The Onion Field
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.
This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780385341592 (0385341598)
ASIN: 385341598
Publish date: August 28th 2007
Publisher: Delta
Pages no: 512
Edition language: English
BLUF: Good for those who like to know the background of all players and enjoy true crime that reads like a novel.Plot: The Onion Field is a nonfiction account of the kidnappings of Officers Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger and murder of Ian Campbell by Gregory Ulas Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith. Powell ...
Awesome, yet deeply sad book by JW. This is when I started seeking him out for his true crime works and felt they just kept getting better and better.
Better than average true crime, I quite enjoyed it when I read it, but haven't wanted to look at it again.Library copy
I read this way back in the 80s. Don't know why it's not on my page here. It was the first Wambaugh I'd read, and I think the only non-fiction I've read of his. None of his novels have ever impressed me the way this true story did.
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