Homicide : a year on the killing streets /
The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center 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...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Picador/Henry Holt and Company,
2006.
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| Edition: | 1st Owl Books ed. |
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| Summary: | The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the center 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. Originally published fifteen years ago, Homicide became the basis for the acclaimed television show of the same name. This new edition--which includes a foreword by Richard Price and a new afterword by David Simon--revives this essential, riveting tale about the men for whom murder is not an extraordinary act but the source of their calling. |
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| Item Description: | Originally published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1991. |
| Physical Description: | xv, 646 p., [8] p. of plates, : ill. ; 21 cm |
| ISBN: | 0805080759 9780805080759 |