Hollywood Crows: A Novel

Hollywood Crows: A Novel
by Joseph Wambaugh

Hollywood Crows: A Novel
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Author: Joseph Wambaugh
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-03-25
ISBN: 0316025283
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company

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Book Review: Stuck In Cliche Ridden 70's
Summary: 1 Stars

I unfortunately read the ghastly Hollywood Station last year. Wambaugh is apparently mourning the loss of the 70's when cops were fat, coarse, sexual harrassing, donut-eating, hard drinking uneducated lost souls who were at a loss of what to do for a living when they got out of the military service. And he made sure everyone knew every facet of these character flaws.

Today's cops are a totally different breed. Most departments won't look at your application unless you have a college degree; these young men and women are physically fit and they have gone into the work because they love it. Wambaugh wouldn't even recognize these modern people as cops I'll bet.

I won't read this book because it'll be nothing but cliches like Hollywood Station from what I've read. Wambaugh needs to scrap his style of writing and become a male Ann Rule. Take an existing and interesting true crime story and wring every last detail out of it. Example upcoming: the rogue cop Peterson who's 2nd murdered wife's body has yet to be found. This would be perfect for Wambaugh when and if it goes to trial.

Otherwise it's appearing Wambaugh is lamenting his youth with LAPD and keeps going back to it.

Yawn.....!

Summary of Hollywood Crows: A Novel

When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn't the only one with a deadly plan.
In HOLLYWOOD CROWS, Wambaugh returns once again to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a tightly plotted and darkly funny ride-along through Los Angeles with a cast of flawed cops and eccentric lowlifes they won't soon forget.

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