Fire lover : a true story

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Label

Fire lover : a true story

Title remainder

a true story

Statement of responsibility

Joseph Wambaugh

Creator

• Wambaugh, Joseph

Subject

• Arson -- California -- Case studies
• California
• Case studies
• Electronic books
• Orr, John Leonard
• Arson
• Pyromania
• Pyromania -- California -- Case studies
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Criminology
• Orr, John Leonard

Genre

• Electronic books
• Case studies

Language

eng

Summary

An ambitious firefighter hunts a notorious arsonist in the Edgar Award-winning true crime story the New York Times calls "stranger than fiction." 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," called the most prolific American arsonist of the twentieth century. 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

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

364.16/4

Index

no index present

LC call number

HV6638.5.U6

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

PerformerNote

Read by Ken Howard