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     It was a Friday  morning and the smart people had already taken off for the weekend.  This made traffic into downtown a breeze and Harry Bosch got to the courthouse early.  Rather than wait for Mickey Haller on the front steps, where they had agreed to meet, he decided to look for his lawyer inside the monolithic structure that covered half a block of space nineteen floors in the air.  But the search for Haller would not be as difficult as the size of the building suggested.  After clearing the lobby metal detector - a new experience for him - Bosch took an elevator up to fifteen and started checking courtrooms and using the stairs to work his way down.  Most of the courtrooms assigned to criminal cases were on floors nine through fifteen.  Bosch know this because of the time he'd spent in those courtrooms over the past thirty years.

-Michael Connelly,   The Crossing