The New Centurions: The New Centurions: A Novel (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780440164173)

Meet the Los Angeles blues--a new breed of cop. From the baby-faced rookies to hashmark heroes, they are besieged men, dealing daily with a world coming apart. Hunting killers, quelling gang wars, fighting corruption, they risk death every day . . . every night.

Joseph Wambaugh was a damn good cop and LAPD detective. For fifteen years he prowled the streets, solved murders, took his lumps. Now he's the hard-hitting, tough-talking bestselling writer who tells the brutal, true stories of the men who risk their lives every time a siren screams.

Praise for The New Centurions

"As explosive as a gunfight."--The National Review

"Blunt, forceful, vivid . . . superb characterizations."--National Observer

"Wambaugh's policemen are neither angels nor villains."--Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

Author: Joseph Wambaugh
ISBN-10: 0440164176
ISBN-13: 9780440164173
Publisher: Dell
Language: English
Published: 03/01/1987
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.89lbs
Size: 8.08h x 5.00w x 0.91d