen of food and work. The kind of people who get near 0% body fat are professional body builders on specific diets, not just workout enthusiasts.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Gessler's "charts ... showed she had zero per cent body fat." This may be theoretically possible, but Gessler would have been in intensive care, not functioning regularly.

* ShoutOut: When Cross challenges one of the FBI thugs at his house for ID, the FBI thug shoots back with the "We don't need no ''steenking'' badges" line from ''Film/TreasureOfTheSierraMadre''.

* FBIAgent: Harry Bosch has run afoul of the FBI many times, but in this one he's actually arrested by the feds, when his investigation into the Angella Benton murder starts leading into a terrorism angle.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A criminal defense attorney tries to hire the unemployed Harry Bosch as a private investigator and Bosch refuses because he doesn't feel comfortable with the idea. In ''Literature/{{The Crossing|2015}}'', he'll investigate a murder on behalf of the accused's lawyer.

* ShotInTheAss: In the backstory. Not played for laughs.

Unfortunately for Harry, the expansion of his case led to it being reassigned to the elite Robbery-Homicide Division. Unfortunately for the case, detectives Jack Dorsey and Lafayette Cross, they got nothing. Unfortunately for both the case and for Dorsey and Cross, investigation came to a halt when an armed robbery at a bar leaves Dorsey dead and Cross a quadriplegic. Now after four years, private investigator Harry Bosch is out to solve the Angella Benton murder once and for all.

It is set after Bosch retires from the LAPD and becomes a private investigator, and in a break from the series' previous format, Bosch narrates in first-person.

** It is mentioned that the events of Connelly's non-Bosch novel ''Literature/VoidMoon'' were made into a movie--or rather, they would have been made into a movie if a bloody armed robbery hadn't led to production being cancelled.

** It is mentioned that the events of Connelly's non-Bosch novel ''Literature/VoidMoon'' were made into a movie.

* ContinuityNod: It is mentioned that the events of Connelly's non-Bosch novel ''Literature/VoidMoon'' were made into a movie.

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