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Joseph Wambaugh served with the LAPD for fourteen years. He is internationally recognised as one of crime fiction's Olympians. He lives in Rancho Mirage, California with his wife, Dee.
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Wambaugh runs the same plays that he’s used repeatedly in his Hollywood series of cop novels, jumping between the lives of street people, the ridiculously wealthy denizens of the Hollywood Hills, and the cops who careen among them. This series has several cop stars, including “Hollywood Nate” Weiss, who has a SAG card and is actively pursuing a movie career, and a pair of surfer cops, known as Flotsam and Jetsam. As usual, Wambaugh gives the reader a lot of street action and one showcased plotline. This time, the cops come into contact (through Hollywood Nate) with a B-movie director, his Botoxed girlfriend, and a ring of teen burglars targeting upscale homes. The highly entertaining plotting is offset this time by Styrofoam characters and unlikely dialogue. Fans expect Wambaugh to give them actual cop talk, but he misfires here, giving his cops lines like “gymnosophical gyrations of that slammin’ speaker.” In addition, the opening scene is needlessly pornographic; Wambaugh doesn’t need to try to get readers’ attention this way. A good novel but not at all representative of what Wambaugh can do. --Connie Fletcher
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- PublisherCorvus
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1848878761
- ISBN 13 9781848878761
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages352
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