Black Tunnel, White Magic

Author: Matthew McGough and Rick Jackson

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Detective Rick Jackson, a decorated LAPD detective and key inspiration for Harry Bosch, delivers a shocking and immersive look into the one case he couldn't let go

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Detective Rick Jackson, a decorated LAPD detective and key inspiration for Harry Bosch, delivers a shocking and immersive look into the one case he couldn't let go

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A TRUE STORY OF MURDER AND BETRAYAL IN LOS ANGELES FROM LAPD DETECTIVE RICK JACKSON, THE INSIPERATION FOR HARRY BOSCH, WITH AN INTRODUCTION FROM MICHAEL CONNELLY

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Lifelong LAPD Homicide Detective Rick Jackson - the inspiration behind Michael Connelly's bestselling Harry Bosch - takes us behind the scenes of the murder case he could never let go.

In June 1990, Ronald Baker was found repeatedly stabbed to death in a tunnel near Spahn Ranch, where the Manson Family once lived. Jackson and his partner, Frank Garcia, were assigned the case.

But who would have motive to kill a straight-A UCLA student? What about the proximity to the Manson ranch? Or the pentagram pendant around Ron's neck? Suspicions soon fall on Baker's two roommates, one Black, and one white...

As the case unfolds over the years it becomes a sprawling tale of betrayal, grief and redemption - as well as a portrait of Los Angeles on the brink, and America's reckoning with racial injustice in the wake of Rodney King.

Black Tunnel White Magic is a true-crime odyssey into the dark beating heart of a murder investigation, and shows the true cost of justice for the detectives themselves...

About the Author

Rick Jackson had a 34-year career with the Los Angeles Police Department, before retiring in 2013. He is a known homicide expert, as well as a highly-regarded detective with extensive expertise and success in the field of "cold case" homicides. Rick has been a consultant and technical advisor for New York Times and Sunday Times #1 bestselling crime fiction author Michael Connelly. This ongoing 16-year relationship has included all of Connelly's novels, the "Bosch" television series, and numerous other film and TV scripts.

Matthew McGough is an investigative journalist, former lawyer, and the author of two books- The Lazarus Files: A Cold Case Investigation (Henry Holt, 2019), which Anonymous Content optioned for development as a limited TV series, and Bat Boy: Coming of Age with the New York Yankees (Doubleday, 2005), which served as the basis for the CBS series "Clubhouse." He has also written for television and was a writer and legal consultant for NBC's "Law & Order. "