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A Year on the Killing Streets
Holt Paperbacks
September 2006
On Sale: August 22, 2006
672 pages
ISBN: 0805080759
EAN: 9780805080759
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Suspense | Fiction
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 hard men who fight for whatever
justice is possible in a deadly world. David 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. The
narrative follows Donald Worden, a veteran investigator,
Harry Edgerton, a 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. Meanwhile, Baltimore is plagued by
racial tensions and a drug epidemic, and the detectives
often feel that the rising tide of chaos is about to swamp
them completely. Originally published 15 years ago, Homicide
became the basis for the acclaimed television show of the
same name. This new edition--which includes an introduction,
an afterword, and photographs--revives a classic of its
kind, a riveting tale about the men who work on the dark
side of the American experience.
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