The Onion Field - Brossura

Wambaugh, Joseph

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847243517 ISBN 13: 9781847243515

Casa editrice: Quercus Publishing, 2008

Riassunto

Hollywood. 1963. A Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn't have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. Before the night was over, one was dead, two would find themselves facing the death penalty, and the other's life would never be the same again. Fresh from a string of robberies, the car contained two desperate men who got the drop on the two LAPD cops who stopped them, seized their guns and kidnapped them. They then drove to a rural onion field where they decided to execute the cops. One officer was able to escape, but only at the price of his partner's life. Haunted by horrific memories, wracked by guilt, ostracized by his own, and repeatedly tormented by defence attorneys in one retrial after another as the defendants manipulate the quicksilver legal system, this cop suffered emotional meltdown. Wambaugh takes us meticulously through the crime, second by second, and then tells the surviving cop's powerful and moving story: the destruction of a forgotten victim. The Onion Field is Joseph Wambaugh's best-known and most celebrated work. It may be based on a true story, but it reads like a novel, much like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.

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Recensione:

A complex story of tragic proportions...more ambitious than In Cold Blood and equally compelling - New York Times

L'autore:

Joseph Wambaugh served with the LAPD for fourteen years. His first novel, The New Centurions, was published in 1971 to international acclaim and success. He followed this with a series of highly acclaimed novels including The Choirboys and, of course, The Onion Field, which he then personally produced as one of the 'best cop movies ever made'. He also created the hugely popular and influential TV series, Police Story. He is a Grand Master of the Mystery Writers of America and lives in southern California.

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• Editore: Quercus Publishing
• Data di pubblicazione: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1847243517
• ISBN 13: 9781847243515
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 496