This book offers a realistic and gripping portrayal of the challenges faced by new police officers in the tumultuous year of 1960. Through the perspectives of Plebesly, Fehler, and Duran, Wambaugh explores the complexities and gray areas of law enforcement, as well as the personal toll it takes on those who wear the badge. Readers seeking a gritty and thought-provoking crime novel will find "The New Centurions" an engrossing read.

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From the baby-faced rookies to hashmark heroes, they are besieged men, dealing daily with a world coming apart. Hunting killers, rousting whores, quelling gang wars, fighting corruption, they risk death every day...every night. They are the Los Angeles blues - a new breed of cop.

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