Hollywood Station

By Joseph Wambaugh

Categories: Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Hollywood Station is a 2006 police novel by Joseph Wambaugh, a former LAPD detective and author of The Onion Field and The Choirboys. It was his first novel in more than a decade and began a series about the Hollywood Division. Wambaugh follows the cops of the LAPD's Hollywood station, including surfer partners Flotsam and Jetsam, a veteran sergeant called the Oracle, and an actor-turned-cop. Their shifts are full of strange and funny encounters, while a jewel heist and a meth-addict scheme build toward deadly violence.

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• Stephen King: “The Catch-22 of police novels, Station swings from slapstick to tragedy and back. Wambaugh knows plenty about the underside of Hollywood life — from dopers panhandling as Batman and Darth Vader on the Walk of Fame to strangely lovable meth tweakers.”