![]() Fine, first edition, first printing, in blue cloth boards, in near-fine (price-clipped, very good crease, some wear to spine top) mylar-protected dust jacket. ![]() This is a boisterous and freewheeling novel, as chillingly authentic as only a veteran police officer could make it.Author's third novel, following THE NEW CENTURIONS and THE BLUE KNIGHT, and the nonfiction bestseller, THE ONION FIELD. 10 of 12 found this interesting Share this This movie was released two years after the novel was published. His first novel, 'The New Centurions' was published in 1971 when Wambaugh was 34. He began to write novels about the police force in 1967, at the age of thirty. This is the story of men endangered ultimately not by the violence of their jobs but by their choice of off-duty entertainment. Joseph Wambaugh was a California policeman for fourteen years (1960-1974). The five sets of partners on the night-watch are men of varying temperaments and backgrounds, but they are joined together by the job and they have elected to spend their pre-dawn hours in MacArthur Park in relaxing drink and sex sessions they call 'choir practice'. ![]() 1977 by Joseph Wambaugh (Author) 509 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover £150.00 1 Used from £52. He was a police officer with the LAPD for 14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels. ![]() They are the Choirboys - the patrol squad of the LA Police attempting to stay sane in an insane world. Joseph Wambaugh The Choirboys Paperback 1 Jan. Joseph Wambaugh is the hard-hitting bestselling writer who conveys the passionate immediacy of a special world. ![]()
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