Fire Lover
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 investigators, a captain in the Glendale Fire Department ...
The astonishing true story of a nightmarish obsession -- and the hunt for a brilliant psychopath who lived a double life.
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The Blooding
Wambaugh, best known for his books dealing with American crime and detection, here tells the engrossing story of two British sex murders and the police hunt for the killer. The title stems from a procedure of genetic fingerprinting detected by examining blood samples, and used by the police to catch the murderer. Armed with the new discovery for detection, the police launched a massive drive to "fingerprint" men in the Narborough village area.
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The Onion Field
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.
"A complex story of tragic proportions... more ambitious than In Cold Blood and equally compelling!" -- The New York Times
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The New Centurions
Joe Wambaugh's first book, and the one that set the standard for realistic police stories. Wambaugh writes about the LAPD like no one else. His novels are gritty and filled with black humor, yet cut to the heart of the reality of police work told as only someone who has been there can tell the story.
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