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The Onion Field by Joseph Wambaugh (Paperback, 2008)
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A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. One officer was able to escape, but only at the price of his partner's life. The Onion Field is Joseph Wambaugh's best-known and most celebrated work.
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Hollywood. 1963. A Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn't have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. Before the night was over, one was dead, two would find themselves facing the death penalty, and the other's life would never be the same again. Fresh from a string of robberies, the car contained two desperate men who got the drop on the two LAPD cops who stopped them, seized their guns and kidnapped them. They then drove to a rural onion field where they decided to execute the cops. One officer was able to escape, but only at the price of his partner's life. Haunted by horrific memories, wracked by guilt, ostracized by his own, and repeatedly tormented by defence attorneys in one retrial after another as the defendants manipulate the quicksilver legal system, this cop suffered emotional meltdown. Wambaugh takes us meticulously through the crime, second by second, and then tells the surviving cop's powerful and moving story: the destruction of a forgotten victim. The Onion Field is Joseph Wambaugh's best-known and most celebrated work. It may be based on a true story, but it reads like a novel, much like Truman Capote's In Cold Blood.Product Identifiers
PublisherQuercus Publishing
ISBN-139781847243515
eBay Product ID (ePID)90230533
Product Key Features
Book TitleThe Onion Field
AuthorJoseph Wambaugh
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicBooks
Publication Year2008
Number of Pages496 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height180mm
Item Width110mm
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJoseph Wambaugh
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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- 24 Apr, 2024
A good true crime tale
A must read - a true story easy to follow and a sympathetic story telling - watch the film if you have read the book - it is close to the sameVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
