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^ "An open letter to the airborne community". War Chonicles.com. Retrieved 26 Jul. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)
^ Dudney, Robert (2006). "The Magnificent Memorial". Air Force Magazine, Journal of the Air Force Association. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
^ Todd Lamb, editor (2002). Ohio State Football Gameday. The Ohio State Athletics Communications Office. pp. 42–43. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)
^ Robert F. Dorr (1998). "Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, Variant Briefing". In John Heathcott (ed.). Wings of Fame:The Journal of Class Combat Aircraft, Vol. 11. AIRTime Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-86184-017-9., 119
^ Jack Park (2002). "Francis Schmidt: Mr. Razzle Dazzle". The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia. Sports Publishing LLC. p. 141. ISBN 1582610061.
^ Jim Tressel (2003). "Charlie Ream 1934-1937". In Jeff Snook (ed.). What It Means To Be A Buckeye. Triumph Books. p. 3. ISBN 1572436026.
^ Richard H. Campbell (2005). "Appendix E: Project Alberta". The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29's Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0786421398.

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The Secrets of Harry Bright
Author	Joseph Wambaugh
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Detective novel
Publisher	William Morrow and Company
Publication date	1985
Media type	Print (Hardcover)
Pages	345 pp
ISBN	ISBN 0-688-05958-9 Parameter error in {{ISBNT}}: invalid character
Preceded by	The Delta Star
Followed by	The Golden Orange

The Secrets of Harry Bright is the seventh novel written by former Los Angeles Police Department detective Joseph Wambaugh. Published in 1985, the book continues a pattern of Wambaugh crime fiction beginning with The Choirboys that uses black humor to explore the psychological effects of prolonged stress on veteran police officers. As with all his novels, The Secrets of Harry Bright, set in November 1984, is contemporaneous with the time frame in which it was written and includes numerous allusions and references to events and personalities of the time.

The Secrets of Harry Bright is also the fourth novel, beginning with The Black Marble, that in addition to focusing on police work, satirizes mores and extravagances of the Southern California "rich and famous" lifestyle. The novel, set in and around Palm Springs, California, savages a wealthy "second (or third or fourth etc.) home" mentality characterized by golf, excessive drinking and drug use, and discriminatory country clubs. Wambaugh draws contrasts by depicting the fictional Mineral Springs, a small wind-swept desert town populated not just by blue-class tourist industry workers, but "ex-cons, bikers, crank dealers, Palm Springs burglars, nudists, robbers and pimps, horny kite pilots, dopers and drunks."

Also, as with his other novels beginning with The Black Marble, Wambaugh spins his tale from numerous points of view, but has as its central character and protagonist a competent, middle aged but dissipated detective sergeant whose age and police experience mirror that of Wambaugh himself, and where he likely would have been had he not resigned from the LAPD.

Wambaugh introduces a new psychological theme in The Secrets of Harry Bright, that of the relationship of fathers and sons, exploring it as a sub-theme to those of burnout and police suicide that characterized his previous novels. He uses as a vehicle for this what he describes as the "unnatural" situation of sons dying before their fathers, which has affected three key figures in his story. Although a murder whodunit, the plot is secondary to the gradual revelation of its central character, Sidney Blackpool. The title persona, Harry Bright, is seen only through the descriptions of others until the dénouement of the novel, when he becomes a crucial clue to Blackpool's fate.

-Main characters

Sgt. Sidney Blackpool - 42 years old, divorced, and with LAPD for 21 years, Blackpool is a homicide detective in Hollywood. He is known as "Black Sid" to his peers because of an excessive fondness for Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch whiskey, and he is still reeling from the accidental death of his 18-year-old son Tommy in a surfing accident fourteen months before.
Det. Otto Stringer - Blackpool's partner, about to turn forty, balding and overweight. Otto transferred to Homicide two months before, after a long tenure as a narcotics detective, as a result of several brushes with death. He and Blackpool are old friends, having been partners twelve years before as uniformed cops. Stringer loves luxury but is practically bankrupt after two divorces.
Sgt. Harry Bright - A former San Diego Police Department sergeant, he joined the newly created Mineral Springs PD to be near his ex-wife, who divorced him to marry a wealthy financier she met while shopping. Although his reputation as both a good street cop and a good supervisor was unchallenged, Harry Bright drank heavily, often "sleeping it off" in Solitaire Canyon near Mineral Springs before being invalided by a stroke and subsequent heart attack the preceding March. His son Danny, a college student, perished in the crash of PSA Flight 182 in 1978, after which he moved to ineral Springs.
Victor Watson - Wealthy owner of high-tech Watson Industries and married to a famous film and television actress, Watson is 59 but looks ten years older. His son Jack was apparently kidnapped from their home in Palm Springs seventeen months before and found shot to death in the burned wreckage of his father's Rolls Royce in Solitaire Canyon.

