The Blue Knight
by Joseph Wambaugh.Published by Grand Central Publishing.
Mass Market Paperback.
ISBN-10: 0446509191
ISBN-13: 978-0446509190
Description:
The Blue Knight.
“Marvelous … realistic, frightening, touching
in its humanity. – Detroit Free Press.
“An extraordinary piece of craftsmanship.” –
Los Angeles Times.
ISBN-13: 978-0446509190
Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling
writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early
police procedurals. Gritty, luminous, and ultimately stunning, this novel is
Wambaugh at his best – a tale of a street cop on the hardest beat of his life.
Twenty and two. Those are the numbers turning
in the mind of William "Bumper" Morgan: twenty years on the job, two
days before he "pulls the pin" and walks away from it forever. But on
the gritty streets of L.A., people look at Bumper like some kind of knight in
armor – they've plied him with come-ons, hot tips, and the hard respect a man
can't earn anywhere else. Now, with a new job and a good woman waiting for him,
a kinky thief terrorizing L.A.'s choice hotels, and a tragedy looming, Bumper
Morgan is about to face the only thing that can scare him: the demons that he's
been hiding behind his bright and shiny badge...