The Fifth Witness - Michael Connelly [188]
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Part Two: The Hypothesis of Innocence
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Part Three: Boléro
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
Chapter Thirty-two
Chapter Thirty-three
Chapter Thirty-four
Chapter Thirty-five
Chapter Thirty-six
Chapter Thirty-seven
Chapter Thirty-eight
Part Four: The Fifth Witness
Chapter Thirty-nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-one
Chapter Forty-two
Chapter Forty-three
Chapter Forty-four
Chapter Forty-five
Chapter Forty-six
Chapter Forty-seven
Chapter Forty-eight
Chapter Forty-nine
Chapter Fifty
Chapter Fifty-one
Chapter Fifty-two
Part Five: The Hypocrisy of Innocence
Chapter Fifty-three
Chapter Fifty-four
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Also by Michael Connelly
Copyright
About the Author
Michael Connelly is a former journalist and the author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers The Reversal, The Scarecrow, The Brass Verdict and The Lincoln Lawyer, the bestselling series of Harry Bosch novels, and the bestselling novels Chasing the Dime, Void Moon, Blood Work, and The Poet. Crime Beat, a collection of his journalism, was also a New York Times bestseller. He spends his time in California and Florida.
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
Nonfiction
Crime Beat
Copyright
Copyright © 2011 by Hieronymus, Inc.
Excerpt from The Drop copyright © 2011 by Hieronymus, Inc.
All rights reserved. Except as permitted under the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976, no part of this publication may be reproduced, distributed, or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
Little, Brown and Company
Hachette Book Group
237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017
Visit our website at www.HachetteBookGroup.com.
www.twitter.com/littlebrown.
First eBook Edition: April 2011
Little, Brown and Company is a division of Hachette Book Group, Inc. The Little, Brown name and logo are trademarks of Hachette Book Group, Inc.
The characters and events in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
The publisher is not responsible for websites (or their content) that are not owned by the publisher.
Lyrics from “Poor Man’s Shangri-La,” copyright © 2005 by Ry Cooder, Hi-Lo Shag Music (BMI), from the album Ch vez Ravine. Used by permission of Ry Cooder.
ISBN: 978-0-316-06938-0
Table of Contents
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
PART FIVE
Unnamed
Table of Contents
A Preview of The Drop
Copyright Page
The Magic Words
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
The Hypothesis of Innocence
Eleven
Twelve
Thirteen
Fourteen
Fifteen
Sixteen
Seventeen
Boléro
Eighteen
Nineteen
Twenty
Twenty-one
Twenty-two
Twenty-three
Twenty-four
Twenty-five
Twenty-six
Twenty-seven
Twenty-eight
Twenty-nine
Thirty
Thirty-one
Thirty-two
Thirty-three
Thirty-four
Thirty-five
Thirty-six
Thirty-seven
Thirty-eight
The Fifth Witness
Thirty-nine
Forty
Forty-one
Forty-two
Table of Contents
PART ONE
PART TWO
PART THREE
PART FOUR
PART FIVE
Unnamed
Table of Contents
A Preview of The Drop
Copyright