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Homicide

A Year On The Killing Streets

David Simon, M. D.
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Pages
672
Year
2008
Language
English

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A masterpiece' MARTIN AMIS

'The best book about homicide detectives by an American writer' NORMAN MAILER

Based on a year on the killing streets of Baltimore, David Simon's true crime masterpiece reveals a city few will ever experience. Day in day out citizens are 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 who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world.

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"David Simon has single-handedly raised the bar for writing about crime, crime-fighting and the messy and imprecise business of justice to new and nearly unreachable levels . . . a work of tremendous ambition which made everything in the genre to follow irrelevant"
ANTHONY BOURDAIN
"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

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