Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets – David Simon
Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets is the new book by the author who inspired the TV series The Wire – David Simon.
“Fans of the acclaimed television series The Wire won’t be surprised to learn that the programme has its roots planted firmly in reality. Twenty years ago, its creator David Simon, then a young crime reporter in Baltimore, spent 12 months as a fly on the wall with the city’s homicide unit. The resulting book, Homicide, not only spawned two huge shows (the other being Barry Levinson’s seminal series of the same name), but also stands as one of the best studies of policing ever written.” The Times
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 city’s homicide unit, a small brotherhood of men confronted by the darkest of American visions.
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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.
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