NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Raucous cops, outlaw bikers, and suntanned celebrities collide in a steamy landscape swirling with natural beauty and unnatural death.
Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man's son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert to take on the case. But what begins for Blackpool as an investigation sandwiched between golf games in nearby Palm Springs quickly becomes an obsession.
For the savage beauty of the wastelands holds many secrets. Secrets that stir up Blackpool's long-suppressed nightmares of his own son's death. Secrets that threaten to destroy an entire police department. Secrets that, by rights, should remain forever buried by the wind in the ageless desert sands.
In this riveting novel, bestselling author Joseph Wambaugh jolts our emotions while entertaining us with his special brand of bawdy, beautiful, dark humor.
| ISBN: | 9780553762877 |
| Publication date: | 1st September 1986 |
| Author: | Joseph Wambaugh |
| Publisher: | Bantam Books an imprint of Random House Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 352 pages |
| Genres: |
Crime and mystery: police procedural Thriller and Suspense Crime and Mystery |
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Raucous cops, outlaw bikers, and suntanned celebrities collide in a steamy landscape swirling with natural beauty and unnatural death.
Seventeen months ago the California desert revealed the remains of Jack Watson. The rich man's son was found incinerated in a Rolls-Royce, a bullet in his head. Now, a year and a half later, Los Angeles Police Department homicide detective Sidney Blackpool is called into the desert to take on the case. But what begins for Blackpool as an investigation sandwiched between golf games in nearby Palm Springs quickly becomes an obsession.
For the savage beauty of the wastelands holds many secrets. Secrets that stir up Blackpool's long-suppressed nightmares of his own son's death. Secrets that threaten to destroy an entire police department. Secrets that, by rights, should remain forever buried by the wind in the ageless desert sands.
In this riveting novel, bestselling author Joseph Wambaugh jolts our emotions while entertaining us with his special brand of bawdy, beautiful, dark humor.
The Secrets of Harry Bright features in the following genres: Crime and mystery: police procedural, Thriller and Suspense, Crime and Mystery
The Secrets of Harry Bright is available in Paperback
The Secrets of Harry Bright was written by Joseph Wambaugh and published by Bantam Books an imprint of Random House Publishing Group
The Secrets of Harry Bright has 352 pages