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Books by Joseph Wambaugh
  | | The Choirboys(Reprint) A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh, James Ellroy Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2007 by Delta Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-385-34160-8, ISBN: 0-385-34160-1 "“Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap—each has his horror story, his bad dream, his nightshriek. He is afraid of his friends—he is afraid of himself.”—New York TimesPartners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch–shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. “A master storyteller . . . authenticity oozes from this book . . . freewheeling and ch ..." |
 | | Fire Lover(Reprint) A True Story by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2003 by Avon ISBN-13: 978-0-06-009528-4, ISBN: 0-06-009528-8 "On an October evening in South Pasadena, a horrifying wave of flame swept through a large home improvement center, snuffing out the lives of four innocent people, including a two-year-old boy. Firefighters rushed to the scene, even as a pair of equally suspicious fires broke out in two nearby stores. Silently watching the raging inferno in the midst of the heat, smoke, and chaos was a man respected as one of California's foremost arson ..." |
 | | Echoes in the Darkness(1st Edition) by Joseph Wambaugh, Suzanne Collins Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 1987 by Bantam Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-553-26932-1, ISBN: 0-553-26932-1 "On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line." Her two children had vanished. The Main Line Murder Case burst upon the headlines--and wasn't resolved for seven years. Now, master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh reconstructs the case from its roots, recounting the details, drama, players and pawns in this bizarre crime that ..." |
 | | Hollywood Hills(Reprint) A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 2011 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-58408-1, ISBN: 0-446-58408-8 "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 t ..." |
 | | The Onion Field(Reprint) by Joseph Wambaugh, James Ellroy Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2007 by Delta Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-385-34159-2, ISBN: 0-385-34159-8 "NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psychological.”—Truman CapoteThis is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.“A complex story of tragic proportions . . . more ambitious than In Cold Blood and equally compelling!”—The New York Times“Once ..." |
 | | Hollywood Hills(1st Edition) A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh, Aidan Meehan Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by Little, Brown And Company ISBN-13: 978-0-316-12950-3, ISBN: 0-316-12950-X "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 t ..." |
 | | Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Head Of Zeus ISBN-13: 978-1-908800-55-8, ISBN: 1-908800-55-0 "Los Angeles Harbour is one of the world's busiest ports. It's also where the ocean, in the words of Dinko Babich, meets the ghetto and a locus for theft, extortion, drug smuggling and human trafficking. Dinko is a third generation longshoreman, and while no stranger to a little extra-legal activity himself, he's simply got used to looking the other way. Until he's paid to transport Lita – a beautiful and surprisingly sweet Mexican dan ..." |
 | | Harbor Nocturne(1st Edition) by Joseph Wambaugh Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2012 by Mysterious Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8021-2610-8, ISBN: 0-8021-2610-3 "In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world’s busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed, as their love develops among the myriad cops and criminals who occupy the harbor. Suspense and ..." |
 | | Hollywood Crows(Reprint) A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 431 Pages, Published 2008 by Grand Central Publishing ISBN-13: 978-0-446-50582-6, ISBN: 0-446-50582-X "Its all very well being a legend, but if people think youre no longer doing the thing that made your name celebrated, you run the risk of being yesterdays news. Joseph Wambaughs esteem among crime readers couldn't be higher, with such books as The Onion Field and The Choirboys assuring him of Olympian status. But those classics were written many years ago so it was a cause for considerable celebration when Wambaugh stormed back in ..." |
 | | Hollywood Station(1st Edition) A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh, Michael Connelly., Mary Jane Ward Hardcover, 340 Pages, Published 2006 by Little, Brown And Company ISBN-13: 978-0-316-06614-3, ISBN: 0-316-06614-1 "For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and trying not to get killed. If you're a cop in Hollywood Division, it also means dealing with the most overwrought, desperate, and deluded criminals anywhere. When you're patrolling Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, neither a good reputation nor the lessons of scandals past will help you keep your cool, your sanity, or your life when things heat up.The robbery of a Hollywood jewelry stor ..." |
