Floaters

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Wlio else but Joseph Wambaugh could write "a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book" that is also acclaimed as "one of this season's best crime novels"? That's how The New York Times Book Review and Time, respectively, described his last novel, Finnegan's Week. Nobody writes a faster, funnier, more satisfying tale of cops and criminals, the high life and lowlifes than Wambaugh—and Floaters is his sharpest yet.
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Mick Fortney and his partner Leeds manage to cruise above the standard police stress-pools of coffee and Pepto-Bismol—they're water cops in the "Club Harbor Unit," manning a patrol boat on San Diego's Mission Bay. A typically rough day's detail consists of scoping out body-sculpted beauties on pleasure craft, rescuing boating bozos who've run aground, jeering at lifeguards, and hauling in the occasional floater who comes to the surface.
But now their days are anything but typical, because the America's Cup international sailing regattas have come to town and suddenly San... Tovább

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Wlio else but Joseph Wambaugh could write "a joy, a hoot, a riot of a book" that is also acclaimed as "one of this season's best crime novels"? That's how The New York Times Book Review and Time, respectively, described his last novel, Finnegan's Week. Nobody writes a faster, funnier, more satisfying tale of cops and criminals, the high life and lowlifes than Wambaugh—and Floaters is his sharpest yet.
floaters
Mick Fortney and his partner Leeds manage to cruise above the standard police stress-pools of coffee and Pepto-Bismol—they're water cops in the "Club Harbor Unit," manning a patrol boat on San Diego's Mission Bay. A typically rough day's detail consists of scoping out body-sculpted beauties on pleasure craft, rescuing boating bozos who've run aground, jeering at lifeguards, and hauling in the occasional floater who comes to the surface.
But now their days are anything but typical, because the America's Cup international sailing regattas have come to town and suddenly San Diego is swarming with yacht crazies of every nationality, the cuppies who want to love them, and the looky-loo tourists, racing spies, scam artists, and hookers who all want their piece of the action. It's the outstanding body and jaunty smile—full of mischief, full of hell—of one cuppie, a particulariy fiery redhead named Blaze, that gets Leeds and Fortney's attention. First Leeds drowns in frus-tratingly unrequited boozy love from afar. Then, with her increasingly odd behavior, Blaze tweaks every one of their
cop instincts, alerting them that something's not quite right on the waterfront.
hideed, Blaze will soon lead leggy Detective Anne Zorn and Mick Fortney along a bizarre criminal trail that would be hilarious if it didn't wind up just as nasty as it gets, with a pair of murders right on the eve of the biggest sailing race of all.
Filled with all of Joseph Wambaugh's trademark skills—laugh-out-loud writing, crackling dialogue, outrageous excitement, and, of course, plenty of raunchy veteran cops who leap off the page—Floaters is Wambaugh at the very top of his form.
JOSEPH WAMBAUGH, formerly of the Los Angeles Police Department, is the author of fourteen previous books, among them The New Centurions, The Onion Field, The Glitter Dome, The Blooding, The Golden Orange, and Finnegan's Week—all of them outstanding bestsellers. He lives in southern California.
Jacket illustration © Tom Hallman
PRAISE FOR JOSEPH WAMBAUGH'S FINNEGAN'S WEEK
"FUNNY, EXCITING, AND ULTIMATELY TOUCHING." —Chicago Tribune
"ONE OF THE BEST NOVELS JOSEPH WAMBAUGH HAS WRITTEN WAMBAUGH IS IN RARE FORM." —San Francisco Chronicle
"WAMBAUGH IS AT THE TOP OF HIS FORM HERE .RAUNCHY AND OFTEN HILARIOUS." —Publishers Weekly (starred review)
"WAMBAUGH AT HIS CLEVEREST SMART, CRUNCHY DIALOGUE." —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
"WAMBAUGH'S BLACK IRISH HUMOR GROWS MORE CYNICAL (AND HILARIOUS) WITH EACH NEW NOVEL [FINNEGAN'S WEEK IS] A LAUGH-OUT-LOUD MORALITY PLAY." —Digby Diehl
"FINNEGAN'S WEEK IS A LOT OF FUN; WE SHOULD ALL HAVE WEEKS LIKE THAT." —The Orlando Sentinel
"WAMBAUGH'S WIT IS IN FINE FORM .CHARACTERS ARE SHARPLY DEFINED AND THE DIALOGUE RINGS TRUE." —San Antonio Express News
"IF THERE IS AN AMERICAN AUTHOR WHO CONSISTENTLY PROVIDES BANG FOR THE BUCK, IT'S JOSEPH WAMBAUGH WAMBAUGH DELIVERS." —The Tampa Tribune and Times Vissza