Джозеф Уэмбо

Пальмы и песчаные бури, великосветские загородные клубы и особняки миллионеров, кинозвезды, контрабандисты, торговцы наркотиками и сыщики. Все это есть в последнем, недавно вышедшем в США романе Джозефа Уомбо, одного из самых популярных американских писателей.

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

The New Centurions

The Choirboys, a novel, is a controversial 1975 work of fiction written by Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh. In 1995 the novel was selected by the Mystery Writers of America as Number 93 of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. The Choirboys is a tragicomic parody about the effects of urban police work on young officers, seen through the exploits of a group of...

Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch–shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap–each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.

Пальмы и песчаные бури, великосветские загородные клубы и особняки миллионеров, кинозвезды, контрабандисты, торговцы наркотиками и сыщики. Все это есть в последнем, недавно вышедшем в США романе Джозефа Уомбо, одного из самых популярных американских писателей.

An idealistic rookie cop joins the LAPD to make ends meet while finishing law school, and is indoctrinated by a seasoned veteran. As time goes on, he loses his ambitions and family as police work becomes his entire life.

The New Centurions

The Choirboys, a novel, is a controversial 1975 work of fiction written by Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist Joseph Wambaugh. In 1995 the novel was selected by the Mystery Writers of America as Number 93 of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. The Choirboys is a tragicomic parody about the effects of urban police work on young officers, seen through the exploits of a group of...

Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they’re haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch–shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call choir practice. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap–each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends–he is afraid of himself.