Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh

[Critiq]

There are plenty of police procedurals in the land of fiction thrillers but I can't think of another author who writes with such an authoritative voice. Wambaugh's picture of what life is like on the personal-professional level for Hollywood's band in blue and the criminal hustlers who keep them in business smacks of experience. His view of tinsel town is full of crackheads, tweakers (meth-addicts), Serbo-Croatian criminals, dope pushers, whores and all the rest who pursue an illegal buck. As someone who drives the streets he describes I have to say, "Here?! Y'never woulda' knowed it."