num_pages: 427
description: 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. "A distinguished 'factual novel.'A fascinating account of a double one physical, the other psychological."-Truman Capote
language: English
title: The Onion Field
titlecomplete: The Onion Field (A contact book)
genres: Mystery, Thriller, Suspense, Classics, True Crime, History, Police, Crime, Mystery Thriller, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 20889
places: Los Angeles area, California
publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks