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The Blue Knight is the second novel by former Los Angeles Police detective Joseph Wambaugh, written while he was still a serving detective. Published in 1972, it follows the last days on the beat for a veteran LAPD police officer, detailing his thoughts and actions from a first person perspective. [1] The narrative is written in a coarse ...
- Joseph Wambaugh
- 1972
Apr 1, 2008 · The Blue Knight. Paperback – April 1, 2008. 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.
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- Joseph Wambaugh
1,994 ratings86 reviews. 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.
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- Mass Market Paperback
Jan 15, 1973 · The Blue Knight. Mass Market Paperback – January 15, 1973. by Joseph Wambaugh (Author) 4.2 525 ratings. See all formats and editions. “A cop’s-eye view of police brutality . . . courage and compassion . . . fascinating.”—The New York Times. He’s big and brash. His beat is the underbelly of Los Angeles vice—a world of pimps ...
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- Joseph Wambaugh
About The Blue Knight “A cop’s-eye view of police brutality . . . courage and compassion . . . fascinating.”—The New York Times He’s big and brash. His beat is the underbelly of Los Angeles vice—a world of pimps, pushers, winos, whores and killers. He lives each day his way—on the razor’s edge of life.
- Mass Market Paperback
Apr 1, 2008 · The Blue Knight. 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 ...
Apr 1, 2008 · The Blue Knight is a simple tale that humanizes a typical beat cop. At a time when cops were unpopular and routinely tagged as abusive Nazis or ignorant "fuzz" or "pigs," Wambaugh takes the other side, realistically describing the unique ups and downs of an LA beat cop by delivering his good-guy protagonist, Bumper Morgan.
- Joseph Wambaugh
