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The Narrows

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The Narrows	comment	The Narrows is a 2004 mystery novel by Michael Connelly.It is a sequel to previous Connelly novel The Poet. Serial killer The Poet, whose death was suspected but not confirmed, turns out to be still alive and active. And what's more, the Poet has sent a message to FBI agent Rachel Walling, who tried but failed to catch him. Now the Poet is back and has ensnared Walling in a new game of cat-and-mouse.Meanwhile, former LAPD detective Harry Bosch (Connelly's most frequent protagonist), now a PI, is investigating the death of his old friend and former FBI agent Terry McCaleb. McCaleb, a heart transplant recipient (and the protagonist of Connelly novels Blood Work and A Darkness More Than Night), died when his body rejected the donor heart. The authorities have written it off as natural causes, but his widow suspects foul play. Bosch starts to suspect foul play as well when his investigation reveals that McCaleb had a stalker—who turns out to be The Poet.
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The Narrows / int_18d15922	comment	Title Drop: The storm drains that Bosch and the Poet wind up falling into are called "the Narrows".
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The Narrows / int_19102429	type	Twist Ending
The Narrows / int_19102429	comment	Twist Ending: One you'll get a heads-up to if you pay attention to Backus' dialogue: He didn't kill Terry.
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The Narrows / int_2f6f1a06	type	"Shut Up!" Gunshot
The Narrows / int_2f6f1a06	comment	"Shut Up!" Gunshot: Rachel does this when two whorehouse bouncers are about to mangle Harry Bosch.
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The Narrows / int_30725d31	type	Medication Tampering
The Narrows / int_30725d31	comment	Medication Tampering: As an elaborate form of suicide. Terry McCaleb tampered with his own heart medication instead of submitting to a second heart transplant.
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The Narrows / int_39ed1c8a	type	Conspiracy Theorist
The Narrows / int_39ed1c8a	comment	Conspiracy Theorist: Bosch pretends to be one to encourage a reporter to dismiss his claim that McCaleb was murdered rather than start digging into it.
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The Narrows / int_47dc2eeb	type	Everyone Owns a Mac
The Narrows / int_47dc2eeb	comment	Everyone Owns a Mac: "I looked down at the desk and saw the white laptop with the recognizable symbol of an apple with a bite out of it in silouhette."
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The Narrows / int_52989fee	type	Narrator
The Narrows / int_52989fee	comment	Narrator: Harry's part of the narrative is told by Harry in first person singular. Of the dozens of Bosch novels that Connelly has written, this and Lost Light are the only two which use Harry as a narrator.
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The Narrows / int_5798bfbf	type	Reassigned to Antarctica
The Narrows / int_5798bfbf	comment	Reassigned to Antarctica: The book starts with Rachel Walling having been assigned to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation as punishment for having an affair with a reporter in The Poet.
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The Narrows / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
The Narrows / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: When Harry accuses The Poet of killing his friend, The Poet doesn't know who the friend is because he's "been kind of busy". Subverted because The Poet didn't kill Terry McCaleb.
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The Narrows / int_7301ae04	type	Serial Killer
The Narrows / int_7301ae04	comment	Serial Killer: The Poet is up to his old tricks, although this time, he's doing it in part to settle an old score with Rachel Walling.
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The Narrows / int_81bdc398	type	He's Back!
The Narrows / int_81bdc398	comment	He's Back!: Villainous version in-universe: the call Rachel gets at the beginning of the book.
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The Narrows / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Narrows / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: Terry McCaleb, where one of the mysteries is how he died. Bosch uses McCaleb's notes for his investigation, and calls Terry his "silent partner".
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The Narrows / int_928ca2cc	type	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
The Narrows / int_928ca2cc	comment	You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: The backstory reveals that after Bob Backus got a Back-Alley Doctor to perform plastic surgery on his face, he murdered the doctor and his wife.
