The Blue Knight
by Wambaugh, Joseph
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good
- ISBN 10
- 0440106079
- ISBN 13
- 9780440106074
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Synopsis
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...
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- ThriftBooks (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- G0440106079I3N00
- Title
- The Blue Knight
- Author
- Wambaugh, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 4
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0440106079
- ISBN 13
- 9780440106074
- Publisher
- Dell
- Place of Publication
- New York, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1973
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