This book is all kinds of slapstick comedy in the Hollywood police station. The characters are off-the-wall and crazy, as are the criminals. For me, it was a light, entertaining venture into several layers of nonsense. ( )

Joseph Wambaugh is a former Los Angles cop who has had a career as a novelist and adviser for cop films. This is a tongue-in-cheek story of the weird events on the streets of Hollywood during a full moon. ( )

Joseph Wambaugh's characters are some of the greatest. They are quirky and leap off the page. This story didn't have that much of a plot, but every part was entertaining. ( )

This has to be one of the best American Police Procedural novels I have ever read.

This book is about the crew of Hollywood station and what they are really like as individuals and the criminals and characters they meet in their day to day job.
Some of the Police officers are Hollywood Nate who wants to become an actor
Dana Vaughn an older sensible Single Mother officer
Flotsam and Jetsam two Surfer dudes
Aaron Sloane and Sheila Montez who are Partners and also lovers but keeping it very quiet.

The story of the Crooks that along side this is Dewey Gleeson and his Mastermind wife Eunice have several long running identity thefts they employ some local scum bags notably Tristian and Jerzy.
A Young Latino called Malcolm who is becoming a bit of a Sex pest wants to work for Dewey to make some extra money.
This all comes to a head when Tristian and Jerzy try to scam Dewey and Eunice.
Police arrive Eunice, Jerzy, Malcolm are all killed, Unfortunately so is Police officer Dana Vaughn in the shoot out.

Very good book interesting and realistic characters. ( )

I've been reading Joseph Wambaugh's books since he penned the first one, "The New Centurions" in 1970. He skillfully combines the mundane, the bizarre, the criminal, and the just plain crazy behavior of people, in the context of believable police officers who, to one degree or another, are involved in the same variety of human activity as are those they protect and serve. Anyone who has served in law enforcement can bring up personal experiences that verify exactly what Wambaugh seeks to depict, although some of his police characters are a bit zanier than most of us have experienced, (but often only a bit). I'm usually smiling throughout one of Wambaugh's romps and I was throughout "Hollywood Moon", with the occasional out-loud chuckle every time Flotsam and Jetsam were doing their sthick. I'm very pleased to see J.W. is just as good as he ever was, hard to believe it has been 46 years since his first outing, tempus fugit! ( )