Homicide. A Year On The Killing Streets

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Canongate Trade
Publisher Place: Edinburgh
Publisher Year: 2009
Edition: First Edition

Description: 646 pages. Book is in general good condition. There is some light reading wear present, but still a presentable copy.

Publishers Description: The scene is Baltimore. Twice every three days another citizen is shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the cente of this hurricane of crime is the citys 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 years most difficult case, the brutal rape and murder of an eleven-year-old girl.

ISBN: 9781847673121