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Hollywood Crows: A Novel | 
| Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Category: Book
Buy New: $7.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  31 reviews
Sales Rank: 43350
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 448
ISBN: 044650582X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780446505826
ASIN: 044650582X
Publication Date: October 1, 2008 (In 73 Days)
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Product Description
Seduction, black-market booze, burglary, and murder-not your ordinary fare for a division of peacekeeping officers, but Hollywood isn't your ordinary town. When a couple of LAPD cops find themselves caught up with a certain femme fatale, they're in for trouble. Meet Margot Aziz, the beautiful, soon-to-be-ex wife of Ali Aziz, proprietor of a Sunset Boulevard strip club. Ali has his diamond-studded fingers in multiple shady business deals-and he wants his lovely wife dead. Enter Hollywood Nate Weiss, a cop hungry for stardom and looking for love. Nate works alongside a squad of L.A.'s finest, including a duo of suntanned surfer cops, two tenacious women officers, and a wily veteran. As they all discover, Hollywood always deceives you, and love always comes packing heat.
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 Welcome Back July 19, 2008
This follow on to Hollywood Station, is another unusual, informative, entertaining look at the LAPD Hollywood Division,with primary focus on the Community Relations Office. Wambaugh addresses in three plot lines, each of which harkens to his early 70'w work, policing LA in the 21st century under the aegis of a consent decree, hostile media, and an unsupportive police command structure. As always, Wambaugh stresses the extraordinary emotional toll inflicted by urban policing. The street vignettes are fascinating. Wambaugh's yearning (through "The Oracle" and his memory) for "the day" and his belief that the LAPD has been hobbled by political correctness run amok are crystal clear. Also interesting are the demise of the Choirboys/choir practice culture and the unconditional acceptance of female police officers. Welcome back to LA. Wambaugh's long soujourn in San Diego is thankfully over.
Wambaugh June 2, 2008
This like his last to a while to get moving but once it was rolling is was a great edition to his writting.
 Solid effort May 31, 2008
It's good to get some of the real street stories. We know they are real, only real stories are this crazy. The plot is thin, but the human pain real, as officers damaged by what they have seen, fail. Well done.
Good Follow-up to Hollywood Station May 25, 2008
As with all the author's LAPD books, the characters are why you will enjoy the book. Wambaugh, like Jack Webb and Dragnet, are willing to stray from the usual territory of Robbery/Homicide or Narcotics Units and look at other aspects of police work. In this story Community Relations has center stage. They are kind of the JVs of the Hollywood Division talking care of complaints from irate citizens more than tradition crimes. Of course major crimes are weaved into the book along with the mudane duties of the CRO officers. The characters from Hollywood Station are back and the brief scenes with FX the motor officer are worth the price of the book alone. Poor LAPD trying to get by in a PC world where liberal shibboleths define what they can do.
Hollywood Crows May 19, 2008
Like police work, Wambaughs stories have changed and kept up with the times. The problems with politicians, administration that has no idea how the job is done and the incredible loops that must be jumped through just to get the job done reflect today's police work.
Wambaugh's character profiles and story lines are as good as ever.
The worst part about any Wambaugh novel is getting to the end and waiting for the next one to come out.
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