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| Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  35 reviews
Sales Rank: 539633
Format: Large Print
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 608
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.9
Dimensions (in): 9.4 x 6 x 2
ISBN: 0316026719
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780316026710
ASIN: 0316026719
Publication Date: March 25, 2008
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| Customer Reviews:
 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.
Been There Done That May 16, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Another great read by Joseph Wambaugh. Appears not much as changed since I worked the Hollywood area in the late 70's, brought back some memories. Being retired from police work, just reading the book, I was able to place myself in the shoes of the characters, nothing really changes. Wambaugh does a good job pulling all the characters together, good humor, tells it like it is, and the book was very difficult to put down.
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