JOSEPH WAMBAUGH

Joseph WambaughThere's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beastrather than the bestin the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duoa smooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker. No one suspects that all three dubious characters might be involved in something bigger, more high-tech, and much more illegal. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases, the cops will find they've stumbled upon a complex web of crime where even the criminals can't be sure who's conning whom. Wambaugh once again masterfully gets inside the hearts and minds of the cops whose jobs have them constantly on the brink of danger. By turns heart-wrenching, exhilarating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Hollywood Moon is his most thrilling and deeply affecting ride yet through the singular streets of LA.

A través de los ojos de una excéntrica colección de policías, Wambaugh nos ofrece un retrato completo de cómo es la policía bajo la vigilancia federal dispuesta para supervisar el auténtico LAPD despues del escandalo de corrupcion de Rampart.

The man who Michael Connelly says "invented the modern police novel" delivers another dose of black humour and imaginative richness set in the surreal precint of Hollywood Station.

One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and `Hollywook´Nate Weiss, a struggling actor turned cop, gets a call about a young man who´s been attacking women...

Bestseller Wambaughs entertaining third Hollywood Station novel (after Hollywood Crows) provides lots of laughs and gasps from all of your favorite characters. Theres a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast -- rather than the best -- in the precincts citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man whos been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo -- a smooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker. No one suspects that all three dubious characters might be involved in something bigger, more high-tech, and much more illegal. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases, the cops will find theyve stumbled upon a complex web of crime where even the criminals cant be sure whos conning whom. Wambaugh once again masterfully gets inside the hearts and minds of the cops whose jobs have them constantly on the brink of danger. By turns heart-wrenching, exhilarating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Hollywood Moon is his most thrilling and deeply affecting ride yet through the singular streets of LA.

In a class of new police recruits, Augustus Plebesly is fast and scared. Roy Fehler is full of ideals. And Serge Duran is an ex-marine running away from his Chicano childhood. In a few weeks theyll put on the blue uniform of the LAPD. In the months to come, theyll learn that right and wrong arent always clearly black and white. Bad guys populate both sides of the law. Rules are subject to interpretation. Justice is slow and convoluted. And life is not fair.But for these men, these new centurions, time is an enemy. The year is 1960. The streets are burning with rage. And before they can grow old on this job, theyll have to fight for their lives...

En la comisaría de Hollywood existe el proverbio de que la luna llena hace salir a la bestia que llevan dentro los ciudadanos de la zona. Lo cual es mucho decir en este territorio lleno de travestis adictos desquiciados por la droga y aspirantes a actor desesperadosa veces hasta el extremo del asesinatopor alcanzar la fama. Aqui se mueve Dewey Gleason, maestro del disfraz. Cada uno de sus muchos personajes esta pensado para la ejecucion de un tipo concreto de discreta estafa organizada, basada en robar identidades y obtener altos beneficios. Gleason inspira temor a sus secuaces, un negro sofisticado, de formas refinadas y largas rastas, y un motero tatuado de aspecto peligrosoEn la comisaria los agentes nunca saben que les deparara la proxima patrulla. Un merodeador ha atacado violentamente a varias mujeres y los agentes Hollywood Nate Weiss y la cautivadora Dana Vaughn le pisan los talones, mientras Nate esta sumamente irritado porque su compañera tiene una gran habilidad para hacerlo sentirse siempre como un novato. Al mismo tiempo, un par de policias conocidos por sus apodos, Flotsam y Jetsam, tan famosos por detener delincuentes como por sus exhibiciones sobre la tabla de surf, buscan a un tipo con rastas y a un maton de mirada enloquecida lleno de tatuajes. Algo mas grande, mas tecnologico y mucho mas mortifero esta a punto de desencadenarse. Despues de una serie vertiginosa de giros, vueltas y persecuciones, los agentes descubriran que han dado con una compleja red criminal en la que los delincuentes no pueden estar seguros de quien engaña a quien y en la que el cumplimiento del deber se cobra el mas oneroso de los peajes.

The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power - passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy. LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiancée, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of a processed-meat tycoon. Nate tries to elude her crafty seductions, but consents to keep an eye on their estate in the Hollywood Hills while they're away. Also minding the mansion is Raleigh Dibble, a hapless ex-con trying to put the past behind him. Raleigh is all too happy to be set up for the job - as butler-cum-watchdog - by Nigel Wickland, Leona's impeccably dressed art dealer. What Raleigh doesn't realize is that under the natty clothes and posh accent, Nigel has a nefarious plan: two paintings hanging on the mansion's walls will guarantee them more money than they've ever seen. Everyone's dreams are just within reach - the only problem is, this is Hollywood. A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon Nigel's heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon Hollywood Nate, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.

Joseph Wambaugh, maestro del thriller policíaco, ha vuelto con una adictiva novela focalizada una vez más en los oficiales de la Hollywood Station del LAPD; en concreto en el papel que desempeñan los cuervos, nombre popular dela Oficina de Relaciones Comunitarias (CRO), formado por policias que no estan satisfechos en las calles y que se sienten mas seguros velando por la calidad de vida de los vecinos. Los policias de Wambaugh reiteran que se sienten aplastados por el peso de la vigilancia federal que sobrevino tras varias olas de escandalos relacionados con el cuerpo de policia, pero, naturalmente, en manos de Wambaugh, la vida de esta comunidad rebosa humor negro y satira social. Asi, la narracion oscila entre los cuervos y el peculiar grupo de policias callejeros que tienen que lidiar con los residentes de lo que ellos llaman la capital loca de Estados Unidos. Estamos ante una de las clasicas historias de policias deWambaugh, extraida de la realidad y conducida con su inimitable e inteligente estilo. Wambaugh derrama una vez mas su acidez contra las reglas y las normas burocraticas: Wambaugh cabalga de nuevo.

