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...ONION FIELD by JOSEPH WAMBAUGH 427 pages. Delacorte...
...Onion Field is the anatomy of an infamous 1963 Los Angeles cop killing. The facts are arresting enough: Gregory Powell, an ex-con, and Jimmy Smith, a gun-shy black junkie looking for a fast buck and a quick escape from his "batty" accomplice, wheeled off on a stickup spree−and kept getting lost somewhere among the freeways. This oddest of couples−Powell wearing a joke-shop disguise, Smith petrified that the pistol stuck in his belt might go off and destroy his manhood−made one U-turn too many and were stopped by a pair...
Caught off guard by the panicky suspects, Detectives Ian Campbell and Karl Hettinger were disarmed and taken at gunpoint to a desolate onion field and shot. Campbell, a strapping exMarine, died almost instantly. Hettinger escaped. But he suffered a more lingering fate thereafter. Overcome with remorse and scorned by police brass for not putting up more of a fight ("If shot," the entire department was reminded at a roll call, "all wounds are not fatal"), he deteriorated into a haunted, hollow-eyed hulk who only now, ten years later, seems on the mend...