num_pages: 357
description: A darkly comic gritty look at life on the streets from the former LAPD detective and multiple New York Times bestseller ( Publishers Weekly ). In the southernmost Los Angeles district of San Pedro one of the worlds busiest harbors an unlikely pair of lovers are unwittingly caught between the two warring sides of the law. When Dinko Babich a young longshoreman delivers Lita Medina a young Mexican dancer from the harbor to a Hollywood nightclub theirs lives are forever changed as their love develops among the myriad cops and criminals who occupy the harbor. Suspense and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor with the unflinching eye for detail and spot-on humor that only a master of the form like Joseph Wambaugh can provide. Their paths will cross with many colorful characters introduced in Wambaughs acclaimed bestselling Hollywood Station series: the surfer cops known as Flotsam and Jetsam aspiring actor Hollywood Nate Weiss young Britney Small along with new members of the midwatch. Humor love suspense and tragedy are intertwined in the everyday life of the cops and residents of San Pedro Harbor with the unflinching eye for detail and spot-on humor that only a master of the form like Joseph Wambaugh can provide.
language: English
title: Harbor Nocturne
publisher: Mysterious Press