Hollywood Crows: A Novel
by Joseph Wambaugh
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Author: Joseph WambaughEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-01
ISBN: 044650582X
Number of pages: 431
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: It ain't Dragnet....
Summary: 5 Stars
In movies and in books, sequels are commonplace, but sometimes they appear in unlikely places. There's never been a true sequel to a James Bond movie, merely subsequent movies featuring the same character, yet later this year, that rule will change with A Quantum of Solace, which directly follows up on Casino Royale. Similarly, Joseph Wambaugh has never really been one for sequels, but that has changed with Hollywood Crows, which features the further adventures of the cops of Hollywood Station.
Crows are the nickname given to cops who are part of the Community Relations Office, a division of the LAPD that focuses, naturally enough, on developing a better relationship with the community. The Crows focus on quality-of-life complaints such as noise violations. Two of the Hollywood Station cops have moved on to the CRO: Ronnie Sinclair, a well-meaning policewoman who needs to transfer out of her current job and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, who's more interested in being a movie star than cleaning up the streets.
As with many of Wambaugh's books, this book is more character-driven than plot driven as it deals with many cop characters and their adventures and misadventures. For example, there are the two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam, the hard-hitting Gert Von Braun and the rookie Gilberto Ponce who can't convince anyone he's not Hispanic. Gone but not forgotten was the mentor and unofficial leader of the station, the Oracle. Instead, there is now the supervisor Sergeant Treakle, a bureaucrat who screws up every time he tries to anything cop-like.
There is a plot, however, involving the nasty divorce between Ali and Margot Aziz. Ali is a shady nightclub owner who recruits a drug-addled petty thief to burglarize Margot's home, though there is a more sinister agenda afoot. The beautiful Margot has schemes of her own, part of which involves seducing Hollywood Nate, and if that doesn't work, using another cop instead.
Prior to writing Hollywood Station, Wambaugh had a long hiatus from novel writing. That book showed he wasn't rusty and the sequel shows that the quality wasn't a fluke. Hollywood Crows is another top-notch novel sure to please both those new to Wambaugh and his old fans as well. With plenty of dark humor and suspense, this is crime fiction at its best.
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