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The Onion Field

The Onion Field

by Joseph Wambaugh

Published for the first time: 1/1/1973

512 pages, Paperback

Genres: True Crime, History, Nonfiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Thriller, Mystery

This is the frighteningly true story of two young cops and two young robbers whose separate destinies fatally cross one March night in a bizarre execution in a deserted Los Angeles field.

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