 | | Fire Lover(1st Edition) A True Story by Joseph Wambaugh Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2002 by William Morrow ISBN-13: 978-0-06-009527-7, ISBN: 0-06-009527-X "From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, the acclaimed author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may have been, according to U.S. government profilers, "the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century."Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr would watch in awe as firefighters scrambled to put out blazes with seeming disregard for their own lives. One d ..." |
 | | The Onion Field(Reprint) by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 448 Pages, Published 1987 by Dell ISBN-13: 978-0-440-17350-2, ISBN: 0-440-17350-7 "This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one march night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field." |
 | | The New Centurions(Reprint) by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 1987 by Dell ISBN-13: 978-0-440-16417-3, ISBN: 0-440-16417-6 " Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind the thin blue line. In a class of new police recruits, Augustus Plebesly is fast and scared. Roy Fehler is full of ideals. And Serge Duran is an ex-marine running away from his Chicano c ..." |
 | | The Black Marble by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 354 Pages, Published 2013 by Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road ISBN-13: 978-1-4532-3486-0, ISBN: 1-4532-3486-1 "Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge against men. These unlikely partners are assigned the strange case of a stolen show dog being held for ransom. In this bittersweet tale that the "Los Angeles Times" called terrifying and romantic, the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. "Cosmopolitan "called it fas ..." |
 | | Glitter Dome (Paperback Or Softback) by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 324 Pages, Published 2013 by Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road ISBN-13: 978-1-4532-3487-7, ISBN: 1-4532-3487-X "It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio boss who may have been involved in some very strange and dangerous filmmaking. Hilarious at times, heartbreaking at others, this book was liken ..." |
 | | Harbour Nocturne by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Head Of Zeus ISBN-13: 978-1-908800-70-1, ISBN: 1-908800-70-4 "Los Angeles Harbour is one of the world's busiest ports. It's also where the ocean, in the words of Dinko Babich, meets the ghetto and a locus for theft, extortion, drug smuggling and human trafficking. Dinko is a third generation longshoreman, and while no stranger to a little extra-legal activity himself, he's simply got used to looking the other way. Until he's paid to transport Lita – a beautiful and surprisingly sweet Mexican dance ..." |
 | | Floaters(1st Edition) A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 304 Pages, Published 1997 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-57595-8, ISBN: 0-553-57595-3 "Who else but Joseph Wambaugh could write "a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book" that is also acclaimed as "one of this season's best crime novels"? That's howThe New York Times Book Review and Time, respectively, described his last novel, Finnegan's Week. Nobody writes a faster, funnier, more satisfying tale of cops and criminals, the high life and lowlifes that Wambaugh--and Floaters is his sharpest yet.Mick Fortney and his partner Leeds ma ..." |
 | | Finnegan''s Week by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 1994 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-56440-2, ISBN: 0-553-56440-4 "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(1st Edition) by Joseph Wambaugh Hardcover, 348 Pages, Published 1993 by William Morrow & Co ISBN-13: 978-0-688-12801-2, ISBN: 0-688-12801-7 "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. 300,000 first printing. $250,000 ad/promo. BOMC Feat Alt. Tour." |
 | | Fugitive Nights(Reprint) A Novel by Joseph Wambaugh Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 1992 by Bantam ISBN-13: 978-0-553-29578-8, ISBN: 0-553-29578-0 "Playground for the rich, arena for the powerful, graveyard for the unlucky—welcome to Palm Springs! For some, it’s the pleasure capital of the world. For other, it’s a city of last chances, a paradise on the edge of the desert. For soon-to-be-ex-cop Lynn Cutter, sweating out a disability pension, it could become a point of no return. As a rule, Cutter wouldn’t give a private investigator the time of day, but Breda Burrows is the exc ..." |
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