last update January 03, 2008

Wanda C. Keesey, reviewer

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Hollywood Station
By Joseph Wambaugh
PUB:  Little, Brown, and Company
ISBN:  978-0446401241

Meet the characters that live and work in Hollywood Stations jurisdiction; the cops and the crooks.  Read their quirky and dismal stories. See how they mesh, compliment and/or complicate each other’s lives.

The street bum, a has been trumpet player, two druggies stealing from mail boxes, cops responding to a call about loud music find a body and a dying murderer;  it boggles the mind.  And that ain’t all.  There are prostitutes and dog clubbing cops, mixed with the complex of policemen and criminals, new and seasoned.

You will never read an author who’s more able to depict true life on the streets and behind closed doors.  The feelings, darkly humorous stories and scenes of horror the police face every day.  The reasons they are what they are.

It may not seem like it, but all the stories--all the cops and bad guys/gals come together in the end.  It’s not a racy story of make believe, but a solid story about people--not all good and not all bad, but all doing the best they know how.  A fitting novel to have dripped from Joseph Wambaugh’s pen.

Review by Wanda C. Keesey (author Lost In The Mist, release May 2008)