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The onion field

by Joseph Wambaugh · 1973

True Crime · ranked #49 in category

Hollywood. Saturday night. A broken taillight leads to a routine traffic stop. It shouldn’t have changed the lives of the four men involved, but it did. The Onion Field is the frighteningly true story

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Category
True Crime
First published
1973 · 1970s
Author
Joseph Wambaugh
Standing
Recommended

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