In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood[...]

It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio bos[...]

It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio bos[...]

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

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.[...]

Joseph Wambaugh är författaren som många andra författare nämner som förebild. James Ellroy, Leif GW Persson, Michael Connelly. Listan på framgångsrika och beundrande författarkollegor är lång.

Så här skriver Jens Lapidus i förordet till Wambaughs nya roman Hollywoods Kråkor: <[...]

Hollywood Måne är tredje delen av Joseph Wambaughs serie om polismännen och kvinnorna i Hollywood.

Oraklet, den legendariske men döde kommissarien vid Hollywood station, brukade säga att fullmåne över Hollywood lockar fram the beast, not the best ut filmhuvudstadens invånare.