Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon

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From the creator of HBO’s The Wire, the classic book about homicide investigation that became the basis for the hit television show.

Set in Baltimore, David Simon details how twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this whirlwind of crime is the city’s homicide unit, a small brotherhood of hard men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world.

Simon was the first reporter ever to gain unlimited access to a homicide unit, and this electrifying book tells the true story of a year on the violent streets of an American city

Originally published fifteen years ago, Homicide became the basis for the critically acclaimed television show of the same name.

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