The Glitter Dome

By: Joseph Wambaugh

Narrated by: Adam Verner

In his finest, most compelling blend of wild humor and powerful drama, Joseph Wambaugh leads us into the Hollywood scene to demonstrate the effects of that heady, amoral world on four sets of police partners enmeshed in the glamour and the grime, the hustle and the horror. They live and work in a dizzying mix of moguls and starlets, elaborate parties, outrageous and sordid actions; a place where sex and drugs are open and the big deals are undercover.

A visit to The Glitter Dome - their after-hours watering hole, where the lights are kaleidoscopic and groupies plentiful - is the only way to come down from the excitement and fear of the day.

Suddenly, their grim world of vice, drugs, and child abuse is interrupted by the murder of a major studio’s president. And two veteran homicide detectives discover the alarming extent to which they, too, have been seduced by Hollywood.

Once again, in the boisterous and riveting tradition of The Choirboys, Joseph Wambaugh creates a group of unexpected and unforgettable characters who inhabit the shadow world he knows so well, where the line between cop and criminal is destroyed.

©1981 Original material, Joseph Wambaugh. Recorded by arrangement with Mysterious Press, LLC. (P)2011 HighBridge Company

Not that much

The lack of investigative detail. Poor relationship beteen partners. Story line was shallow and boring. The author has done better.

Wambaugh is GREAT- Narrator, Not So Much

Joseph Wambaugh is THE master of the LAPD novel and has been since the 70's with New Centurions. The Glitter Dome has a great cast of characters, but the narrator made them all sound like whiny dinks. The voice characterizations are lame to non existent and the narrator mispronounced simple words like "valet" and names like "Robles". Great story, terrible reader.

The REAL Policemans police procedural

What did you love best about The Glitter Dome?

If you give Wambaugh a chance, you realize you are in the midst of as

What did you like best about this story?

Storytelling

Have you listened to any of Adam Verner’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

Great stroy telling

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Policeman findig the bad guys

Not bad

Probably the least favorite of Wambaugh's works so far but it was still entertaining. I had a hard time getting used to the narrator, Adam Verner.

Great Wambaugh

I'm only a third through the audio and having a hard time going further. I love the story and characters but i simply cannot tolerate the narrator! I have the book so i think I'll just read read this one.
I would recommend the book but i strongly advise steering clear of this narrator!