Hollywood Station, by Joseph Wambaugh - SIGNED

Hollywood Station, by Joseph Wambaugh. 1995 first edition hardcover. 340 pages, very nice condition. SIGNED with bookmark.

They call him the Oracle. He's got 46 years under his belt and more hash marks than a football field. More importantly, he has a crew of cops to look out for on the streets of Hollywood. From his understaffed office at Hollywood Station, he keeps a close eye on his squad who spend their day in patrol cars, and their nights in the underbelly of a city that never sleeps. As they make their way from the drug dens to dirty street corners, a string of seemingly unrelated events lures the cops of Hollywood Station to their most startling case, reminding them that nothing is too horrific or extreme for Los Angeles.

Joseph Wambaugh (1937 – 2025) was an American writer known for his fictional and nonfictional accounts of police work in the United States. Many of his novels are set in Los Angeles and its surroundings and feature Los Angeles police officers as protagonists. Many of his books were made into feature films or TV movies during the 1970s and 1980s, such as: The New Centurions, The Blue Knight, The Onion Field, The Black Marble, The Choirboys, The Glitter Dome, and Fugitive Nights.

This came from the estate of Linda Deutsch (1943 – 2024), an American journalist who worked for the Associated Press (AP) and covered court cases from 1967 until her retirement in 2014, including the high-profile trials of Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan, O. J. Simpson, and Michael Jackson.