European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 22, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse Boo Swambaugh notes woman cops plight in a fugitive nights by Linda Deutsch the associated press when Joseph Wambaugh decided to write a novel with a retired woman cop As the Central figure he went to the source and interviewed female officers on the Job. Without exception he said they had stories to Tell about sexual harassment a not by criminals but by their fellow male officers. A i interviewed about two dozen female cops a Wambaugh said. A fall of them wanted to talk and All of them talked about How difficult it was for women to do police in his new Book fugitive nights Wambaugh a protagonist Breda Burrows recalls when she was a police officer enduring the taunts of male cops. The situation spurred her Early retirement to life As a private investigator in Palm Springs. Fugitive nights tells a funny detective Story with a sad undertone and much of it has to do with Bredacs role As a woman in a Many a world. Some reviewers have billed the Book As Wambaugh a breakthrough into comedic fiction. He sees it As one of his Many commentaries on the foibles of Law enforcement a including sexual discrimination. A it be this Way if half of the Force consisted of women a Wambaugh said. But he noted that Only 12 percent of the los Angeles police departments 8,300 officers Are female. Wambaugh even suggests the los Angeles department should choose a woman chief to replace the much criticized Daryl Gates. A at this time in history they re looking for a kind Heady racial thoughts in a company Many by Brian e. Crowley Cox news service company Man by Brent Wade Algonquin books of Chapel Hill. Waders first novel is a compelling look at the life of a Black Man in corporate America. And it is riveting Reading. Company Man opens in a Hospital where Billy Covington the 38-year-old director of marketing communications for Var tech industries is partially paralysed from a gunshot wound to his head. While in the Hospital Covington writes to a Friend Hethe paperback a verses by David Streitfeld the Washington Post a paperback edition of Salman Rushdie a the satanic verses is scheduled to be published before the end of the month by a group of publishing houses and sympathizers under the cloak of anonymity. Rushdie has been in hiding since he was sentenced to death by the iranian leadership three years ago for blasphemy against islam. The sentence was file Joseph Wambaugh on King beating or gentler image of the police Force a he said. A the Macho image has had its Day. In be always Felt that women grow up a lot faster than Guys do. And they have common Wambaugh the policeman turned author whose Best Selling books have looked into the minds of cops for two decades was interviewed in los Angeles during a Book tour for fugitive nights. But he was eager to talk about the plight of the embattled department he once served and the scandal that has rocked it from top to Bottom. He said he sees last years videotaped police beating of Black Motorist Rodney King As a the my Lai of police work a an incident of a a surreal horror without equal. Has not spoken to in nearly 20 years. Through this discourse we learn about Covington a struggle with his identity. As a boy his grandmother drummed into him the notion that he should never a act Covington adopts his grandmothers philosophy As he moves up through the corporation. He wants to be seen As neither Black nor White simply As an individual achieving Success on his own merits. A i had already adopted the ritual language the lexicon of shifting responsibility of keeping myself Safe. A lexicon of strategic silences whispered reassurances of innuendo and pleasant puppet smiles. It was like learning any new language when you can dream in it you re but it was not that simple. Covington knew that his White Bosses were very aware that he was Black. This is a Complex novel. Wade does not make Whites the villains. He finds prejudice and misunderstanding within every group. And Wade does not find easy answers for the Many questions his Book raises. Renewed on its feb. 14 anniversary Date along with a pointed reminder that it also applied to publishers of the satanic verses. A spokesman for the consortium who asked to remain Anonymous said that a the idea is to publish the Book strongly and demonstrate the strength with which the principles behind the publication Are held by everyone in the the spokesman declined to list any of the groups members or characterize them in any Way. Feb. 14 was also supposed to have marked the announcement of a paperback edition from a consortium organized by the authors Guild but that time the Deal fell Sisi i i i is new York times list fiction 1 the Pelican Brief by John Grisham last week. 1. Weeks on list1 2 the roed to Omaha by Robert Ludlum last week 3. Weeks on list 4 3 rising Sun by Michael Crichton last week 2. 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