A Joseph Wambaugh Omnibus by Joseph Wambaugh

602 pages, Paperback

233 x 153 x 60mm (L x W x T)

Condition: Very Good (Has very small/minor signs of wear). There no markings, inscriptions or signatures of any kind, pages are clean and vibrant.

A city of dreams, a city of shadows. Hollywood. Where the glitz and glamour mask a darker reality, where the cops of Hollywood Station navigate a labyrinth of costumed madness, petty crimes, and the ever-present hum of the city's underbelly.

But beyond the flashing lights and tourist throngs, a different Los Angeles simmers, a pressure cooker on the verge of explosion. A new narrative unfolds, a five-year chronicle etched in the lives of three officers, from the sterile halls of boot camp to the brutal education of the city's streets.

And then there's Bumper Morgan, a veteran cop, his career etched in two decades of service, retirement looming like a distant, distorted horizon. He clings to a personal code, a belief in justice that bends the rules, where a carefully placed act of violence can expedite the truth. The game, as he sees it, is played with pragmatism, and it usually delivers.

But the specter of retirement casts a long, unsettling shadow, blurring his judgment, leading him down a path of perilous errors. Mistakes that carry a deadly consequence. A slow, chilling descent into a darkness where the lines between justice and vengeance blur, and the price of a single misstep is paid in blood.