Joseph Wambaugh Volgorde van de boeken

Ex Longshoreman and taxi driver Dink Babich tries to protect a dancer after she witnesses something that links her to the murder of 13 people.

Margot Aziz bringt Abwechslung in Hollywood-Nates Polizeialltag, der von verrückten Junkies und drogendealenden Toons geprägt ist. Doch in Hollywood ist nichts wie es scheint: Margot ist kein hilfsbedürftiges Wesen, sondern gefährlich.

Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tightly plotted and darkly funny ride through Los Angeles's epicentre with a cast of flawed cops and eccentric lowlifes they won't soon forget.

Hollywood Station: While the cops out of Hollywood Station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and everyday lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point. The New Centurions: The story of five years in the lives of three policemen, from boot camp to the bitter realities of patrolling the streets of Los Angeles The Blue Knight: Bumper Morgan is a cop with twenty years' service under his belt and retirement looming. His outlook is old-fashioned: he believes in justice - even when it doesn't conform to the letter of the law. If a judicious bit of violence will give him what he needs to solve a crime, so be it. That's the way the game's played. And it usually works. But the prospect of retirement is clouding Bumper's judgement and he finds himself making mistakes. The kind of mistakes that kill people.

While the cops out of Hollywood station deal with the costumed crackheads, prostitutes, purse snatchers, tweakers and ordinary lunatics that haunt the boulevards, in the streets behind the lights and crowds, the real Los Angeles simmers, never far from boiling point.Under the watchful eye of the veteran sergeant they call Oracle, the Hollywood station squad are as different as the streets they police. Budgie Polk's back on duty while still breast-feeding her son, begrudgingly teamed with old school patrol officer Fausto Gamboa. Flotsam and Jetsam live only for surfing and the petite - but intrepid - Meg Takara. Andi McCrea goes off duty and into night classes, while rich kid rookie Wesley Drubb is as desperate to see some action as Nathan 'Hollywood' Weiss is to get his script developed.Under-staffed and over-worked, bound by red tape and hobbled by political correctness, these men and women hold the front line in LA's epicentre, but add a diamond robbery, the Russian mafia and a cluelessly ambitious glass freak and something has got to give...

In San Diego findet der Admiral's Cup statt, das älteste Segelrennen der Welt. Die Neuseeländer wollen den Titelverteidiger besiegen. Ambrose Lutterworth, der Hüter des Cups, plant mit der verführerischen Blaze Duvall, doch zwei Morde am Vorabend des Rennens bedrohen seinen Plan.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLSER • “This is vintage Wambaugh, a rollicking and ribald tale, laced with black humor.”—The San Diego Union-Tribune Harbor cops Fortney and Leeds have a good time patrolling San Diego’s Mission Bay, scopingout body-sculpted beauties on pleasure craft, rescuing boating bozos who’ve run aground, and haulingin the occasional floater. But now their days are anything but typical, for theAmerica’s Cup regattas have come to town and San Diego swarms with sailors, schemers, spies, and saboteurs,and the cuppies who want to love them. It’s a randy cuppie named Blaze who tweaks their cop instincts thatsomething’s not quite right on the waterfront—and it’sBlaze who sets off a bizarre criminal trail that wouldbe hilarious if it didn’t wind up just as nasty asit gets, with a pair of murders right on the eve of thebiggest sailing race of all. Praise for Floaters “There’s only one Joe Wambaugh. He’s a really important American writer.”—Jonathan Kellerman “[Wambaugh] dazzles with his intimate knowledge of police life, black humor, raunchy dialogue, and a cast of nineties choirboys. . . . A cop’s expertise and the literary power of a master storyteller.”—Digby Diehl, Playboy “The author’s trademark sardonic writing is in full force here.”—Publishers Weekly

Butterworth, Titelverteidiger des America's Cup, versucht mit allen Mitteln die favorisierten Neuseeländer aus dem Rennen zu schiessen. Da geschehen am Tag vor dem Rennen zwei Morde. Thriller aus dem Segelsportmilieu

In "Impronta di sangue" ("The Blooding", 1989) il tema è fornito dalla scoperta, da parte dell'inglese Alee Jeffreys, del modello genetico, cioè delle particolari caratteristiche del DNA, diverse da individuo a individuo e assolutamente irripetibili. Da una goccia di sangue o di sperma è divenuto così possibile risalire all'identità di una persona, con un grado di sicurezza tale da rendere obsoleto il tradizionale metodo delle impronte digitali. Si può ricorrere al "fingerprinting" genetico per stabilire la compatibilità ereditaria, la tipologia dei gemelli, ma anche per scoprire un assassino. Di questa insolita collaborazione tra genetica e codice penale, Wambaugh ci offre un esempio da manuale, ricavato dagli annali giudiziari della corte inglese.