Fire Lover Fire Lover

Fire Lover

A True Story

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Publisher Description

The hunt forthe most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth centuryin this Edgar Award–winning true crime story that’s “stranger than fiction” (The New York Times).

From Joseph Wambaugh, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of such classics as The Onion Field and The Choirboys, comes the extraordinary story of the chase for the “Pillow Pyro,” led by one ambitious firefighter.

Growing up in Los Angeles, John Orr idolized law enforcement. However, after being rejected by both the LAPD and LAFD, he settled for a position with the Glendale Fire Department. There, he rose through the ranks, eventually becoming a fire captain and one of Southern California’s best-known and most respected arson investigators. But Orr led another, unseen life, one that included womanizing and an insatiable thirst for recognition.
 
While Orr busted a slew of petty arsonists, there was one serial criminal he could not track down. Nothing was safe from the so-called Pillow Pyro’s obsession. Homes, retail stores, and fields of dry brush all went up in flames. His handiwork led to millions of dollars worth of property damage and the deaths of four innocent bystanders. But after years of evading the police, he made a mistake—one that would turn Orr’s life upside down.
 
The Washington Post raves, “When [Joseph Wambaugh] talks about the culture of cops versus the culture of firemen, we get no speculation, only hard-earned details.” Based on meticulous research, interviews, case records, and thousands of pages of court transcripts, Fire Lover is Wambaugh at his best.

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2016
October 18
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
338
Pages
PUBLISHER
MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
SELLER
OpenRoad Integrated Media, LLC
SIZE
3.6
MB

Customer Reviews

Gimphd ,

Fire Lover

Good read. Very detailed, too detailed. The book could have gotten all the information a reader would need in half of the pages.

ictARWII ,

Disappointing

With all due respect to the folks who awarded Mr. Wambaugh an Edgar, this is a poorly written book: The narrative lacks organization, and is in desperate need of an aggressive blue pencil; the last half of the book is hopelessly burdened with incessant whining about lawyers doing a job that the author clearly does not comprehend; and the author’s frequent attempts at locker room humor are grossly out of place in a nonfiction book about tragic loss of life and home.

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