Her are three post-Wambaugh cops-turned-novelists from the LA
area.
DALLAS BARNES An LAPD detective who worked both Narc and
Homicide in the Roaring Southwest station, Barnes wrote three
novels in the mid-70s featuring various members of the
Southwest Divisional detective squad, "SEE THE WOMAN," BADGE
OF HONOR, and YESTERDAY IS DEAD. The he sold a script to TV
and wasn't heard from in bookstores for years. If he'd stayed
with it, the Southwest Division might have become to the
Coast what the 87th Precinct was to the Seaboard. In the '80s
he returned with three more books, DEADLY JUSTICE, a fourth
Southwest novel, CITY OF PASSION, a stand-alone set in the
Valley that was adapted into a special 3-part HUNTER episode,
and FREEDOM DANCE, a combination cop/spy novel based on an
actual defection case in which LAPD officer were involved,
which he wrote for the Evangelical Christian market.
GERALD PETIEVITCH A US Secret Service Agent who spent most of
his career in the LA area. His dad and his brother were both
LAPD officers. He's written four books about a Secret Service
Agent named Charles Carr, all of them excellent, particularly
THE QUALITY OF THE INFORMANT, one stand-alone Secret Service
novel, TO LIVE AND DIE IN L.A., which he adapted for the
movies, and a stand-alone LAPD novel EARTH ANGELS, based on
his brother's activities as a juvenile gang specialist. His
other novels aren't set in LA.
PAUL BISHOP A supervising detective in the West Valley
Division, Bishop has two series character, retired cop
Calicao Jack Walker, and West Velly homicide detective Fey
Croaker. He combines good action with an earthy sense of
absurdist humor. He also is one of the mystery genre's
biggest boosters, and he ran his own fanzine THE THIEFTAKER,
before his novels started to sell, back in the dim, dark days
when such things were acutally printed.
JIM DOHERTY
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