The Onion Field
by Wambaugh, Joseph
- Used
- fair
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fair
- ISBN 10
- 0440173507
- ISBN 13
- 9780440173502
- Seller
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CEDAR GROVE, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Dell, 1978. Mass Market Paperback. Fair. 67x17x107. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. heavy edge wear, spine creases, chips at lower edge of cover. Hollywood. 1963. A Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn't have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. Before the night was over, one was dead, two would find themselves facing the death penalty, and the other's life would never be the same again. Fresh from a string of robberies, the car contained two desperate men who got the drop on the two LAPD cops who stopped them, seized their guns and kidnapped them. They then drove to a rural onion field where they decided to execute the cops. One officer was able to escape, but only at the price of his partner's life. Haunted by horrific memories, wracked by guilt, ostracized by his own, and repeatedly tormented by defence attorneys in one retrial after another as the defendants manipulate the quicksilver legal system, this cop suffered emotional meltdown. Wambaugh, takes us meticulously through the crime, second by second, and then tells the surviving cop's powerful and moving story: the destruction of a forgotten victim. "The Onion Field" is Joseph Wambaugh's best-known and most celebrated work.
Synopsis
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one march night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Kayleighbug Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 047444
- Title
- The Onion Field
- Author
- Wambaugh, Joseph
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0440173507
- ISBN 13
- 9780440173502
- Publisher
- Dell
- Place of Publication
- New York, U.s.a
- Date Published
- 1978
- Size
- 67x17x107
- Bookseller catalogs
- True Crime;
- X weight
- 5 oz
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