The Last Coyote

Author: Michael Connelly

Genre: Crime Novel

Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

Publication Date: June, 1995

The Last Coyote is the fourth in a series of Heironymus "Harry" Bosch books. Harry Bosch is a Los Angeles detective put on "stress" leave due to an incident at work. He is ordered to go through therapy before he can return to work.

While in therapy the therapist asks Harry to disclose his mission in life. Bosch reveals that his mission is to find the murderer of his mother. She had been a prostitute and had been strangled when Harry was a child. The case is thirty years old.

Harry Bosch is a man who cannot brook inactivity so he embraces this mission while on leave from the police force. His investigation takes him as far as Florida and results in the death of his superior officer when Harry starts uncovering information on his mother's death. This book has plenty of twists and turns as it leads you to the conclusion. Harry Bosch is portrayed as a relentless seeker of the truth and is the example you want to see in every police officer when pursuing a criminal.

I've read most of the "Harry Bosch" series and this one is one of my favorites. If crime drama is generally something you like to read I believe you'll find this book an excellent one to read.

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Master Of The Game

Author: Sidney Sheldon

Genre: Thriller

Publisher: Warner Books

Publication Date: 1982

Master Of The Game is a book that will keep you asking, "What's next?" The story starts out with the ninetieth birthday party of Kate Blackwell, an astute, as well as, conniving business women. She has her family around her and this story is told in flashback.

The story then moves back one hundred years with the arrival of Kate's father, Jamie MacGregor in South Africa. Jamie arrives there from Scotland to seek his fortune. He encounters a ruthless businessman and strikes a deal to share in any discovery of diamonds. The businessman outfits him for his quest to find diamonds and when Jamie returns with a huge diamond field find he is promptly defrauded of his share, beaten, and left for dead.

But he survives. And he is unrecognizable due to his injuries.

Jamie MacGregor then steals back from the businessman and makes it a mission to put the businessman out of business. He succeeds with a variety of plots and twists. He then becomes one of the richest businessmen in South Africa, dies suddenly, and the business is left in the hands of Kate Blackwell, his daughter.

Kate runs the company with an obsession that rivals her father as well. The plots and twists are never ending in this book and you may find it hard to put down. While this book was written 28 years ago I've found myself rereading it many times.