They call him the Oracle. He's got forty-six years under his belt and more hash marks than a football field. But more than that, he's got a crew of cops to look out for on the streets of Hollywood. And the streets of Hollywood aren't like any other streets. Together they spend their days and nights in the city's underbelly, where a string of seemingly unrelated events lures the cops of Hollywood Station to their most startling case yet: Russians,...

From master crime writer Joseph Wambaugh, the acclaimed author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary true story of a firefighter who may have been, according to U.S. government profilers, "the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century." John Orr rose through the ranks of the Glendale Fire Department to become fire captain and one of southern California's best-known and respected arson investigators....

"In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro, one of the world's busiest harbors, an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law amid the investigation of a horrifying human-trafficking ring. When Dinko Babich, a young longshoreman, delivers Lita Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub, theirs lives are forever changed as the two are caught in the crosshairs of...

Fin Finnegan, a San Diego police detective and wannabe actor heading straight for a midlife meltdown, is assigned a routine truck theft that turns into a toxic chemical spill, setting off a bizarre chain reaction of death and murder on both sides of the Mexican border. Fin is forced to team up with Nell Salter, a sexy female investigator, as well as an equally fetching US Navy investigator who wants to learn all that Fin can teach her-and that's saying...

It's murder in Joseph Wambaugh's Hollywood. Welcome to Tinsel Town, where the line between cop and killer is a razor's edge.

When wealthy, young Palm Springs resident Jack Watson is shot and then incinerated in his Rolls Royce, his father seeks revenge by calling on LAPD homicide detective Sidney Blackpool to sort things out.

Partners in the Los Angeles Police Department, they're haunted by terrifying dark secrets of the nightwatch, shared predawn drink and sex sessions they call 'choir practice'. Each wears his cynicism like a bulletproof jockstrap; each has his horror story, his bad dream, his night shriek. He is afraid of his friends, he is afraid of himself.

A forty-year-old ex-cop becomes the target of an unknown assailant after he meets a beautiful divorcee.