wyszukanych pozycji: 22
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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82,39 zł |
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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208,15 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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195,14 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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121,42 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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104,03 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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199,48 zł |
The Blue Knight
ISBN: 9780440106074 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1973 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. He's big and brash. His beat is the underbelly of LosAngeles vice--a world of pimps, pushers, winos, whores and killers. He lives each day his way--on therazor's edge of life. He was a damn good cop andLAPD detective. For fifteen years he prowled thestreets, solved murders, took his lumps. Now he'sthe hard hitting, tough talking best selling writerwho tells the brutal, true stories of the men whorisk their loves every time a sirenscreams."
He's big and brash. His beat is the underbelly of LosAngeles vice--a world of pimps, pushers, winos, whores and killers. He lives each day his way--on...
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34,65 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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112,75 zł |
Echoes in the Darkness
ISBN: 9780553269321 / Angielski / Miękka / 1987 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "Main Line."Her two children had vanished.The Main Line Murder Case burst upon the headlines--and wasn't resolved for seven years.Now, master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh reconstructs the case from its roots, recounting the details, drama, players and pawns in this bizarre crime that shocked the nation and tore apart a respectable suburban town.The massive FBI and state police investigation ultimately centered on two men.Dr. Jay C. Smith--By day...
On June 25, 1989, the naked corpse of schoolteacher Susan Reinert was found wedged into her hatchback car in a hotel parking lot near Philadelphia's "...
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38,99 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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125,76 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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108,37 zł |
The Delta Star
ISBN: 9780553273861 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1983 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. L.A. Wambaugh-style. A world of cops on the rocks with a twist of murder.
A cheap hooker named Missy Moonbeam takes a fatal dive from the roof of a sleazy hotel. But what's a Caltech phone number doing in her trick book? And how does that connect to a dead private eye and a useless credit card? And what does all that have to do with a Whisky-class Russian sub and the Nobel Prize? Join Joseph Wambaugh's ravaged cops of Rampart Station as they follow a trail of corruption from the world of pimps and crazies to the think-tank labs of the country's top chemistry wizards--where... L.A. Wambaugh-style. A world of cops on the rocks with a twist of murder.
A cheap hooker named Missy Moonbeam takes a fatal dive from the ... |
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34,65 zł |
The Choirboys
ISBN: 9780752882581 / Angielski / Miękka / 2007 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 12 dni roboczych. The classic novel of the LA Police
The classic novel of the LA Police
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50,63 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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82,39 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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99,74 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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69,38 zł |
The Blooding
ISBN: 9780553763300 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 428 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massive 150-man dragnet is launched, the case remains unsolved. Three years later the killer strikes again, raping and strangling teenager Dawn Ashforth only a stone's throw from where Lynda was so brutally murdered. But it will take four years, a scientific breakthrough, the largest manhunt in British crime annals, and the blooding of more than four thousand men before the real killer is found.
Fifteen-year-old Lynda Mann's savagely raped and strangled body is found along a shady footpath near the English village of Narborough. Though a massi...
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108,41 zł |
The Glitter Dome
ISBN: 9780553272598 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 1992 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A grim look at the ugly underbelly of life as a Hollywood copy 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.
A grim look at the ugly underbelly of life as a Hollywood copy It's the wildest bar in Chinatown, run by a proprietor named Wing who will s...
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38,99 zł |
Busting the Brass Ceiling: How a Heroic Female Cop Changed the Face of Policing
ISBN: 9781504096720 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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99,70 zł |