Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Narrator: Adam Verner
Unabridged: 10 hr 45 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Highbridge Audio
Published: 10/11/2011
Categories: Fiction, Suspense & Thriller
Read a scene. Laugh. Turn the page. Feel guilty that you laughed. Page after, hit you in the gut like a heavyweight boxer and makes you put the book down and catch your breath. Page after that, you laugh again. This book did that to me. It hit me hard and turned me into a Wambaugh fan. Search as I m......more
A group of off beat cops cope with crime and their own personal problems in a Los Angles police station. You have cops who "solve" cases in unusual manners and a captain who officers are trying to drive crazy.......more
Really oddly written, and at first, I didn't like it. But by the end, I was sold. I'd call this black humor realisim.......more
I was far too young when I read this book. Sixteen year old girls should not necessarily dive into the hard, gritty, dysfunctional world Wambaugh's characters inhabit. My memories of the book, which I haven't picked up since I closed the cover on the last page almost 20 years ago, are of sharp, cold......more
