In 1971, eleven years after joining the LAPD, Wambaugh saw his first novel, The New Centurions, published by Little, Brown ...

Joseph Wambaugh, the former LAPD officer who brought realism to the "Police Story" TV series and books like "The Onion Field," died Friday.

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Before the release of Joseph Wambaugh’s first novel, “The New Centurions,” he received an unusual offer from the star of the ...

In novels like “The Glitter Dome” and nonfiction works like “The Onion Field,” he took a harsh, unglamorous look at the ...

“The New Centurions” was Wambaugh’s first book ... which was followed by a 1975-76 TV series of the same name that starred George Kennedy. As his celebrity grew, he sometimes found himself ...

“The New Centurions” (1970 ... (1976), also took aim at the good-guy image of police work portrayed by TV shows such as “Dragnet” and “Adam-12” and tapped into the wider questioning ...

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After publishing them as “The New Centurions ... popular 1970s television show, “Police Story.” For a time, he moved away ...