For the streetwise cops of Hollywood Station, dealing with the panhandlers, prostitutes and costumed crackheads of the boulevard is all in a day's work. If they're lucky, surf-mad partners Flotsam and Jetsam can spend the morning calming the crazies and the afternoon policing the babes on the beach. But beyond the lights and the crowds on the Walk of Fame, the real Los Angeles simmers dangerously. And when things heat up, even veterans like Viv Daley will see things that they'll wish they could forget. In the hills above town, it's a different world, where sports-car-studded driveways lead to sprawling villas stuffed with clothes and jewels. Up here, pickings are easy for the Bling Ring - a group of photogenic young addicts who knock off celebrity cribs to fund their next fix. Even experienced cop and wannabe filmstar Nate 'Hollywood' Weiss has struck gold in the hills. Leona Bruger, wife of an Industry Mover and Shaker, has taken a fancy to him. Although he knows the Hollywood maxim - you don't pet the cougars, especially if they belong to the boss - Nate reckons that a leg-over might be just the leg-up he needs. What Weiss doesn't realise is that his new flame's crooked art-dealer is about to pull a forgery scam right under his nose. And when a pair of desperate junkies hit on a foolproof plan to pay their drug debts with a stolen painting, things get very complicated indeed...It is suitable for fans of Robert Crais, Carl Hiassen, Elmore Leonard, and, George Pelecanos.

For the streetwise cops of Hollywood Station, dealing with the panhandlers, prostitutes and costumed crackheads of the boulevard is all in a days work. If theyre lucky, surf-mad partners Flotsam and Jetsam can spend the morning calming the crazies and the afternoon policing the babes on the beach. But beyond the lights and the crowds on the Walk of Fame, the real Los Angeles simmers dangerously. And when things heat up, even veterans like Viv Daley will see things that theyll wish they could forget.In the hills above town, its a different world, where sports-car-studded driveways lead to sprawling villas stuffed with clothes and jewels. Up here, pickings are easy for the Bling Ring - a group of photogenic young addicts who knock off celebrity cribs to fund their next fix. Even experienced cop and wannabe filmstar Nate "Hollywood" Weiss has struck gold in the hills. Leona Bruger, wife of an Industry Mover and Shaker, has taken a fancy to him. Although he knows the Hollywood maxim - you dont pet the cougars, especially if they belong to the boss - Nate reckons that a leg-over might be just the leg-up he needs. What Weiss doesnt realise is that his new flames crooked art-dealer is about to pull a forgery scam right under his nose. And when a pair of desperate junkies hit on a foolproof plan to pay their drug debts with a stolen painting, things get very complicated indeed...

Nate, un veterano de la policía de Los Angeles que sueña con ser actor se compromete a mantener la casa de un productor amigo dueño de valiosas pinturas. Nigel Wickland planea robarlas. Nate se compromete a llevar a cabo la investigacion con la esperanza de participar en una pelicula.

Bumper Morgan is a cop, a patrolman with twenty years service under his belt and retirement is looming ominously close. His outlook is old-fashioned: he believes in justice - even when it doesnt 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. Thats the way the games played. And it usually works. Until the prospect of retirement clouds his judgement and Bumper finds himself starting to make mistakes. The kind of mistakes that kill people.

Joseph Wambaugh regresa al único y auténtico LAPD (Departamento de Policía de Los Ángeles) con un nuevo y absorbente relato sobre el cuerpo de policía más complejo de Estados Unidos.Bajo la atenta mirada del sargento de policia apodado el Oraculo, los agentes de la comisaria Hollywood se enfrentan a su rutina habitual. Entre dias en los coches de patrulla y noches en las entrañas de una ciudad que nunca duerme, este grupo de policias ve la urbe del glamour en su cruda realidad: un campo de minas donde lo mundano es peligroso y lo peligroso es mundano. Pero, a medida que pasan por tugurios de drogas y sucias esquinas, una serie de acontecimientos sin relacion aparente los lleva al caso mas sorprendente sucedido en la comisaria en los ultimos años, y les recuerda que en Los Angeles el horror y el extremismo no tienen limite.Con este esperado regreso a LAPD, Joseph Wambaugh ofrece a sus lectores un viaje estrepitoso por las calles de Hollywood, donde nadie esta a salvo de la crudeza de la ciudad y la policia, menos que nadie.

Joseph Wambaugh regresa al único y auténtico L.A.P.D. (Los Ángeles Departamento de Policía) con un nuevo y absorbente relato sobre el cuerpo de policía más complejo de Estados Unidos.Bajo la atenta mirada del sargento de policia apodado el Oraculo, los agentes de la comisaria Hollywood se enfrentan con su rutina habitual. Entre dias en los coches de patrulla y noches en las entrañas de una ciudad que nunca duerme, este grupo de policias ve la urbe del glamour en su cruda realidad y, a medida que pasan por tugurios de drogas y sucias esquinas, una serie de acontecimientos sin relacion aparente los lleva al caso mas sorprendente sucedido en Hollywood Station en los ultimos años, y les recuerda que en Los Angeles el horror y el extremismo no tienen limite.

Bumper Morgan is a cop, a patrolman with twenty years'' service under his belt and retirement is looming ominously close. His outlook is old-fashioned. He believes in justice - even when it doesn''t conform to the letter of the law. The prospect of retirement clouds his judgement and Bumper finds himself starting to make mistakes.