Echo Park
“He recognized her as Rider’s former lover. They had met briefly a few years earlier when Bosch happened to see Rider at the Playboy Jazz Festival at the Hollywood Bowl.He nodded to the woman as she passed but she didn’t stop to talk. He knocked once on Rider’s door and went in. His partner looked much better than she had the day before but still not even close to a hundred percent. She was conscious and alert when Bosch entered her room and her eyes tracked him to the side of her bed. There was... no longer a tube in her mouth but the right side of her face drooped and Bosch immediately feared that she had suffered a stroke during the night.“Don’t worry,” she said in slow, slurred words. “They’ve made my neck numb and it’s working on half of my face, too.”He squeezed her hand.“Okay,” he said. “Other than that how do you feel?”“Not so good. It hurts, Harry. It really hurts.”He nodded.“Yeah.”“I have surgery on my hand in the afternoon. That’s going to hurt, too.”“But then you’ll be on the road to recovery.MoreLess
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