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There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo--a smooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed ...

It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio boss who may have been involved in some very strange and dangerous filmmaking. Hilarious at times, heartbreaking at others, this book was likened by t...

Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge against men. These unlikely partners are assigned the strange case of a stolen show dog being held for ransom. In this bittersweet tale that the Los Angeles Times called "terrifying and romantic, " the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. Cosmopolitan called it "fast, colo...

Ex Longshoreman and taxi driver Dink Babich tries to protect a dancer after she witnesses something that links her to the murder of 13 people.

Ein Raubüberfall auf einen Juwelier macht der Polizei von Los Angeles zu schaffen. Die eine Spur führt zu einem russischen Nachtclub, die andere zu einer misslungenen Undercoveraktion. Die ermittelnden Cops unter Leitung des Sergeants, den alle nur "das Orakel" nennen, stehen unter Erfolgsdruck. Und es zeigt sich bald, dass es im glamourösen L. A. nur an der Oberfläche funkelt, die Schattenseite darunter jedoch umso verderbter und dunkler ist...

The Choirboys of the title are five sets of partners on the night-watch of the LA Police. It is not the violence of their jobs that endangers them, but their choice of off-duty entertainment. A chilling and authentic thriller from Wambaugh, himself a former LAPD officer.

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He is a damned good cop - a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner - twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.?Wambaugh sidesteps all the clich?s?He has the ability to portray women as flesh-and-blood, thinking human beings.? ? The Sun (Baltimore)First-rate?Fast, colorful, and gripping?as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.?...

He is a damned good cop - a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner - twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love.?Wambaugh sidesteps all the clich?s?He has the ability to portray women as flesh-and-blood, thinking human beings.? ? The Sun (Baltimore)First-rate?Fast, colorful, and gripping?as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.?...

From the acclaimed bestselling author of "The Onion Field" comes the extraordinary true story of a California arson investigator and fire captain who was also, according to government profilers, the most prolific American arsonist of the 20th century.

In mass market. Joseph Wambaugh, 'master of the modern police novel' (Michael Connelly) and author of the bestsellers Hollywood Station and Hollywood Moon, is back with the new gripping novel about the LAPD in HOLLYWOOD HILLS, raucous tale that showcases Wambaugh in vintage form. Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective sergeant, is the bestselling author of 19 prior works of fiction and nonfiction, including The Choirboys and The Onion Field....

Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn?t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath."A distinguished 'factual novel.'A fascinating acco...

In the latest masterpiece from "the father of the modern police novel, " comedy, tragedy, and suspense intertwine in a Dickensian tale set in Hollywood.

Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap-each has his horror story, his bad dream, his nightshriek. He is afraid of his friends-he is afraid of himself."-New York TimesPartners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they're haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch-shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. "A master storyteller . . . authenticity oozes from this book . . . freewheeling and chilling a...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • "A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psychological."-Truman CapoteThis is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field."A complex story of tragic proportions . . . more ambitious than In Cold Blood and equally compelling!"-The New York Times"Once the act...

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Los Angeles, 9 marzo 1963. Campbell e Hettinger, due agenti di pattuglia che lavorano da poco in coppia fermano un'auto sospetta. A bordo due delinquenti di piccolo cabotaggio con una lunga storia di reati e carcere alle spalle. I due criminali disarmano i poliziotti, li rapiscono e, dopo un lungo tragitto in auto sulle freeways intorno a Los Angeles, li portano in un campo di cipolle. Ed è nella polvere di una sterrata di campagna, nell'odore...