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    The Glitter Dome , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 645min
    In his finest, most compelling blend of wild humor and powerful drama, Joseph Wambaugh leads us into the Hollywood scene to demonstrate the effects of that heady, amoral world on four sets of police partners enmeshed in the glamour and the grime, the hustle and the horror. They live and work in a dizzying mix of moguls and starlets, elaborate parties, outrageous and sordid actions; a place where sex and drugs are open and the big deals are undercover. A visit to The Glitter Dome - their after-hours watering hole, where the lights are kaleidoscopic and groupies plentiful - is the only way to come down from the excitement and fear of the day. Suddenly, their grim world of vice, drugs, and child abuse is interrupted by the murder of a major studio’s president. And two veteran homicide detectives discover the alarming extent to which they, too, have been seduced by Hollywood. Once again, in the boisterous and riveting tradition of The Choirboys, Joseph Wambaugh creates a group of unexpected and unforgettable characters who inhabit the shadow world he knows so well, where the line between cop and criminal is destroyed. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Adam Verner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000613/bk_high_000613_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Fugitive Nights , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 599min
    Joseph Wambaugh returns to glamorous Palm Springs and its ever-mysterious desert to give listeners a suspense novel rich in astonishing plot twists, fascinating characters, and the penetrating humor for which he is famous. Three mismatched people - one of whom is a police officer - become involved in the trail of an elusive and dangerous fugitive on a secret mission. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Drummond. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005957/bk_adbl_005957_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Picket Fences - Tatort Gartenzaun - Staffel 1-4 DVD-Box
    Willkommen in Rome, Wisconsin, einer oberflächlich betrachtet vollkommen normalen amerikanischen Kleinstadt. Bei genauerer Betrachtung steckt sie jedoch voller absonderlicher Kriminalfälle, welche Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt) und seine Hilfssheriffs Kenny Lacos (Costas Mandylor) und Maxine Steward (Lauren Holly) schwer auf Trab halten. Schließlich landen die bizarren Fälle vor dem örtlichen Gericht unter dem Vorsitz des kauzigen und über 70-jährigen Richters Boone (Ray Walston), der sich dabei nur zu oft mit dem streitbaren Original und Anwalt Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel) konfrontiert sieht. Diesem ist kein Fall zu abstrus, um ihn nicht auszudiskutieren. Neben all den Kuriositäten fällt das normale Familienleben, etwa im Hause von Sheriff Brock und seiner Frau, der Ärztin Jill (Kathy Baker), genauso wenig normal aus, wie das Erwachsenwerden der Dorfjugend von Rome (u. a. Holly Marie Combs)...
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    Floaters , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 549min
    Who else but Joseph Wambaugh could write "a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book" that is also acclaimed as "one of this season's best crime novels"? That's how The New York Times Book Review and Time, respectively, described his last novel, Finnegan's Week. Nobody writes a faster, funnier, more satisfying tale of cops and criminals, the high life and lowlifes that Wambaugh - and Floaters is his sharpest yet. Mick Fortney and his partner Leeds manage to cruise above the standard police stress - pools of coffee and Pepto-Bismol - they're water cops in the "Club Harbor Unit", manning a patrol boat on San Diego's Mission Bay. A typically rough day's detail consists of scoping out body-sculpted beauties on pleasure craft, rescuing boating bozos who've run aground, jeering at lifeguards, and hauling in the occasional floater who comes to the surface. But now their days are anything but typical, because the America's Cup international sailing regattas have come to town and suddenly San Diego is swarming with yacht crazies of every nationality, the cuppies who want to love them, and the looky-look tourists, racing spies, scam artists, and hookers who all want their piece of the action. It's the outstanding body and jaunty smile - full of mischief, full of hell - of one cuppie, a particularly fiery redhead named Blaze, that gets Leeds and Fortney's attention. First Leeds drowns in frustratingly unrequited boozy love from afar. Then, with her increasingly odd behavior, Blaze tweaks every one of their cop instincts, alerting them that something's not quite right on the waterfront. Indeed, Blaze will soon lead Detective Anne Zorn and Mick Fortney along a bizarre criminal trail that would be hilarious if it didn't wind up just as nasty as it gets, with a pair of murders right on the eve of the biggest sailing race of all. Filled with all of Joseph Wambaugh's trademark skills - laugh-out-loud writing, crackling dialo ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Todd McLaren. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/005952/bk_adbl_005952_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Harbor Nocturne , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 636min
    When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from San Pedro Harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, their lives are forever changed. An unexpectedly tender and moving love story develops among the cops and criminals who occupy the harbor, and soon Dinko and Lita are caught up in terror and peril through no fault of their own. Some LAPD characters from Wambaugh’s acclaimed “Hollywood Station” series are here: the surfer cops “Flotsam and Jetsam,” aspiring actor “Hollywood Nate” Weiss, and young Britney Small, along with new members of the midwatch, all gamely coping with the wackiness of Hollywood. It’s a tale only Wambaugh could have told, with his trademark dark humor and unflinching eye for detail. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: R.C. Bray. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/high/000641/bk_high_000641_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Son of Gun in Cheek , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 432min
