The Blue Knight
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780722188996 (0722188994)
Publish date: May 21st 1987
Publisher: Sphere
Pages no: 272
Edition language: English
This book was on a list of recommended mysteries, and was found in the mystery section--yet I don't think it really belongs there--both because this is no whodunnit, but also because it transcends that genre. We follow "Bumper" Morgan through the last three days of this beat in 1970s Los Angeles bef...
The author was still working as a policeman when this book was published so I felt like I was getting the true inside story of walking a beat in L.A. during the early seventies. "Bumper" Morgan is a larger than life character and this chronicle of his last few days walking a beat before retirement ...