Cruising (novel)

Cruising (novel)
Cruising  
Author(s) Gerald Walker
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Crime novel
Publisher Stein and Day
Publication date 1970
Media type Print (Hardback)
Pages 192
ISBN 0812813235
OCLC Number 89443
Dewey Decimal 813/.5/4
LC Classification PZ4.W1782 Cr PS3573

Cruising is a novel written by New York Times reporter Gerald Walker and published in 1970.

The novel is about an undercover cop looking for a homosexual killer in the world of sadomasochism leather gay bars in Greenwich Village, New York.

The novel was adapted, with substantial changes to the plot, as the 1980 film of the same title, starring Al Pacino and Karen Allen.

Release details

Walker, Gerald. Cruising. Stein and Day, 1970. ISBN 0-8128-1323-5


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