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The Choirboys (Mass Market Paperback)
by Joseph Wambaugh (Author) "The man most deserving of credit for keeping the MacArthur Park killing out of the newspapers before it brought discredit to the Los Angeles Police..." (more)
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 384 pages
  • Publisher: Dell Publishing Company (Mar 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0440111889
  • ISBN-13: 978-0440111887
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 651,861 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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They are the Choirboys - the patrol squad of the LA Police attempting to stay sane in an insane world. The five sets of partners on the night-watch are men of varying temperaments and backgrounds, but they are joined together by the job and they have elected to spend their pre-dawn hours in MacArthur Park in relaxing drink and sex sessions they call 'choir practice'. This is the story of men endangered ultimately not by the violence of their jobs but by their choice of off-duty entertainment. This is a boisterous and freewheeling novel, as chillingly authentic as only a veteran police officer could make it. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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14 years with LAPD. Author of NEW CENTURIONS, THE BLUE KNIGHT, THE ONION FIELD among others. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars So good you can taste the coffee and donuts., 5 Sep 2002
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This review is from: The Choirboys (Crime Masterworks) (Paperback)
A book James Ellroy describes, as 'Magnificent' can only be a winner. It reminded me of Catch -22, as the darkest of humour is used to cut open and expose the folly of human behaviour; and mercilessly sends up senior officers. As Baxter Slate is fond of saying in the book - 'most people don't have the dignity to be evil'.

The story chronicles the lives of ten LAPD patrolmen in the mid-seventy's, with backgrounds that range from Vietnam veteran to Mormon. They don't particularly like each other, but are forced to relay on one an other by the shocking nature of their work.

The narrative is told as a series of inter-relating stories that converge on a shooting during 'Choir practise'. Which is a type of group therapy. It involves going to the park after a particularly bad day, to get horrendously drunk and make out with 'Stationhouse Groupies'.

The book doesn't pull any punches as it talks about the day to day lives of the patrolmen who deal with rape, murder, suicide and child abuse as a matter of course.

This ultimately has a devastating affect on the patrolmen. In a dangerous occupation the worst threat to their lives is from themselves, suicide being the