I had spent a dozen years as a police beat reporter and I knew that reality was quite the opposite of that. I had recently left my job as a journalist and was still struggling with the idea that as a crime novelist it would be expected that I write stories where good always vanquished evil, where the good guy caught the bad guy, where there were no loose ends - especially a jagged end like a killer left in the wind. WARNING: SPOILERS for The Poet.Īfter Robert Backus headed off into the darkness in the last pages of The Poet my full intention was for him to remain in the darkness, to never return, to always be out there like a killer ghost haunting my fictional world. Home » The Poet (1996) » The Poet Afterwordīy Michael Connelly, from the Limited Edition Release of The Poet.
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