Hollywood Moon A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Joseph Wambaugh Christian Rummel Hachette Audio Books
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There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast - or 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 L.A.
Hollywood Moon A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Joseph Wambaugh Christian Rummel Hachette Audio Books
Joseph Wambaugh is the cop's author. He is the writer who tells it like it is through his knowledge as a former police officer and his contacts in the force over many years.In this book, we get to see the characters from his two earlier Hollywood books and it is a treat, they are a little better than they were earlier and a little fresher in my opinion. The humour is still there but there is that underlying darkness always waiting to come out.
Read this book if you like the low lives of certain criminals and to better understand the lives of police officers. There is humour and drama, one aspect of Wambaugh that is unchanged over the decades of his brilliant work is that he always has a sting in the tail in his books so be prepared.
Good stuff as always, Mr Wambaugh!!
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Hollywood Moon A Novel (Audible Audio Edition) Joseph Wambaugh Christian Rummel Hachette Audio Books Reviews
Joseph Wambaugh, who is pushing 75 now, has been acclaimed as a writer of both novels and nonfiction about police and crime in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years. While still at work as a detective sergeant in 1971, his first novel, The New Centurions, was published. It was nearly that long ago (1973) when I first read The Onion Field, his true-crime story of the kidnapping of two L.A. police officers and its profoundly sad consequences. Though most of Wambaugh's work has been fiction, it was only a few years ago that he returned to writing novels about the LAPD. First came Hollywood Station in 2007, followed in 2008 and 2009 by two closely related novels, Hollywood Crows and Hollywood Moon. Perhaps more are on the way in this outstanding series of books.
Wambaugh is superbly talented. His ear for dialogue, his psychological insight, his knowledge about both criminals and police, his gift of language -- all become unmistakably clear in these three engrossing novels. He has mastered the craft of writing fiction, but these books transcend craft with credible, full-bodied characters and graceful style.
What is most compelling in this saga of the men and women of Hollywood Station are the recurring characters. Read these books, and you'll come to know and appreciate the two surfer cops, known only as Flotsam and Jetsam. For example, Jetsam says to his partner about a bowling alley that has come up in one of many conversations about how the two surfers can meet women, "I mean, there's gotta be opportunities on those lanes for coppers as coolaphonic and hormonally imaginative as the almost four hundred pounds of male heat riding in this car." And that's one of the more easily understood passages in Flotsam and Jetsam's never-ending dialogue. Then there's Hollywood Nate Weiss, an aspiring actor with a love for mirrors and hopes for a SAG card; The Oracle, a 46-year veteran sergeant with the insight of a sensitive psychiatrist; a Ukranian-immigrant detective whose inventive use of the English language would do Mrs. Malaprop proud; and several strong, smart women officers, all struggling to keep their pride and their patience in a blatantly sexist environment.
And those are just the cops! The miscreants include street people like Trombone Teddy, formerly a well-known jazz sideman; crystal meth "tweakers" and other addicts, many of them eking out a meager existence by wearing Batman, Superman, Hulk, or Spiderman costumes and cadging tips from camera-wielding tourists near Graumann's Chinese Theater; and the ex-cons and other ambitious operators whose imaginative schemes are the stuff of the clever plots in these three novels. In fact, you'll probably learn more than enough about the identity-theft scams and other cons Wambaugh describes to scare the living daylights out of you.
(From Mal Warwick's Blog on Books)
In a blurb on the cover, Stephen King refers to HOLLYWOOD MOON as "Joseph's Wambaugh's best yet." That's stretching things a bit; it's not as good as THE NEW CENTURIONS or THE CHOIRBOYS or even THE BLUE KNIGHTS, but it is the best of the "Hollywood" trio he's written since he's been back on the scene.
MOON is better than the other two in that, here, Wambaugh is more focused on the story; If there's a drawback to the two previous Hollywood novels, it's that they're too episodic. There's some of that here Flotsam and Jetsam stop a driver who isn't wearing pants, or underwear. But, for the most part Wambaugh centers on conman Dewey Gleason and his wife, Eunice, who are into stealing credit cards, real estate frauds and a thousand other hustles. Dewey feels unappreciated, and Eunice keeps comparing him to her former husband who is doing fifteen years in the clink. Dewey employs two "runners," Tristan and Jerzy. Tristan is a whole lot smarter than most of Dewey's runners, and Jerzy is a homicidal psycho. The three soon team up against Eunice.
The "B" story involves Malcolm Rojas, a handsome teenager with mother issues. He's been attacking women with a box cutter, but he's also a candidate for one of Dewey's henchmen and Eunice becomes enamored of the curly-haired Malcolm.
Meanwhile, the boys and girls at Hollywood station are hot in pursuit. They're not as quirky as they have been in the past. Hollywood Nate is now thirty-seven and beginning to realize that his acting career is pretty much a pipe dream. Flotsam and Jetsam, the surfer dudes, act more like cops. In the process of following the Dewey story, we learn a lot about how crooks steal credit cards. They steal the mail for one thing, and they use something called a skimmer, attaching it to gas station pumps. If all of this is true, you ought to consider paying cash from now on.
Of course, Wambaugh also has the woman cop angle going on. One of the watch commanders, Sergeant Hermann, is a woman. We get an entire soliloquy from her when she explains the pitfalls women cops have to deal with. No fewer than three of the teams are male/female, and Dana Vaughn, Hollywood Nate's partner, plays a key role in the resolution.
HOLLYWOOD MOON may not be as good as THE NEW CENTURIONS, but it's instructive and entertaining, and it'll provide a chuckle or two during this downturn in the economy.
Joseph Wambaugh is the cop's author. He is the writer who tells it like it is through his knowledge as a former police officer and his contacts in the force over many years.
In this book, we get to see the characters from his two earlier Hollywood books and it is a treat, they are a little better than they were earlier and a little fresher in my opinion. The humour is still there but there is that underlying darkness always waiting to come out.
Read this book if you like the low lives of certain criminals and to better understand the lives of police officers. There is humour and drama, one aspect of Wambaugh that is unchanged over the decades of his brilliant work is that he always has a sting in the tail in his books so be prepared.
Good stuff as always, Mr Wambaugh!!
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