![]() ![]() ![]() Wambaugh then goes into flashback and takes us through the months prior to this final choir practice, introducing us to the participants, allowing us to glimpse their routine - and not-so-routine - tours of duty. We are told that a tragedy has taken place during one of these sessions and that a young man has been shot to death. ![]() The scene then shifts to Los Angeles nearly ten years later The “choirboys” are a group of policemen who attend “choir practice” - otherwise known as drinking binges - in MacArthur Park after going off night duty. Although we do not learn their identities until much later in the book, we can surmise that this incident provides the fuel for future tragedy. Two unnamed marines have taken shelter there from the enemy, and one of them suffers a severe emotional break. The powerful opening of this novel takes place in a cave in Vietnam in 1967. Film: Lorimar, 1978 screenwriter: Christopher Knopf director: Robert Aldrich. ![]()
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