The Blue Knight (novel)
 The Blue Knight is the second novel by former LAPD detective Joseph Wambaugh and was written while he was still a serving detective. It follows the last days on the beat for a veteran LAPD police officer detailing his thoughts and actions from a first person perspective. The narrative is written in a coarse sometimes self-deprecating manner; in the first chapter Bumper refers to himself as having an ass two nightsticks wide.