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The Joseph Wambaugh Omnibus: Hollywood Station, The New Centurions, The Blue Knight
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While the cops out of Hollywood Station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, tweakers and everyday lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point.
The New Centurions
From the baby-faced rookies to the grizzled veterans, the new centurions are besieged men, dealing daily with a world coming apart. Hunting killers, quelling gang wars, fighting corruption, these are the Los Angeles blues - and they're a new breed of cop.
The Blue Knight
In twenty years as a cop, Bumper Morgan's always believed in securing justice by any means, so if a judicious bit of violence will help him solve a crime, he won't hold back. But with the prospect of retirement clouding his judgement, Bumper finds himself making mistakes. And in his job, mistakes can kill.
I am a retired police officer and no one -- no one -- captures the mood, the action, the drama, the humor and the near-insanity that is police work in America better than Joseph Wambaugh. The New Centurions is based on actual events in LA and stands as the definative work about the effect police work has on the minds of the young men and women who enter the field. The Blue Knight is a muscular telling of what it is like to be a police officer consumed with the job and settling one last debt to a society that largely ignores the devastating impact of the job on the man. Hollywood Crows is another in Wambaugh's wonderful tellings of the life and times of crime fighting in America. Just a great collection.
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Overview
Hollywood StationWhile the cops out of Hollywood Station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, tweakers and everyday lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point.
The New Centurions
From the baby-faced rookies to the grizzled veterans, the new centurions are besieged men, dealing daily with a world coming apart. Hunting killers, quelling gang wars, fighting corruption, these are the Los Angeles blues - and they're a new breed of cop.
The Blue ...