What is the title of the 1973 non-fiction book by Joseph Wambaugh which chronicles the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals?
The Onion Field The Onion Field The Onion Field is a 1973 nonfiction book by Joseph Wambaugh, a sergeant for the Los Angeles Police Department, chronicling the kidnapping of two plainclothes LAPD officers by a pair of criminals during a traffic stop and the subsequent murder of one of the officers. On the night of March 9, 1963, LAPD officers Ian Campbell (age 31) and Karl Hettinger (age 28), both former Marines, were riding in an unmarked "felony" car. They pulled over a 1946 Ford coupe containing two suspicious-looking men at the corner of Carlos Avenue and Gower Street in Hollywood. The two
Joseph Wambaugh at the University of California, San Diego. In 2006, Wambaugh returned to fiction with the publication of "Hollywood Station", set in the summer of 2006. It was his first novel since "Floaters" (1996) – and his first to depict the officers and detectives of LAPD since "The Delta Star" (1983). "Hollywood Station" was highly critical of conditions caused by the federal consent decree under which the LAPD had to operate after the Rampart scandal. In 2008 he followed it with "Hollywood Crows", a sequel featuring Hollywood Division Community Relations Officers ("Crows") that featured many of the same characters. This was