Unlike those on 'Dragnet' and other cop shows, Wambaugh's fictional officers were often compromised and deeply flawed ...

He wrote 'The Onion Field,' 'The New Centurions' and 'The Blue Knight' and created the realistic anthology series 'Police ...

Joseph Wambaugh, who wrote the gripping, true-crime bestseller "The Onion Field" and numerous gritty but darkly humorous ...

In novels like “The Glitter Dome” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field,” he took a harsh, unglamorous look at the ...

Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD officer who brought realism to the "Police Story" TV series and books like "The Onion Field, ...

Joseph Wambaugh, a former police officer who became an acclaimed best-selling author, introducing audiences to the gritty, ...

A post made on Friday afternoon to Wambaugh's Facebook page confirmed his death and said "Heaven has gained a new choir boy, ...

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Times have sure changed since the 1970s, the setting for some of Wambaugh's best earlier works such as The New Centurions ... Joseph Wambaugh, read by Christian Rummel. Hachette Audio, unabridged ...

The world's most dangerous secret lies between them.

Author Joseph Wambaugh is 88. Hockey Hall of Fame defenceman Serge Savard is 79. Singer Steve Perry (Journey) is 76. Movie director Jim Jarmusch is 72. Actor John Wesley Shipp (``The Flash ...

In 1971, eleven years after joining the LAPD, Wambaugh saw his first novel, The New Centurions, published by Little, Brown ...