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Harbor Nocturne

Harbor Nocturne

Author(s): Joseph Wambaugh

Location(s): Los Angeles

Genre(s): Crime

Era(s): Modern

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Set in San Pedro, a southern district of Los Angeles and one of the world’s busiest ports. Dinko Babich and Medina, a young Mexican dancer, from a local topless bar start building up a relationship, a life together fraught with dealings with the local gangsters.

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Gritty and rough, excellently evocative of a port, and the seamy side of Los Angeles – E. Labur –

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