The memorable individuals, immortalized in this, Wambaugh's best work, continue to puzzle and fascinate. I first read this book many years ago and have never been free of its spell. Wambaugh is a master, a former policeman who writes with sensitive eloquence, an understanding of the people and places that makes his work leap off the page and seize your senses. I feel like I know them, or knew them, as the last of the four recently died (2012). The characters are depicted with precision.
This true story is of a murder that shocked the City of Angels, and became the impetus for dramatic change in police procedure, both in potential hostage situations, and, much later, in recognizing and understanding emotional trauma, PTSD, and survivor's guilt.
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