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

The author, who previously lived in Newport Beach, died in Rancho Mirage after having esophageal cancer, a friend said.

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

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

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

In this latest venture into true crime, Wambaugh ( The Onion Field ; Echoes in the Darkness ... earlier works such as The New Centurions ... Joseph Wambaugh, read by Christian Rummel.

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, ...

The group drives out to a deserted onion field in Bakersfield, California, and one officer is shot while the other escapes. The remainder of the film explores the nature of the American justice ...

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