Homicide : A year on the killing streets
Author(s): David Simon
The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of men confronted by the darkest of American visions. David Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and his remarkable book is both a compelling account of casework and an investigation into our culture of violence. The narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator nearing the end of his career; Harry Edgerton, an iconoclastic black detective in a mostly white unit; and Tom Pellegrini, an earnest rookie who takes on the year's most difficult case, the brutal rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl.
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'A masterpiece...[Simon] has exceptional literary gifts of eye and ear. Few novelists have written so well about the corrosiveness of the modern American city.' - Martin Amis 'The best book about homicide detectives by an American writer.' - Norman Mailer 'Simon does an extraordinary job of getting under the skin and into the minds of the police officers.' - New York Times Book Review 'Remarkable...A True Crime Classic...a journalistic masterpiece of a brutal, bloody, bewildering year in the Baltimore Police Department's homicide unit.' - Associated Press
David Simon's Homicide won the Edgar and Anthony awards and became the basis for the NBC award-winng drama. Simon's second book, The Corner: A Year in the Life of An Inner-City Neighbourhood, co-authored with Edward Burns, was made into an Emmy-winning HBO miniseries. Simon is currently an executive producer and writer for HBO's Peabody Award-winning series THE WIRE. He lives in Baltimore.
General Fields
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- : Canongate Books Ltd
- : Canongate Books Ltd
- : 03 September 2008
- : 220mm X mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : David Simon
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 364.1523097526
- : 656
- : 1x 8 page plate section