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Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story of a fatal collision of destinies that would lead two young cops and two young robbers to a deserted field on the outskirts of Los Angeles, towards a bizarre execution and its terrible aftermath.
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Grave, earnest, bleak and classical in form.
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Joseph Wambaugh
- First published
- 1973
- Pages
- 448
- Publisher
- Dell, Random House Publishing Group, Delacorte Press
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780385341592
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“The night in the onion field was a Saturday night.”
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