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Who else-but Joseph Wambaugh might create "a pleasure, a hoot, a riot of the guide" that's also recommended as "among this year's greatest crime books"? That's howThe Ny Times Book Review and Period, respectively, explained his last story, Finnegan's Week. Nobody creates a faster, funnier, as pleasing story of cops and crooks, the high-life and low-lifes that Wambaugh--and Floaters is his sharpest yet.Mick Fortney and his companion Leeds have the ability to sail above the conventional authorities strain-pools of espresso and Pepto-Bismol--they truly are water cops within the "Membership Harbor Device," manning a patrol vessel on North Park's Mission Bay. An usually tough evening's depth includes scoping out body-attractive girls on pleasure craft, saving boating bozos who've run aground, jeering at guards, and carrying in the sporadic floater who involves the surface.But today their nights are anything but common, since the America's Cup international sailing regattas came to town and abruptly North Park is crowding with boat crazies of each nationality, the cuppies who want to enjoy them, and the looky-search vacationers, rushing agents, con artists, and hookers who all want their bit of the action.