    The prolific Pronzini not only writes a lot of mysteries (The Nameless Detective series), he obviously reads a lot of them too - but not all of what he reads is good. His 1982 Gun in Cheek was a wickedly humorous collection of unbelievable plots, poor characterization, unlikely language and just plain dumbness in his favorite genre; here he presents another collection, subtitled an affectionate guide to more of the 'worst' in mystery fiction." Some writers (Harry Stephen Keeler, Michael Avallone) are roasted at length, and some are sideswiped, including even fine writers experiencing temporary lapses (Ed McBain, Joseph Wambaugh). Not perhaps for the general reader, this volume should appeal to addicts who, like Pronzini, will apparently read anything labeled "mystery". Sex, pulp mags, B-movies and "The Alternative Hall of Fame" are featured in wittily titled chapters with a postmortem bibliography." (Publishers Weekly) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Chet Williamson. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/000361/bk_acx0_000361_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Collision Course , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 774min
    Ambition, murder, politics. Elements in the tragic collision of two lives. Anthony "JoJo" Machado, decorated marine combat veteran, and Detective Sergeant Josh Williams, East Providence Police Department. Two men inextricably linked by circumstances beyond their control. One will die. One will face the loss of everything he holds dear. Collision Course is the riveting story of blind political ambition trampling truth. US Attorney Robert Collucci, candidate for the US Senate, will stop at nothing to succeed, using the rage of racial inequality to fuel his quest for power. Williams and Machado are pawns in this game of politics. There is only one person standing between the truth and the power of the government. A sarcastic, misogynistic former Green Beret defense lawyer named Harrison "Hawk" Bennett, who risks his career to set things right. Collision Course is Joseph Wambaugh meets Mayberry RFD. Big-city drama intermixed with small-city politics. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Roberto Scarlato. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/047859/bk_acx0_047859_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Spirit Sickness , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 718min
    In the tradition of Tony Hillerman and Joseph Wambaugh comes this suspense thriller reuniting Bureau of Indian Affairs Criminal Investigator Emmett Quanah Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed, two Native American cops torn between their heritage and the law.A fire-gutted police cruiser found in a remote part of the Navajo reservation bears witness to a horrific crime. Inside are the bodies of a tribal patrolman and his wife. As BIA Investigator Emmett Parker and FBI Special Agent Anna Turnipseed know, a cop's murder is never simple, raising countless questions and suspicions. When another murder is discovered, the case explodes into an otherworldly realm.Both Parker, a Comanche, and Turnipseed, a Modoc, are well acquainted with the eerie shadow land between native myth and modern homicide investigation. Now they will have to touch minds with a murderer who has woven personal madness with Navajo myth to create his own reality - and with it the need to kill and kill again. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Stefan Rudnicki. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/blak/003090/bk_blak_003090_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Hollywood Moon: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 705min
    There's a saying at Hollywood station that the full moon brings out the beast - or rather than the best - in the precinct's citizens. One moonlit night, LAPD veteran Dana Vaughn and "Hollywood" Nate Weiss, a struggling-actor-turned cop, get a call about a young man who's been attacking women. Meanwhile, two surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam, keep bumping into an odd, suspicious duo - a smooth-talking player in dreads and a crazy-eyed, tattooed biker. No one suspects that all three dubious characters might be involved in something bigger, more high-tech, and much more illegal. After a dizzying series of twists, turns, and chases, the cops will find they've stumbled upon a complex web of crime where even the criminals can't be sure who's conning whom. Wambaugh once again masterfully gets inside the hearts and minds of the cops whose jobs have them constantly on the brink of danger. By turns heart-wrenching, exhilarating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Hollywood Moon is his most thrilling and deeply affecting ride yet through the singular streets of L.A. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christian Rummel. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000371/bk_hach_000371_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Pranked Straight , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 486min
    Ex-con ruins racist gang! He pranks the hell out of them.Comic, yet touching.(This is subtle literary fiction.)Members of an all-white prison gang threaten Patrick, a white ex-con who deals meth in San Diego and who likes all races.Patrick quits crime and befriends the police. Then he and a con artist legally prank and harass the racists.When a law-abiding Asian American woman informs Patrick that he got her pregnant, he immediately marries her. Asians now in his family, Patrick destroys the racist gang, pranking them with a vengeance, until they get hurt, go straight, or get arrested.Review:Watch out! Eric Hertz is a master of satire. Pranked Straight is a scathing lampoon, and Eric's wit is extra dry (so bitterly dry you might not notice it). But the story is rolling, fluid, and exciting.This is an interracial adventure. It's like George Orwell meets Joseph Wambaugh (with a dash of Harper Lee). But this story is written in a modern style, set in San Diego.I especially admire the endearing way Mr. Hertz portrays Mexican gangsters in this novel.Juan Neptune - Mexico City Literary Club ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nikki Delgado. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/202843/bk_acx0_202843_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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