Homicide
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- ISBN13: 9780804109994
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
Edgar and Anthony Award Winner
Selected by the Literary Guild
“Remarkable…A right crime classic.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Enter the workday of real policemen. Follow fifteen detectives, three sergeants, and a lieutenant, whose job it is to investigate Baltimore’s 234 murders. You will get a cop’s-eye-view of the bureaucracy, the highs of success, the moments of despair, and the non-stop rush of pursuits, rage, wit, and violence that make up a cop’s life. Now an acclaimed television series, this extraordinary book is the insider’s look at what you have permanently wondered about.
Amazon.com Review
This 1992 Edgar Award winner for best fact crime is nothing fleeting of a classic. David Simon, a police reporter for the Baltimore Sun, spent the year 1988 with three homicide squads, accompanying them through all the grim and grisly moments of their work–from first telephone call to final piece of red tape. The picture that emerges through a masterful accumulation of details is that homicide detectives are a rare breed who seem to thrive on coffee, cigarettes, and persistence, through an endlessly exhausting parade of murder scenes. As the Washington Post writes, “We seem to have an insatiable appetite for police tales…. David Simon’s entry is far and away the best, the most readable, the most reliable and relentless of them all…. An eye for the scenes of slaughter and pursuit and an ear for the cadences of cop talk, both business and wit, lend Simon’s account the fascination that truth regularly has.”
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I really have to be neutral about this product. I sent it back-I never ordered it, it got to me by mistake.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
The first season is a near-perfect translation of the events in the book. I have the first season DVD set and I didn’t get anything out of the book that I didn’t get out of the show. I establish the book to be incredibly dull; I only read 2/3 of it.
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
what was the most most amusing parts were is when dave brown and donald worden kept pestering one another.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
The leader develops this plot so slowly that I’m amazed he is a journalist by profession. Perhaps that’s a refelction of why television journalism today is so lousy. I establish the development of the plot and the writing of the book so cumbersome that I’ve place it down and read additional books three times…. Oh I’ll end it on some night when I’ve read and reread all additional books in the house….
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
If you are a fan of the HBO show the Wire, this book is a excellent companion piece.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5