Hollywood Station
Title | Hollywood Station PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2006-11-26 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 075956969X |
For a cop, a night on the job means killing time and trying not to get killed. If you're a cop in Hollywood Division, it also means dealing with the most overwrought, desperate, and deluded criminals anywhere. When you're patrolling Sunset and Hollywood Boulevards, neither a good reputation nor the lessons of scandals past will help you keep your cool, your sanity, or your life when things heat up.The robbery of a Hollywood jewelry store, complete with masks and a hand grenade, quickly connects to a Russian nightclub, an undercover operation gone bloodily wrong, and a cluelessly ambitious pair of tweakers. Putting the pieces together are the sergeant they call the Oracle and his squad of street cops. There's Budgie Polk, a twenty-something firecracker with a four-month-old at home, and Wesley Drubb, a rich boy who joined the force seeking thrills. Fausto Gamboa is the tetchy veteran, and Hollywood Nate is the one who never shuts up about movies. They spend their days in patrol cars and their nights in the underbelly of a city that never sleeps. From their headquarters at Hollywood Station, they see the glamour city for what it is: a field of land mines, where the mundane is dangerous and the dangerous is mundane.
Hollywood Hills
Title | Hollywood Hills PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2010-11-16 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316134627 |
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 fiancée, 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 mansion is Raleigh Dibble, a hapless ex-con trying to put the past behind him. Raleigh is all too happy to be set up for the job -- as butler-cum-watchdog -- by Nigel Wickland, Leona's impeccably dressed art dealer. What Raleigh doesn't realize is that under the natty clothes and posh accent, Nigel has a nefarious plan: two paintings hanging on the mansion's walls will guarantee them more money than they've ever seen. Everyone's dreams are just within reach -- the only problem is, this is Hollywood. A circle of teenage burglars that the media has dubbed The Bling Ring has taken to pillaging the homes of Hollywood celebutants like Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan, and when a pair of drug-addled young copycats stumbles upon Nigel's heist, that's just the beginning of the disaster to come. Soon Hollywood Nate, surfer cops Flotsam and Jetsam, and the rest of the team at Hollywood Station have a deadly situation on their hands. Hollywood Hills is a raucous and dangerous roller coaster ride that showcases Joseph Wambaugh in vintage form.
Full Service
Title | Full Service PDF eBook |
Author | Scotty Bowers |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) |
ISBN | 9780802120076 |
A World War II veteran and Hollywood gas station attendant describes how his good looks and open bisexuality culminated in liaisons with numerous celebrities, providing a chronicle of Hollywood's sexual underground in the 1940s and 1950s.
Station Eleven
Title | Station Eleven PDF eBook |
Author | Emily St. John Mandel |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2014-09-09 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0385353316 |
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • A PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • Set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse—the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity. • Now an original series on HBO Max. • Over one million copies sold! One of the New York Times’s 100 Best Books of the 21st Century Kirsten Raymonde will never forget the night Arthur Leander, the famous Hollywood actor, had a heart attack on stage during a production of King Lear. That was the night when a devastating flu pandemic arrived in the city, and within weeks, civilization as we know it came to an end. Twenty years later, Kirsten moves between the settlements of the altered world with a small troupe of actors and musicians. They call themselves The Traveling Symphony, and they have dedicated themselves to keeping the remnants of art and humanity alive. But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who will threaten the tiny band’s existence. And as the story takes off, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, the strange twist of fate that connects them all will be revealed. Look for Emily St. John Mandel’s bestselling new novel, Sea of Tranquility!
Hollywood Station
Title | Hollywood Station PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 357 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Police |
ISBN | 9781847242396 |
Hollywood Station
Title | Hollywood Station PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
Publisher | BASTEI LÜBBE |
Pages | 436 |
Release | 2008-02-12 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9783404158362 |
Ein Raubüberfall auf einen Juwelier macht der Polizei von Los Angeles zu schaffen. Die eine Spur führt zu einem russischen Nachtclub, die andere zu einer misslungenen Undercover-Aktion der Kollegen. Die ermittelnden Cops unter Leitung des Sergeants, den alle nur das Orakel nennen, stehen unter Erfolgsdruck. Und es zeigt sich bald, dass es im glamourösen L. A. nur an der Oberfläche funkelt, die Schattenseite darunter jedoch umso verderbter und dunkler ist ...Mit diesem Buch hat Joseph Wambaugh, der Begründer des modernen Polizeiromans, nach mehr als zwanzig Jahren ein neues Meisterwerk vorgelegt.
Hollywood Crows
Title | Hollywood Crows PDF eBook |
Author | Joseph Wambaugh |
Publisher | Little, Brown |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2008-03-25 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0316032344 |
In 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: the femme fatale is setting them both up. But Ms. Aziz isn't the only one with a deadly plan.