The Blue Knight
By Joseph Wambaugh.
First published 1972.
Published by Grand
Central Publishing.
Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0446509191
ISBN-13: 978-0446509190
Description:
Ex-cop turned #1 New
York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of
literature with his great early police procedurals. Gritty, luminous, and
ultimately stunning, this novel is Wambaugh at his best – a tale of a street
cop on the hardest beat of his life.
The Blue Knight.
Twenty and two. Those
are the numbers turning in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan:
twenty years on the job, two days before he "pulls the pin" and walks
away from it forever. But on the gritty streets of L.A., people look at Bumper
like some kind of knight in armor – they've plied him with come-ons, hot tips,
and the hard respect a man can't earn anywhere else. Now, with a new job and a
good woman waiting for him, a kinky thief terrorizing L.A.'s choice hotels, and
a tragedy looming, Bumper Morgan is about to face the only thing that can scare
him: the demons that he's been hiding behind his bright and shiny badge...
“Marvelous … realistic,
frightening, touching in its humanity. – Detroit Free Press.
“An
extraordinary piece of craftsmanship.” – Los Angeles Times.
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