wyszukanych pozycji: 17
Hollywood Crows
ISBN: 9780316026710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 608 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A super follow-up to Hollywood Station, Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a darkly funny ride-along with a cast of flawed LAPD cops and eccentric lowlifes you won't forget.
When LAPD cops Hollywood Nate and Bix Rumstead find themselves caught up with bombshell Margot Aziz, they think they're just having some fun. But in Hollywood, nothing is ever what it seems. To them, Margot is a harmless socialite, stuck in the middle of an ugly divorce from the nefarious nightclub-owner Ali Aziz. What Nate and Bix don't know is that Margot's no helpless victim:... A super follow-up to Hollywood Station, Wambaugh returns to the beat he knows best, taking readers on a darkly funny ride-along with a cast ...
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199,08 zł |
Hollywood Hills
ISBN: 9780316130585 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 528 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy.
LAPD veteran "Hollywood Nate" Weiss could take or leave the opulence, but he wouldn't say no to onscreen fame. He may get his shot when he catches the appreciative eye of B-list director Rudy Ressler, and his troublemaking fiancee, Leona Brueger, the older-but-still-foxy widow of a processed-meat tycoon. Nate tries to elude her crafty seductions, but consents to keep an eye on their estate in the Hollywood Hills while they're away. Also minding the... The legendary Hollywood Hills are home to wealth, fame, and power--passing through the neighborhood, it's hard not to get a little greedy.
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186,64 zł |
The Secrets of Harry Bright
ISBN: 9780553762877 / Angielski / Miękka / 1986 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Raucous cops, outlaw bikers, and suntanned celebrities collide in a steamy landscape swirling with natural beauty and unnatural death. Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man's son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert to take on the case. But what begins for Blackpool as an investigation sandwiched between golf games in nearby Palm Springs quickly...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Raucous cops, outlaw bikers, and suntanned celebrities collide in a steamy landscape swirling with natural beaut...
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78,80 zł |
The Black Marble
ISBN: 9781453234860 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 354 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge against men. These unlikely partners are assigned the strange case of a stolen show dog being held for ransom. In this bittersweet tale that the Los Angeles Times called "terrifying and romantic," the partners will find much more than they ever could have imagined. Cosmopolitan called it "fast, colorful and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining." "Terrifying . . . romantic . . . beautifully constructed." -Los Angeles Times...
Russian-American detective A. A. Valnikov is a burned-out homicide detective who gets teamed with Natalie Zimmerman, twice-divorced with a grudge agai...
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103,65 zł |
The Choirboys
ISBN: 9780752882581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The classic novel of the LA Police
The classic novel of the LA Police
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52,66 zł |
Harbor Nocturne
ISBN: 9780802120540 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2012 / 486 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD detective, multiple New York Times best-seller, and MWA Grand Master, is known as the father of the modern police novel and now, in Harbor Nocturne, he has produced one of the outstanding books of the year. Some LAPD characters from the acclaimed Hollywood Station series are here: the surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam, aspiring actor Hollywood Nate Weiss, and young Britney Small, along with new members of the midwatch, all gamely coping with the wackiness of Hollywood. The story begins in the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the...
Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD detective, multiple New York Times best-seller, and MWA Grand Master, is known as the father of the modern police nov...
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66,36 zł |
Lines and Shadows
ISBN: 9780553763256 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The true story only Joseph Wambaugh could tell. A band of California cops set loose in no-man's-land to come home heroes. Or come home dead. Not since Joseph Wambaugh's bestselling The Onion Field has there been a true police story as fascinating, as totally gripping as Lines and Shadows. The media hailed them as heroes. Others denounced them as lawless renegades. A squad of tough cops called the Border Crime Task Force. A commando team sent to patrol the snake-infested no-man's-land south of San Diego. Not to apprehend the thousands of illegal aliens slipping into...
