Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh
While the cops out of Hollywood station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and ordinary lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point. Under the watchful eye of the veteran sergeant they call Oracle, the Hollywood station squad are as different as the streets they police. Budgie Polk's back on duty while still breast-feeding her son, begrudgingly teamed with old school patrol officer Fausto Gamboa. Flotsam and Jetsam live only for surfing and the petite - but intrepid - Meg Takara. Andi McCrea goes off duty and into night classes, while rich kid rookie Wesley Drubb is as desperate to see some action as Nathan 'Hollywood' Weiss is to get his script developed. Under-staffed and over-worked, bound by red tape and hobbled by political correctness, these men and women hold the front line in LA's epicentre, but add a diamond robbery, the Russian mafia and a cluelessly ambitious glass freak and something has got to give...
Wambaugh is the best in the business - Kathy Reichs Violent, funny and moving..hugely enjoyable - The Times A terrific book, as good as anything Wambaugh has done...although addiction is an important element in the plot, none of the substances described has the hook or the kick of Wambaugh on this form - Guardian Wambaugh's back and better than ever - Independent on Sunday I have been waiting a long time for this book and two pages in I knew it was worth every minute, month and year - Michael ConnellyIt's truly a cause for celebration that one of the most influential and important of police crime novelists is back in the spotlight again the 21st century... Wambaugh's knowing authorial tone always informs his kinetic narrative - The Rough Guide to Crime
Joseph Wambaugh served with the LAPD for fourteen years. The author of The New Centurions and The Choirboys, he is internationally recognised as one of crime fiction's Grand Masters. He lives in California.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847240897 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847240895 |
| Title | Hollywood Station |
| Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Quercus Publishing |
| Year published | 2007-08-02 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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