Part 4 Summary

Bosch and Wish drive to Ventura County to augment the FBI's cursory check of the Charlie Company outreach program owned and operated by Colonel Gordon Scales, and tended by Vietnam combat veterans. Bosch and Wish see genuine surprise and sadness as Bosch tells Scales about Meadows' murder. When Bosch promises to tread lightly if he cooperates, Scales locates Meadows' file and master flow chart and offers to prepare a list.

Back at the Federal Building, Wish runs Scales' list and orders mug shots, while Bosch calls St. Louis for basic service biographies. Fifteen ex-cons serve in Vietnam while Meadows is there, but Art Franklin and Gene Delgado stand out. They fit Sharkey's recollection of a big man and a small one, but Sharkey cannot view the mug shots because he and his crew have disappeared.

Sharkey worries Arson and Mojo one night will...