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Joseph wambaugh made his fiction debut in 1970 with the novel the new centurions. The new centurions 1971, is a novel by american writer joseph wambaugh. He is known for his work on the black marble 1980, police story 1973 and the new centurions 1972. The blue knight is set in the 1960s and is the story of a cop who plans to retire in three days. Joseph wambaugh, a former lapd detective sergeant and the author of classic police novels such as the new centurions, the blue knight and the choir boys, turns 83 on jan. Gritty, luminous, and ultimately stunning, this novel is wambaugh at his besta tale of a street cop on the hardest beat of his life. Born in pittsburgh, pennsylvania to a police officer, wambaugh graduated with a masters in english from california state college and served in the lapd for 15 years.
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