Joseph Wambaugh

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The Choirboys

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The Black Marble

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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

They call their sergeant the Oracle. Hes a seasoned LAPD veteran who keeps a close watch over his squad from his understaffed office at Hollywood Station. They are: Budgie Polk, a 27-year-old firecracker whos begrudgingly teamed with Fausto Gamboa, the oldest, tetchiest patrol officer. Andi McCrea, a single mom who spends her days studying at the local community college. Wesley Drubb, a USC drop-out who joined the force to see some action. Flotsam and Jetsam, two aptly named surfer boys who pine after the petitebut intrepidMeg Takara. And Hank Driscoll, the one who never shuts up. Together they spend their days and nights in the citys underbelly, where a string of seemingly unrelated events lures the cops of Hollywood Station to their most startling case yet: Russians, diamonds, counterfeiting, grenadesa reminder that nothings too horrific or twisted for Los Angeles. Here, its business as usual. For the first time in 20 years, Wambaugh revisits the kind of story he tells bestlife in the LAPD. Not only have his fans been waiting for this comeback, but readers of the new generation of police writing will have great interest in this book.

Hollywood Station

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Arkansas

A beautiful private investigator, a hard-drinking, burnt-out detective, and an over-zealous cop yearning for a position on the lush Palm Springs police force team up to capture a mysterious desert fugitive

Fugitive Nights

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Missouri

The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiancée, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of a processed-meat tycoon. Nate tries to elude her crafty seductions, but consents to keep an eye on their estate in the Hollywood Hills while they're away. Also minding the mansion is Raleigh Dibble, a hapless ex-con trying to put the past behind him. Raleigh is all too happy to be set up for the job--as butler-cum-watchdog--by Nigel Wickland, Leona's impeccably dressed art dealer. What Raleigh doesn't realize is that under the natty clothes and posh accent, Nigel has a nefarious plan: two paintings hanging on the mansion's walls will guarantee them more money than they've ever seen. Everyone's dreams are just within reach--the only problem is, this is Hollywood. A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon Nigel's heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon Hollywood Nate, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.

Hollywood Hills

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A young longshoreman's delivery of a Mexican dancer from the busy harbor of San Pedro to a Hollywood nightclub changes both of their lives when they encounter individuals on opposing sides of the law, including surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, aspiring actor Hollywood Nate and young Britney Small. By the best-selling author of The Onion Field. 50,000 first printing.

Harbor Nocturne

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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 biker. No one suspects that all three dubious characters might be involved in something bigger, more high-tech, and much more illegal. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases, the cops will find they've stumbled upon a complex web of crime where even the criminals can't be sure who's conning whom. Wambaugh once again masterfully gets inside the hearts and minds of the cops whose jobs have them constantly on the brink of danger. By turns heart-wrenching, exhilarating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Hollywood Moon is his most thrilling and deeply affecting ride yet through the singular streets of LA.

Hollywood Moon

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Encountering a seemingly harmless socialite in Margot Aziz, LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead are unaware that the woman's ugly divorce from a nefarious nightclub owner is part of a murderous ruse in which both Nate and Rumstead are being set up.

Hollywood Crows

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New York

The Secrets of Harry Bright

The Blooding

Florida

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Oklahoma

A Novel

When forty-year-old cop Winnie Farlowe lost hisnbsp;nbsp;shield, he lost the only protection he had. Evernbsp;nbsp;since, he's been fighting a bad back, fighting thenbsp;nbsp;bottle, fighting his conscience. But now he's innbsp;nbsp;for a special fight. Never before has he come upnbsp;nbsp;against anyone like Tess Binder. She's anbsp;nbsp;stunningly beautiful, sexually spirited three-timenbsp;nbsp;divorcee from Newport Beach--capital of California'snbsp;nbsp;Golden Orange, where wallets are fat, bikinis arenbsp;nbsp;skimpy, and cosmetic surgery is one sure way to anbsp;nbsp;billionaire's bank account. Nearly a year ago Tessnbsp;nbsp;Binder's father washed up on the beach with a bulletnbsp;nbsp;in his ear. The coroner called it suicide, but tonbsp;nbsp;Tess it means the fear of her own fate. Andnbsp;nbsp;Winnie Farlowe is a man willing to follow wherever shenbsp;nbsp;leads--straight into the juicy pulp of the Goldennbsp;nbsp;Orange, a world where money is everything, butnbsp;nbsp;nothing adds up . . . where death and chicanerynbsp;nbsp;flourish amidst ranches, mansions, and yachtingnbsp;nbsp;parties. In his long-awaited new novel, best-sellingnbsp;nbsp;author Joseph Wambaugh combines harrowing suspense,nbsp;nbsp;scathing humor, and a moving portrait of a man onnbsp;nbsp;the brink ofnbsp;nbsp;self-destruction.

The Golden Orange

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Ohio

Tennessee

Seeking two truckers hauling a drum of lethal chemicals, San Diego detective Finbar Finnegan joins forces with two strong-willed female cops to investigate a deadly toxic waste scam. Reprint.

Finnegan's Week

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New Jersey

In a super follow-up to Hollywood Station, Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a darkly funny ride-along with a cast of flawed LAPD cops and eccentric lowlifes you won't forget.

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 Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn't the only one with a deadly plan.

Connecticut

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Oregon

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLSER * "This is vintage Wambaugh, a rollicking and ribald tale, laced with black humor."--The San Diego Union-Tribune

Harbor cops Fortney and Leeds have a good time patrolling San Diego's Mission Bay, scopingout body-sculpted beauties on pleasure craft, rescuing boating bozos who've run aground, and haulingin the occasional floater.

But now their days are anything but typical, for theAmerica's Cup regattas have come to town and San Diego swarms with sailors, schemers, spies, and saboteurs,and the cuppies who want to love them. It's a randy cuppie named Blaze who tweaks their cop instincts thatsomething's not quite right on the waterfront--and it'sBlaze who sets off a bizarre criminal trail that wouldbe hilarious if it didn't wind up just as nasty asit gets, with a pair of murders right on the eve of thebiggest sailing race of all.

Praise for Floaters

"There's only one Joe Wambaugh. He's a really important American writer."--Jonathan Kellerman

"[Wambaugh] dazzles with his intimate knowledge of police life, black humor, raunchy dialogue, and a cast of nineties choirboys. . . . A cop's expertise and the literary power of a master storyteller."--Digby Diehl, Playboy

"The author's trademark sardonic writing is in full force here."--Publishers Weekly

Floaters

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“A cop’s-eye view of police brutality . . . courage and compassion . . . fascinating.”—The New York Times He’s big and brash. His beat is the underbelly of Los Angeles vice—a world of pimps, pushers, winos, whores and killers. He lives each day his way—on the razor’s edge of life. He was a damn good cop and LAPD detective. For fifteen years he prowled the streets, solved murders, took his lumps. Now he’s the hard hitting, tough talking best selling writer who tells the brutal, true stories of the men who risk their loves every time a siren screams. “Wambaugh has captured the excitement, terror, pity, and occasional tedium of police work in a bang-up job of writing.”—The Boston Globe

The Blue Knight

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The New Centurions

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