They call him the Oracle. He's got forty-six years under his belt and more hash marks than a football field. But more than that, he's got a crew of cops to look out for on the streets of Hollywood. And the streets of Hollywood aren't like any other streets. Together they spend their days and nights in the city's underbelly, where a string of seemingly unrelated events lures the cops of Hollywood Station to their most startling case yet: Russians,...

"In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law amid the investigation of a horrifying human-trafficking ring. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed as the two are caught in the crosshairs of...

From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, the acclaimed author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may have been, according to U.S. government profilers, "the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century." John Orr rose through the ranks of the Glendale Fire Department to become fire captain and one of southern California's best-known and respected arson investigators....

Joseph Wambaugh returns to glamorous Palm Springs and its ever-mysterious desert to give readers a suspense novel rich in astonishing plot twists, fascinating characters, and the penetrating humor for which he is famous. Three mismatched people--one of whom is a police officer--become involved in the trail of an elusive and dangerous fugitive on a secret mission. Show More Show Less

Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they're haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch, shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call 'choir practice'. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap; each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends, he is afraid of himself.

A forty-year-old ex-cop becomes the target of an unknown assailant after he meets a beautiful divorcee.

A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon an art heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands.

In his newest novel, Joseph Wambaugh presents a major surprise: a tale in which crime is secondary to love, and dogs are sometimes more important than people. For here is the strange world of dog shows, the stranger story of a dognapping extortion scheme, and, right in the middle of it all, the most unusual of love stories.