Atlantic - Little brown, 1970, 376 pages The New Centurions is fiction, but everything in it is real. The new centurions are three Los Angeles policemen: Serge Duran, a tough, competent Mexican-American and ex-Marine who learns everything fast— except how to forget his Mexican blood; Gus Pleb-esly, a little man with the face of a baby, the speed of an antelope, and a panicky fear of violence; and Roy Fehler, a college man with ideas like a social worker, who discovers —too late-that you can get killed that way. Made into movie 1972 - starring George C Scott, Stacey Keach, Erik Estrada