-Secondary characters

Chief Paco Pedroza - A former LAPD sergeant (for nine years) and Riverside County Sheriff's deputy (14 years), Pedroza is 51, fat, married, and laid back, but has a both common sense and a strong concept of duty. The original chief of police in Mineral Springs, although often filled with doubts about many of his officers, he supports them (if reluctantly) as long as they remain drug free and aren't thieves.
Officer Oscar Albert Jones - known as "O.A." (and sometimes "Outa Ammo") Jones, the 24-year old former surfer is one of the ten cops (most former misfits) in Mineral Springs. Formerly a cop in Laguna Beach and Palm Springs, he left both when he "felt it was time to move on" after incidents of questionable circumstances.
Sgt. Coy Brickman - A former San Diego police officer, where he knew Harry Bright, Brickman has cold, unblinking eyes and an ominous demeanor.
Trish Decker - Harry Bright's ex-wife, remarried to a wealthy man 29 years older than herself, Trish is a middle-aged blonde kept beautiful by cosmetic surgery and personal trainers.
Harlan Penrod - Victor Watson's gay, 60-year-old houseboy, and sometime surrogate father to Watson's dead son.
Billy Hightower - A huge African-American, Billy is president of the redneck Cobras outlaw motorcyle club and full-time crystal meth dealer, and a former San Bernadino County sheriff's deputy, fired for hitting his captain.
Beavertail Bigelow - A sixty-year-old " grimy wrinkled desert rat" who wanders in and out of the local cop bar, Bigelow accidentally and literally unearths an important clue in the death of Jack Watson.

-Lampoons- Wambaugh's novels are noted for numerous quirky but incidental characters, stereotypical lampoons of police officer "types" he either observed personally or the subjects of anecdotes related to him by officers. In The Secrets of Harry Bright the officers of the small, fictional Mineral Springs Police Department fill this role. The common thread linking them is their status as misfits elsewhere, and that all were recommended by Sgt. Harry Bright for hiring. Wambaugh expands his lampoons in The Secrets of Harry Bright to include two episodes depicting wealthy retired country clubbers, Archie Rosenkrantz and Fiona Grout, encountered by Blackpool and Stringer on golf courses.

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[hils-1] "An open letter to the airborne community". War Chonicles.com. Retrieved 26 Jul. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |accessyear= ignored (|access-date= suggested) (help)

[2] Dudney, Robert (2006). "The Magnificent Memorial". Air Force Magazine, Journal of the Air Force Association. {{cite journal}}: Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

[3] Todd Lamb, editor (2002). Ohio State Football Gameday. The Ohio State Athletics Communications Office. pp. 42–43. {{cite book}}: |author= has generic name (help)

[4] Robert F. Dorr (1998). "Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, Variant Briefing". In John Heathcott (ed.). Wings of Fame:The Journal of Class Combat Aircraft, Vol. 11. AIRTime Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1-86184-017-9., 119

[5] Jack Park (2002). "Francis Schmidt: Mr. Razzle Dazzle". The Official Ohio State Football Encyclopedia. Sports Publishing LLC. p. 141. ISBN 1582610061.

[6] Jim Tressel (2003). "Charlie Ream 1934-1937". In Jeff Snook (ed.). What It Means To Be A Buckeye. Triumph Books. p. 3. ISBN 1572436026.

[7] Richard H. Campbell (2005). "Appendix E: Project Alberta". The Silverplate Bombers: A History and Registry of the Enola Gay and Other B-29's Configured to Carry Atomic Bombs. McFarland & Company, Inc. ISBN 0786421398.

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 *'''Det. Otto Stringer''' - Blackpool's partner, about to turn forty, balding and overweight. Otto transferred to Homicide two months before, after a long tenure as a [[Narc (narcotics)|narcotics detective]], as a result of several brushes with death. He and Blackpool are old friends, having been partners twelve years before as uniformed cops. Stringer loves luxury but is practically bankrupt after two divorces.
 *'''Sgt. Harry Bright''' - A former [[San Diego Police Department]] sergeant, he joined the newly created Mineral Springs PD to be near his ex-wife, who divorced him to marry a wealthy financier she met while shopping. Although his reputation as both a good street cop and a good supervisor was unchallenged, Harry Bright drank heavily, often "sleeping it off" in Solitaire Canyon near Mineral Springs before being invalided by a [[stroke]] and subsequent [[heart attack]] the preceding March. His son Danny, a college student, perished in the crash of [[PSA Flight 182]] in 1978, after which he moved to  ineral Springs.
-*'''Victor Watson''' - Wealthy owner of [[high-tech]] Watson Industries and married to a famous film and television actress, Watson is 59 but looks ten years older. His son Jack was apparently kidnapped from their home in Palm Springs seventeen months before, and was found shot to death in the burned wreckage of his father's [[Rolls Royce]] in Solitaire Canyon.
+*'''Victor Watson''' - Wealthy owner of [[high-tech]] Watson Industries and married to a famous film and television actress, Watson is 59 but looks ten years older. His son Jack was apparently kidnapped from their home in Palm Springs seventeen months before and found shot to death in the burned wreckage of his father's [[Rolls Royce]] in Solitaire Canyon.
 :-Secondary characters
 *'''Chief Paco Pedroza''' - A former LAPD sergeant (for nine years) and [[Riverside County]] Sheriff's deputy (14 years), Pedroza is 51, fat, married, and laid back, but has a both common sense and a strong concept of duty. The original [[chief of police]] in Mineral Springs, although often filled with doubts about many of his officers, he supports them (if reluctantly) as long as they remain drug free and aren't thieves.