The Choirboys: A Novel - Softcover

A group of young LAPD officers on the nightwatch struggle to deal with the pressures and dangers of the job by engaging in diverse forms of after-hours debauchery, only to find themselves endangered not by their work but by their choice of off-duty entertainment. Reprint.

Joseph Wambaugh is the hard-hitting bestselling writer who conveys the passionate immediacy of a special world. He was a police officer with the LAPD for 14 years before retiring in 1974, during which time he published three bestselling novels. Over the course of his career, Wambaugh has been the author of more than 20 works of fiction and nonfiction, all written in his gritty, distinctive noir-ish style. He's won multiple Edgar Awards, and several of his books have been made into feature films and TV movies. He lives in California with his wife.