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.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781782116301Number of pages: 672Weight: 484 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 37 mmEdition: Main - Canons Edition
MEDIA REVIEWS
'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
'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
'True genius'- Sunday Times
'A hard-nosed classic'- GQ
'An extraordinary book'- Guardian
'Brilliant... desolate,sharp,poetic and passionate'- Financial Times
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