Born on this day – Recommended reading - The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh:

Joseph Wambaugh

Writer

January 22, 1937 – February 28, 2025

Credits:

Books:

A Joseph Wambaugh Omnibus (2008); Echoes in the Darkness (1987); Finnegan's Week (1993); Fire Lover (2002); Floaters (1996); Four Complete Novels (1988); Fugitive Nights (1992); Harbor Nocturne (2012); Hollywood Crows (2008); Hollywood Hills (2010); Hollywood Moon (2009); Hollywood Station (2006); In the Shadow of the Master (2008); Last Seen off Stingray Point (2014); Lines and Shadows (1984); Silent Night, Deadly Night (2016); The Black Marble (1977); The Blooding (1989); The Blue Knight (1972); The Choirboys (1975); The Delta Star (1983); The Glitter Dome (1981); The Golden Orange (1990); The New Centurions (1970); The Onion Field (1973); The Secrets Of Harry Bright (1984).

The Onion Field

by Joseph Wambaugh

Published 1973 

ISBN-10: 0385341598

ISBN-13: 978-0385341592

Description:

This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.

Joseph Wambaugh. A former LAPD detective and perennial bestselling author, he is the cops’ poet laureate, and this is the true story he was born to tell.

“A distinguished ‘factual novel.’ A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psychological.” – Truman Capote.

Movies and television:

A Night at the Movies: Cops & Robbers and Crime Writers (2013); Bicentennial Minutes (1974); Case Reopened (1999); Cop on the Beat (1975); Cop Stories: The Making of Richard Fleischer's 'The New Centurions' (2016); Dinah! (1975); Echoes in the Darkness (1987); Entertainment Tonight (1994); Forensic Files (1996–2004); Forensic Firsts (2012); Friday Night, Saturday Morning (1980); From the Files of Joseph Wambaugh: A Jury of One (1992); Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert (1993); History's Mysteries (2006); Inside TV Land (2002); Joe Forrester (1975); Mania (2007); Murder by the Book (2007); Police Story (1973–1979); Police Story: Confessions of a Lady Cop (1980); Police Story: The Freeway Killings (1987); Ring of Truth: The Onion Field (2002); Straight Time: He Wrote It for Criminals (1978); The Black Marble (1980); The Blue Knight (1973); The Blue Knight / TV series (1975–1976); The Choirboys (1977); The David Frost Show (1971); The Dean Martin Show (1974); The Glitter Dome (1984); The Irv Kupcinet Show (1975); The Larry Solway Show (1975); The Merv Griffin Show (1973); The Mike Douglas Show (1971); The New Centurions (1972); The Onion Field (1979); The Pat Sajak Show (1989); The Sig Sakowicz Show (1971); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1971–1983); This Is L.A.P.D. (1985–1996); Today (1980); Unusual Suspects (2010); We, the Writer (1996); Wogan (1989).