Joseph Wambaugh
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...
5) The blooding
This is the suspenseful and powerful true story of the discovery of DNA identification by a university geneticist in the Midlands of England—which changed the world of forensic science and police work forever—and of its very first use in the hunt for a serial killer who terrorized a quiet English village. Playboy said, this book holds the tension and excitement of an imaginative police novel. Yet every word of it is true.
This is the true story of a squad of San Diego cops, posing as undocumented immigrants, whose mission is to police the no-man's-land by the international border where men, women, and children cross in the dead of night only to fall prey to ruthless Mexican bandits waiting to rape, rob, and murder them. The Chicago Sun-Times described it as "a saga of courage, craziness, brutality and humor comparable to The Onion Field for storytelling and revelatory
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