Joseph Wambaugh
Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective sergeant, is the “New York Times” bestselling author of "The Onion Field, The Blooding, The Choirboys, " and many other fiction and nonfiction works. He has won a number of awards, including the Edgar Allan Poe award and the Rodolfo Walsh Prize for investigative journalism. He lives with his wife in California.
Joseph Wambaugh's Books
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Michael P. Spradlin
It’s one of the first books written for adults that I read as a teenager and it took me to a place and way of life (being a cop in L.A.) that a small-town Midwestern kid could never have imagined, even after watching Adam-12 and Dragnet religiously. It also taught me it was okay for a book to be funny. Even outrageously funny. In a good way.
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The Choirboys (3)
Partners 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. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap-each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends-he is af…
Hollywood Station (2)
A #1 “New York Times” bestselling author, Joseph Wambaugh invented the modern police procedural thriller. Now in his long-awaited return to the LAPD, he deploys his bone-deep understanding of cops’ lives—and a lethal sense of humor—in a stunning new novel.
For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and tryin…
Hollywood Moon (0)
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…
The Black Marble (0)
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, thinkin…
Hollywood Crows (0)
When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they’re just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What …
