Joseph Wambaugh/'the New Centurions'
Approx. Words: 2,250 - Pages: 10 Add to cart Price $109.50
...look at the everyday life of police officers in his 1970 novel, The New Centurions. Wambaugh introduces the reader to three young police cadets and then offers vignettes that take the reader through the next five years of their police careers. This novel has no compelling story, other then the personal and professional lives of these men. There's no big case to solve, no specific criminal to apprehend. Rather, Wambaugh creates a fascinating novel by dramatizing the everyday choices that police officers have to make regarding ethics. Wambaugh demonstrates through the lives of his protagonists that police work involves balancing ethical decisions with their needs as individuals and the risks that police work poses towards their own lives. The reader meets the three main characters while they are in training at the police academy. By alternating the point of view between the three protagonists, the reader not only has privy to the character's inner thoughts, but also sees...
Add to cart Price $109.50