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The Narrows / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Narrows / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Buddy complains about his representation in the movie, and after confirming that he got paid for his story, Harry tells him to "put your money in the bank and forget about the rest." This is not idle advice, but the voice of experience. Long ago, Harry got a big payday after having one of his cases made into a movie: it's how he can afford his house in Hollywood Hills. While visiting his ex-wife and daughter in Las Vegas, Harry lives in a short-term apartment next to a woman who is strongly implied to be Cassie Black, heroine of previous Connelly novel Void Moon. Later Connelly novel The Closers confirms that this is in fact the case. Bosch mentions taking saxophone lessons from an old jazz man that he met during a case. That's the plot of short story "Christmas Even" and an element of previous book Lost Light. It's established in Blood Work that McCaleb was part of the Poet investigation. In this book the Poet is revealed to have been stalking him.
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The Narrows / int_ae475b01	type	A True Story in My Universe
The Narrows / int_ae475b01	comment	A True Story in My Universe: In this novel, The Poet is a true-crime story and Blood Work is a true-crime film.
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The Narrows / int_b01abe4f	type	Catchphrase
The Narrows / int_b01abe4f	comment	Catchphrase: Lampshaded when Kiz Rider quotes "Everybody counts or nobody counts" back at Harry. Followed very shortly by Harry considering his mission.
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The Narrows / int_b1f4c5bb	type	Enhance Button
The Narrows / int_b1f4c5bb	comment	Enhance Button: Averted. Bosch, who for all his skill as an investigator is not handy with computers or electronics, asks for a digital photo to be enhanced and is told that it's impossible.
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The Narrows / int_b3dbc942	type	Sequel
The Narrows / int_b3dbc942	comment	Sequel: To The Poet and somewhat to A Darkness More Than Night. While all of Connelly's books are in the same universe, this is his only sequel to a prior novel, the only one where a villain returns.
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The Narrows / int_bd50ec63	type	Battle in the Rain
The Narrows / int_bd50ec63	comment	Battle in the Rain: Climaxes when Harry Bosch fights The Poet in a pouring rainstorm.
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The Narrows / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Narrows / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: To The Film of the Book of Blood Work. Clint Eastwood is said to have attended Terry McCaleb's funeral. Terry's old friend Buddy appears in this novel and complains about how he was portrayed in the Blood Work movie.
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The Narrows / int_dffd6a64	type	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex
The Narrows / int_dffd6a64	comment	Glad-to-Be-Alive Sex: Harry and Rachel do some mattress dancing the day after they are nearly blown up by Backus's booby trap bomb.
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The Narrows / int_e3109dae	type	Switching P.O.V.
The Narrows / int_e3109dae	comment	Switching P.O.V.: Switches back and forth between Bosch narrating his own story in first person, and a third person narrative following Rachel Walling and the Poet.
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The Narrows / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Narrows / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: While in Vegas, Harry met a card counter who prefers to be called an "advantage player".
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The Narrows / int_e6f92599	type	Suicide, Not Accident
The Narrows / int_e6f92599	comment	Suicide, Not Accident: Terry McCaleb's death was written off as a heart attack, but Bosch suspects that the Poet killed him. Instead, Bosch eventually figures out that McCaleb was facing another heart transplant surgery due to his body rejecting the donor heart. But another surgery would have bankrupted his family, so McCaleb tampered with his own pills, which brought about heart failure and death.
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The Narrows / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
The Narrows / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: A subtle hint to the Twist Ending. Harry realizes that Medication Tampering isn't the Poet's style.
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The Narrows / int_efbb5f9c	type	Down L.A. Drain
The Narrows / int_efbb5f9c	comment	Down L.A. Drain: The setting for the climax. The Poet is swept away and drowned in a flooded LA storm drain.
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The Narrows / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
The Narrows / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: Not wanting to tell his ex-wife why he no longer plays the saxophone, Bosch says his teacher wanted him to "switch from alto to tenor - as in ten or fifteen miles away from him". The joke is, by Bosch's own admission, lame.
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The Narrows / int_fcd46998	type	Red-Light District
The Narrows / int_fcd46998	comment	Red Light District: Clear, Nevada, is a Pitiful/Hostile version. The fact that many of the men who go there take measures to conceal their journey make it the perfect hunting ground for the Poet, at least until his body count gets high enough for the Las Vegas Metro Police to start making connections between the men who have vanished without a trace over the course of a couple of years, and Terry McCaleb to figure out the common denominator. The Poet also previously operated in the RLD in Amsterdam for the same reasons.
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