Fire Engines

by Rob Leicester Wagner

Hardcover and dust jacket, as pictured; "FIRE ENGINES" written on bottom outside edge of pages (vc)

120 pages, Hardcover

First published October 1, 1996

About the author

Rob Leicester Wagner is a veteran newspaper reporter and editor. He began his journalism career in 1974 reporting for his hometown weekly in Sierra Madre, Calif., and for 30 years worked for Southern California suburban daily newspapers. He covered urban affairs in the 1970s and immigration issues, the police beat and legal affairs in the 1980s and early 1990s. He rose through the reporting and editor ranks to become managing editor of a daily newspaper. He also maintained a free-lance career as a regular contributor for true crime publications, numerous automotive magazines and the Los Angeles Daily Journal, a legal newspaper.

Since 2004 Wagner has been reporting on politics, social issues and religion from Saudi Arabia. He was managing editor of the English-language Saudi Gazette in Jeddah, and later held the same position at the Arab News. As an independent journalist he writes for The Arab Weekly and the International Business Times, which are both based in London. He also writes for Thomson Reuters and Lonely Planet.

Wagner has authored more than 20 books on a wide range of topics, including automotive history, municipal architecture, and Southern California and film history. His latest book, "Hollywood Bohemia: The Roots of Progressive Politics in Rob Wagner's Script (Janaway, 2016)," traces the socialist politics of Hollywood's only leftist film magazine, published by his great-grandfather Rob Wagner, during cinema's Golden Age.

Wagner continues to reside in Saudi Arabia.