Fuditive Nights Author:Joseph Wambaugh Joseph Wambaugh returns to glamous Palm springs and its ever-mysterious desert to give us a suspense novel that uses that glamour and that awesome desert in equal measure. — The fugitive is indeed a strange man. All that is known of him is that he speaks with an accent, is bald, is carrying a flight bag, and is adept at covering his tracks. — He ... more »is seen first at a small ariport in the desert, where his private plane makes an unscheduled landing. When a police officer barges in on him in the men's room, the fugitive quickly shows his williness to be violent. And when he escapes from that encounter, he demonstrates that he is a man of the desert, wise in the ways of survival. Who he is and what his mission is becomes increasingly baffling to the police.« less