Wambaugh has deliberately avoided tying his novels to one another. There are no series protagonists; there are no recurring characters at all. Since he abandoned Los Angeles, even the scenes of his novels seem to be conscientiously varied. The novels of the 1990s have tended to focus on the more upscale social environments of Southern California. The cop protagonists of these novels have, of course, remained middle class, but even they tend to have milder characters. Floaters (1996) continues this.....
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