The Choirboys
by Joseph Wambaugh

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Book Review: So good you can taste the coffee and donuts.
Summary: 4 Stars

The story chronicles the lives of ten LAPD patrolmen in the mid-seventy's, with backgrounds that range from Vietnam veteran to Mormon. They don't particularly like each other, but are forced to relay on one an other by the shocking nature of their work.

The narrative is told as a series of inter-relating stories that converge on a shooting during 'Choir practise'. Which is a type of group therapy. It involves going to the park after a particularly bad day, to get horrendously drunk and make out with 'Stationhouse Groupies'.

The book doesn't pull any punches as it talks about the day to day lives of the patrolmen who deal with rape, murder, suicide and child abuse as a matter of course.

This ultimately has a devastating affect on the patrolmen. In a dangerous occupation the worst threat to their lives is from themselves, suicide being the highest cause of death to policemen. Choir practise becomes their main way to relax and express they're feelings, this strategy ultimately fails and leads to disaster.

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