The Souls of Police Folk

The Choirboys By Joseph Wambaugh

Delacorte, 346 pp., $8.95 You will just have to take my word for what I think Whittaker Chambers said about The Grapes of Wrath in Time some four decades ago, for I am not going through back issues of that periodical to certify my memory that he called it a great book of great mischief. His pro–found critical summary will be applied also to former Los Angeles Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh’s latest police novel, The Choirboys.