Floaters: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. "This is vintage Wambaugh, a rollicking and ribald tale, laced with black humor."-The San Diego Union-Tribune Harbor cops Fortney and Leeds have a good time patrolling San Diego's Mission Bay, scoping out body-sculpted beauties on pleasure craft, rescuing boating bozos who've run aground, and hauling in the occasional floater. But now their days are anything but typical, for the America's Cup regattas have come to town and San Diego swarms with sailors, schemers, spies, and saboteurs, and the 'cuppies' who want to love them. It's a randy 'cuppie' named Blaze who tweaks their cop instincts that something's not quite right on the waterfront-and it's Blaze who sets off a bizarre criminal trail that would be hilarious if it didn't wind up just as nasty as it gets, with a pair of murders right on the eve of the biggest sailing race of all. Praise for Floaters "There's only one Joe Wambaugh. He's a really important American writer."-Jonathan Kellerman " Wambaugh da