Winston Farlowe, the protagonist - it's impossible to call him 'the hero' - is drinking his disability pension after being cut loose from the Newport Beach PD after a line-of-service injury. Joe Wambaugh is best known for his brutally honest early works centered on the LAPD - The Blue Knight, The New Centurions and some of his other 1970s novels. In his long-awaited new novel, best-sellingauthor Joseph Wambaugh combines harrowing suspense, scathing humor, and a moving portrait of a man onthe brink ofself-destruction.'

where death and chicaneryflourish amidst ranches, mansions, and yachtingparties. AndWinnie Farlowe is a man willing to follow wherever sheleads-straight into the juicy pulp of the GoldenOrange, a world where money is everything, butnothing adds up. The coroner called it suicide, but toTess it means the fear of her own fate. Nearly a year ago TessBinder's father washed up on the beach with a bulletin his ear. She's astunningly beautiful, sexually spirited three-timedivorcee from Newport Beach-capital of California'sGolden Orange, where wallets are fat, bikinis areskimpy, and cosmetic surgery is one sure way to abillionaire's bank account.

Never before has he come upagainst anyone like Tess Binder. Eversince, he's been fighting a bad back, fighting thebottle, fighting his conscience. When forty-year-old cop Winnie Farlowe lost hisshield, he lost the only protection he had.

The Golden Orange by Joseph Wambaugh