Hollywood Crows

Overview

Seduction, black-market booze, burglary, and murder--not your ordinary fare for a division of peacekeeping officers, but Hollywood isn't your ordinary town. When a couple of LAPD cops find themselves caught up with a certain femme fatale, they're in for trouble. Meet Margot Aziz, the astonishingly beautiful, soon-to-be-ex wife of Ali Aziz, proprietor of a Sunset Boulevard strip club. Margot would like nothing better than to be rid of her husband, who has his diamond-studded fingers in multiple shady business deals--and who wants his lovely wife dead.

But Ali has a problem: Margot's got custody of half his fortune and, more important, his beloved son. Margot knows how to get what she wants--but how far will she go to get it? Enter Hollywood Nate Weiss, a cop hungry for stardom and looking for love. Duty bound to serve and protect, Nate is more than willing to help a woman in trouble. But in Hollywood, nothing is as it seems, and he isn't the only one on Margot's case . . .

Nate works alongside a squad of L.A.'s finest, including a duo of suntanned surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam, tenacious women officers Cat Song and Ronnie Sinclair, and the kindly veteran Bix Ramstead, who Ronnie laments may be the last monogamous male at Hollywood Station. As they'll discover, Hollywood always deceives you, and love always comes packing heat.

With his distinctive brand of mordant humor and intimate knowledge of the world of cops, Wambaugh delivers another outrageously entertaining and uncommonly poignant novel with Hollywood Crows.

Editorial Reviews

Gallows humor and the grim realities of street police work coexist uneasily in this less than stellar follow-up to Hollywood Station (2006) from MWA Grand Master Wambaugh. Nathan Weiss, known as Hollywood Nate for his acting ambitions, and his friend Bix Ramstead are now assigned to the LAPD's Community Relations Office, which handles quality-of-life issues and whose members are referred to as Crows. Weiss and Ramstead both become ensnared by a stunning femme fatale, Margot Aziz, who's in the middle of a contentious divorce. Aziz is trying to gain the upper hand over her husband, who operates a seedy nightclub but stays on the good side of law enforcement with well-timed donations to police charities. Aziz's scheming follows a fairly predictable path, and there's not much suspense about the outcome. Through the eyes of an eccentric collection of beat cops, Wambaugh gives a compelling picture of what policing is like under the federal monitor appointed to oversee the real LAPD after the Rampart corruption scandal, but characterizations are on the thin side and some readers may find the callous cruelty off-putting. -- PUBLISHERS WEEKLY.

Author Information

Bio of Joseph Wambaugh

Writer Joseph Wambaugh was born in East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on January 22, 1937. He joined the Marines right out of high school, but later earned both a B. A. and M. A. from California State College in Los Angeles. He worked for the Los Angeles Police Department from 1960 to 1974. His first novel was The New Centurions (1971) and several subsequent novels have been award winners. The Onion Field won an Edgar Award (1984), and Lines and Shadows won the Rodolfo Walsh Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers (1989). He has worked creatively on several film and television projects, including Police Story, The Black Marble, The Choirboys and The Blue Knight. 030

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Additional Info

Imprint

Hachette Book Group USA

Filesize

632.34 KB

Number of Pages

352

eBook ISBN

0316032344