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L.A. Cops: A Story of Honor, Sex & Tragedy

L.A. Cops: A Story of Honor, Sex & Tragedy

by Samuel Turner

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$31.95
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Softcover
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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 12/11/2012

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 320
ISBN : 9781479728527
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 320
ISBN : 9781479728534

About the Book

L.A. Cops is primarily a work of fiction; with a few exceptions, the names of my characters as well as most of the cities and counties in the San Joaquin Valley are figments of my imagination. If the reader believes that I have written about actual places, as well as real crimes, that is his right to do so. I can only say in my defense that all writers have stored in their memory-cells recollections of actual events, and frequently borrow from those storage banks ideas that eventually go together to make up a story, or even an entire novel. That’s how writers of fiction make a living; unless the work is pure science-fiction, the more closely it resembles real-life situations, the more likely it will sell, because we all experience something inside when we can relate to the characters, events, or locales in a story.
I have used real situations—and in several instances—actual places in the chapters that deal with World War II. Of course, built within that framework, I’ve taken the liberty to make my characters more colorful, gallant, or tyrannical than may have been the actual case. I wasn’t old enough during that period to have had personal experiences of this nature, but some of the military individuals I’ve introduced you to may approximately match some that I ran into during my own years in the Air Force. After all, no one period in time has its own special hold on good, decent people, nor on those who have made life less than great for those they have come in contact with. You will find both types playing important roles in my book.

 

 

About the Author

The name “Samuel E. Turner,” which I’ve used for this book, belongs–in reality–to my maternal grandfather, but given the fact that he was laid to rest over fi fty years ago, I doubt that he’d much mind my borrowing it. After four previous books that were historical in nature, I decided that it was time to broaden my interests and “have-a-go” at fi ction-writing (even though L.A. Cops is partially based on actual events and places in the Southwest). I am a product of the greater Los Angeles area, and prior to moving to northern California in the late ‘60s, I had worked in a bank in downtown L.A., spent several years as a cryptographer and historian (with the Air Force), graduated from a state university in the region, and was a secondary teacher in public schools in and around Los Angeles, then in Northern California for two more decades after relocating in the Sacramento area. Even though my wife–of 57 years--and I attended the same high school, we didn’t meet until some years later. She and I are the parents of three great persons, and grandparents of four. Since retiring from the classroom in the early ‘90s, I’ve spent time on the area waterways as a member of the Coast Guard Auxiliary, then when this became too strenuous, I’ve devoted much of my free time to research and writing–generally about Southern California and its residents.