Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

[Signal20]

What an amazing story! David Simon does a fantastic job of taking an actual year with the Baltimore Police homicide division and making it read like fiction. Simon doesn't report this story he tells this story. The quarks and skills that make up all good detectives is captured in detail. The fact that an award winning TV series was spurned from the pages in this book shows that life can be stranger than fiction.

 

[Sgt Pepper]

This is a must for anyone who's into the crime book genre.

A real life account of a year on the streets that raises the bar for anything that follows it.

 

[Peder]

Thanks Sarge, for bumping up. Missed the first post, but now the book is on order. :flowers:

 

[chiangmaifalcon]

This was really great book. Better than tv show which they made unrealistic with political mcorrect stuff that is not like real life, in my opinion.