<div>A New York Times&ndash;bestselling police thriller by the author of Harbor Nocturne: Two LAPD detectives look into the murder of a Hollywood studio boss. It&rsquo;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 likened by theNew York Daily News to a &ldquo;one-two combination that leaves the reader reeling.&rdquo; </div>

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<div>A toxic spill causes a lethal chain reaction for a San Diego cop in this &ldquo;very funny&rdquo; New York Times bestseller by the author of The Choirboys (Kirkus Reviews). Fin Finnegan, a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor heading straight for a midlife meltdown, is assigned a routine truck theft that turns into a toxic chemical spill, setting off a bizarre chain reaction of death and murder on both sides of the Mexican border. Fin is forced to team up with Nell Salter, a sexy female investigator, as well as an equally fetching US Navy investigator who wants to learn all that Fin can teach her&mdash;and that&rsquo;s saying a lot. The New York Times Book Review called it &ldquo;a frolic, a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book.&rdquo; And Entertainment Weekly said, &ldquo;superbly crafted and paced, deliciously funny, but fundamentally, as always, deadly serious.&rdquo;</div>

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<div>Two LAPD cops stumble into trouble during a search for a kidnapped dog in this &ldquo;superb&rdquo; New York Times bestseller from the author of Hollywood Station (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). 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 &ldquo;terrifying and romantic,&rdquo; the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. Cosmopolitan called it &ldquo;fast, colorful and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining.&rdquo;</div>

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<div>The hunt forthe most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century&mdash;in this Edgar Award&ndash;winning true crime story that&rsquo;s &ldquo;stranger than fiction&rdquo; (The New York Times). From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times&ndash;bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the &ldquo;Pillow Pyro,&rdquo; led by one ambitious firefighter. Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized law enforcement. However, after being rejected by both the LAPD and LAFD, he settled for a position with the Glendale Fire Department. There, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a fire captain and one of Southern California&rsquo;s best-known and most respected arson investigators. But Orr led another, unseen life, one that included womanizing and an insatiable thirst for recognition. While Orr busted a slew of petty arsonists, there was one serial criminal he could not track down. Nothing was safe from the so-called Pillow Pyro&rsquo;s obsession. Homes, retail stores, and fields of dry brush all went up in flames. His handiwork led to millions of dollars worth of property damage and the deaths of four innocent bystanders. But after years of evading the police, he made a mistake&mdash;one that would turn Orr&rsquo;s life upside down. The Washington Post raves, &ldquo;When [Joseph Wambaugh] talks about the culture of cops versus the culture of firemen, we get no speculation, only hard-earned details.&rdquo; Based on meticulous research, interviews, case records, and thousands of pages of court transcripts, Fire Lover is Wambaugh at his best.</div>

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<div>A &ldquo;darkly comic, gritty look at life on the streets&rdquo; from the former LAPD detective and multiple New York Times bestseller (Publishers Weekly). In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world&rsquo;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 tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor, with the unflinching eye for detail and spot-on humor that only a master of the form like Joseph Wambaugh can provide. Their paths will cross with many colorful characters introduced in Wambaugh&rsquo;s acclaimed bestselling Hollywood Station series: the surfer cops known as &ldquo;Flotsam and Jetsam&rdquo;, aspiring actor &ldquo;Hollywood Nate&rdquo; Weiss, young Britney Small, along with new members of the midwatch. Humor, love, suspense and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor, with the unflinching eye for detail and spot-on humor that only a master of the form like Joseph Wambaugh can provide.</div>

Harbor Nocturne

<div>A policewoman chronicles her historic legal battle against sexism within the LAPD in this &ldquo;valuable . . . and at times, frightening&rdquo; memoir (Kirkus Reviews). Former Army major Fanchon Blake dreamed of becoming a top cop. She joined the LAPD in 1948, confident that her efforts and talent would be rewarded. Instead, despite long hours and high achievement ratings, Blake&mdash;like all other women on the force&mdash;was denied promotion time and again. Over the years, the tenacious officer challenged the LAPD&rsquo;s discriminatory agenda from within. Eventually, she broke the &ldquo;blue wall of silence&rdquo; by going to the press. And when all else failed, Blake saw one last chance to effect change: she filed a complaint against the LAPD with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 1973. What followed was a harrowing struggle against discrimination that would make history for women and other minority groups. Despite the ensuing verbal abuse, silent treatment, and intimidation, Blake pushed on. Seven years later, her heroic efforts would finally make it possible for women to bust through the brass ceiling.</div>

Busting the Brass Ceiling

<div>Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Gritty, luminous, and ultimately stunning, this novel is Wambaugh at his best--a tale of a street cop on the hardest beat of his life. Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two days before he "pulls the pin" and walks away from it forever. But on the gritty streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like some kind of knight in armor--they've plied him with come-ons, hot tips, and the hard respect a man can't earn anywhere else. Now, with a new job and a good woman waiting for him, a kinky thief terrorizing L.A.'s choice hotels, and a tragedy looming, Bumper Morgan is about to face the only thing that can scare him: the demons that he's been hiding behind his bright and shiny badge...</div>

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Books By Joseph Wambaugh (6 Books)

The Glitter Dome

Finnegan's Week

The Black Marble

Fire Lover

Harbor Nocturne

The Blue Knight

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Books By Joseph Wambaugh (6 Books)

The Glitter Dome

Finnegan's Week

The Black Marble

Fire Lover

Harbor Nocturne

The Blue Knight

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