Joseph Wambaugh
All Books By Joseph Wambaugh
Finnegan’s Week
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Length: 10 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: February 05, 2013
- Language: English
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3.67(1373 ratings)
Harbor Nocturne
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Length: 10 hours 36 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: April 03, 2012
- Language: English
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3.97(2085 ratings)
When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from San Pedro Harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, their lives are forever changed. An unexpectedly tender and moving love story develops among the cops and criminals who occupy the harbor, and soon Dinko and Lita are caught up in terror and peril through no fault of their own. Some LAPD characters from Wambaugh#8217;s acclaimed #8220;Hollywood Station#8221; series are here: the surfer cops #8220;Flotsam and Jetsam,#8221; aspiring actor #8220;Hollywood Nate#8221; Weiss, and young Britney Small, along with new members of the midwatch, all gamely coping with the wackiness of Hollywood. It#8217;s a tale only Wambaugh could have told, with his trademark dark humor and unflinching eye for detail.
... Read moreHollywood Crows
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrator: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: March 25, 2008
- Language: English
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3.87(1471 ratings)
When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they’re just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don’t know is that Margot’s no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn’t the only one with a deadly plan.
Hollywood Hills
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrator: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hours 18 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 16, 2010
- Language: English
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3.96(937 ratings)
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 fiancee, 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.
Hollywood Hills is a raucous and dangerous roller coaster ride that showcases Joseph Wambaugh in vintage form.
Hollywood Moon
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrator: Christian Rummel
- Length: 11 hours 44 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 24, 2009
- Language: English
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3.9(1366 ratings)
There’s a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast — rather than the best — in 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 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 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.
Hollywood Station
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Narrator: Adam Grupper
- Length: 11 hours 54 minutes
- Publisher: Hachette Audio
- Publish date: November 28, 2006
- Language: English
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3.8(2354 ratings)
Putting the pieces together are the sergeant they call the Oracle and his squad of street cops. There’s Budgie Polk, a twenty-something firecracker with a four-month-old at home, and Wesley Drubb, a rich boy who joined the force seeking thrills. Fausto Gamboa is the tetchy veteran, and Hollywood Nate is the one who never shuts up about movies. They spend their days in patrol cars and their nights in the underbelly of a city that never sleeps. From their headquarters at Hollywood Station, they see the glamour city for what it is: a field of land mines, where the mundane is dangerous and the dangerous is mundane.
The Glitter Dome
- By: Joseph Wambaugh
- Length: 10 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Highbridge Company
- Publish date: October 11, 2011
- Language: English
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4(1 ratings)