The onion field - joseph wambaugh

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A fascinating account of a double tragedy: one physical, the other psychological.

--Truman Capote 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.

A complex story of tragic proportions .

more ambitious than In Cold Blood and equally compelling -- The New York Times Once the action begins it is difficult to put the book down.

Wambaughs compelling account of this true story is destined for the bestseller lists.

-- Library Journal.