Wambaugh used a group of ten patrol officers as his main characters that held end-of-shift 'get together's' which Wambaugh euphemistically coined 'choir practice'. The Choirboys was a tragicomedy that parodied the effects of urban police work on young officers, which Wambaugh exaggerated through the exploits of his characters, a group of Los Angeles police officers in the Wilshire Division of the L.A.P.D.

Muhammed Ali defeated Joe Frazier in the 'Thriller in Manilla', The Pittsburgh Steelers defeated the Minnesota Vikings in New Orleans to win the Super Bowl, and the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Boston Red Sox in 7 games to capture baseball's 'fall classic', and Joseph Wambaugh penned 'The Choirboys' Gerald Ford experienced two unsuccessful assassination attempts on his life, one by ex Charles Manson gang member Lynette 'Squeaky' Fromme. 'Apollo' and the Soviet 'Soyuz' spacecrafts took off for their historic July 15th link up in space.

Still a hot book, Wambaugh wrote this almost 40 years ago! What was happening in 1975? Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge took over Cambodia, the city of Saigon on April 30th was surrendered to the North Vietnamese and all remaining Americans were evacuated, thus ending America's role in the Vietnam War. In 1975, a Los Angeles Police Department officer-turned-novelist named Joseph Wambaugh wrote the controversial novel 'The Choirboys'. 'The Choirboys: An Authentic 1975 Predawn Nightmare!' Written By Bernie Weisz Hiistorian Pembroke Pines, Florida e mail: of Review:

The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh