Finnegan's Week

by Joseph Wambaugh

Book Overview

Premier crime fiction writer Joseph Wambaugh has written one of his most tension-filled stories yet. In a rollercoaster ride of doublecrosses and murder amidst the drug dealers, sleazemongers and black marketeers of Southern California and Tijuana, a San Diego police detective searches for a deadly killer: a 55-gallon drum of the toxic chemical Guthion.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688128017
• ISBN13: 9780688128012
• Release Date: October 1993
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Wambaugh has been missed,

Great crime mystery,this book has it all. Humor, suspense,drama and fantastic writing! Read ALL of Wambaugh's books.

Finnegan's Week

It was a gift, my husband had read all Wambaugh books with the exception of this one and I lost him to it. He said wow, great.

Reads more like Elmore Leonard than the old Wambaugh.

Much, much more fun than previous work. My wife and I both laughed out loud while reading Finnegan's Week. It's larger than life, but believable all the way. In our opinion, this is Wambaugh's best novel.

One of Wambaugh's best, Fin is a winner.

Wambaugh delivers as usual in this funny, exciting tale of an cop who?s an aspiring actor (and who?s facing midlife crises as only an actor wannabe can) while in the middle of investigating a truck theft that turns out to also involve a theft from a Naval warehouse as well as a load of missing toxic waste. His case brings him into contact with two tough and sexy Policewomen, each with her own private and professional agenda. Will Fin Finnegan (the cop-actor-hopeful) get the part he?s trying out for? Will he survive a week filled with too much booze, a murderous sociopath business owner, a druggy biker turned trucker, and two beautiful women who both seem as interested in him as they are in the case at hand? This is typical Wambaugh in that the horrors and sadness of the crimes and victims are not treated lightly, yet (like the good cops who frequent his novels) our only salvation from evil is to laugh at his sometimes mordant humor and wit. One of Wambaugh?s strengths is his ability to gradually make his characters sympathetic and likeable, sometimes even when they?re not the good guys. I rate this as one of Wambaugh?s best novels, and that?s saying something, since in my opinion he?s never written a bad one. I wish he would recover his muse and write some more fiction in the vein of this novel and FUGITIVE NIGHTS. It?s been a while since he?s come out with any novels. A shame, because no one else writes about police life in quite the same way.A five star rating for the humor, characters, and the suspense.

A PEDAL-TO-THE-METAL ROMP

A wonderful, crazy, yet cruelly sane morality tale, written with preeminent wit and humor. Impossible to put down!