The true story only Joseph Wambaugh could tell. A band of California cops set loose in no-man's-land to come home heroes. Or come home dead. |
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95,39 zł |
The Blue Knight
ISBN: 9780316921466 / Angielski / Twarda / 1972 / 348 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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,... Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Gri...
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116,13 zł |
The Glitter Dome
ISBN: 9781453234877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. It s the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle there with off-duty LAPD cops, including homicide detectives Martin Welborn and Al Mackey, who get assigned the case of a murdered Hollywood studio boss who may have been involved in some very strange and dangerous filmmaking. Hilarious at times, heartbreaking at others, this book was likened by theNew York Daily News to a one-two combination that leaves the reader reeling. "
It s the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will steal your bar change every chance he gets. On payday the groupies mingle t...
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99,50 zł |
Hollywood Moon
ISBN: 9780316053815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 560 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Bestseller Wambaugh's entertaining third Hollywood Station novel (after Hollywood Crows) provides lots of laughs and gasps from all of your favorite characters.
There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast--rather than the best--in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo--a smooth-talking player in dreads... Bestseller Wambaugh's entertaining third Hollywood Station novel (after Hollywood Crows) provides lots of laughs and gasps from all of your ...
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190,79 zł |
The Black Marble
ISBN: 9780440613961 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. He is a damned good cop--a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner--twice divorced, nursing a grudge against men, obsessed by the awful temptation of love. Praise for The Black Marble " Joseph] Wambaugh sidesteps all the cliches."--Baltimore Sun "Superb . . . his best book "--St. Louis Post-Dispatch "First-rate . . . fast, colorful, and gripping . . . as touching as it is breathlessly entertaining."--Cosmopolitan
He is a damned good cop--a burned-out homicide detective wrapped around a Smith & Wesson .38 and a vodka bottle. She is his partner--twice divorced, n...
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95,39 zł |
The New Centurions
ISBN: 9780440164173 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1987 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Meet the Los Angeles blues--a new breed of cop. From the baby-faced rookies to hashmark heroes, they are besieged men, dealing daily with a world coming apart. Hunting killers, quelling gang wars, fighting corruption, they risk death every day . . . every night. Joseph Wambaugh was a damn good cop and LAPD detective. For fifteen years he prowled the streets, solved murders, took his lumps. Now he's the hard-hitting, tough-talking bestselling writer who tells the brutal, true stories of the men who risk their lives every time a siren screams. Praise for The New Centurions...
Meet the Los Angeles blues--a new breed of cop. From the baby-faced rookies to hashmark heroes, they are besieged men, dealing daily with a world comi...
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37,29 zł |
Finnegan's Week
ISBN: 9780553763249 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - When a pair of lowlife thieves cross the border into Tijuana, three tenacious cops cross the line. Fin Finnegan is a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor who's passing midlife crisis and heading straight for midlife meltdown. The last thing he wants when he's gearing up for a TV audition is a routine truck theft case. The last thing he needs after three messy divorces is a sexy female investigator assigned to the case. Fin's abysmal luck is holding out--he's got not only the theft investigation but an uneasy alliance with two strong-willed...
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - When a pair of lowlife thieves cross the border into Tijuana, three tenacious cops cross the line. Fin F...
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78,80 zł |
The New Centurions
ISBN: 9780316921459 / Angielski / Twarda / 1971 / 388 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedurals. Here in his classic debut novel, Wambaugh presents a stunning, raw, and unforgettable depiction of life behind the thin blue line. In a class of new police recruits, Augustus Plebesly is fast and scared. Roy Fehler is full of ideals. And Serge Duran is an ex-marine running away from his Chicano childhood. In a few weeks they'll put on the blue uniform of the LAPD. In months they'll know how to interpret the... Ex-cop turned #1 New York Times bestselling writer Joseph Wambaugh forged a new kind of literature with his great early police procedur... |
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120,28 zł |
Busting the Brass Ceiling
ISBN: 9780999858486 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 298 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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66,32 zł |
The Onion Field
ISBN: 9780385341592 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
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 execu...
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70,51 zł |