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When Joe Wambaugh was a kid growing up in East Pittsburgh, police officers would hit their sirens when they saw him, in tribute to his father, who was the chief of police in the borough.
More than 50 years later, sirens of another sort are being sounded in his honor. "Hollywood Station," his new book, marks his return to the genre he pioneered, and writers including Robert Crais, Michael Connelly, James Ellroy and George Pelecanos have been effusive in their praise of the man they consider the father of the modern police novel.See the full content of this document
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'Station' Conveys That Doing Good Police Work Is Fun
Until he wrote his debut, "The New Centurions" in 1971, "people wrote police procedurals about how a cop works on the job," Wambaugh says. "I flipped it. My stories get into the cop's head, and I tell how the job works on the cop instead of how the cop works on th...
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