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Homicide

A Year on the Killing Streets

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Homicide

By: David Simon
Narrated by: Reed Diamond
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Through wonderfully descriptive writing, Simon details the work of 15 detectives, three sergeants and a lieutenant charged with investigating dozens of Baltimore's 234 murders that year. Simon takes listeners inside the detectives' lives, describing the frustration of departmental red tape and politics, the bursts of energy and moments of despair.

With an eye for the scenes of slaughter and pursuit and an ear for the cadences of cop talk, both business and banter, Simon gives this brilliant, harrowing account its authenticity and fascinating edge.

Simon plants us so close to these detectives that we see everything - the Police Department, the prosecutors, the courts, the city of Baltimore itself - from their angle.

This is a never-before-seen look at what it's really like to investigate murders for a living.

©1997 David Simon (P)1997 Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, A Division of Random House, Inc. Crime Murder True Crime Baltimore Exciting Detective Solider

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A compelling insight into the ugliest side of humanity. At times disturbing at times amusing. Well worth the listen.

Not for the faint hearted

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So much talent in this book from the gifted writer to the fantastic voice artist.
Now I understand why people could sit around their 'wireless' many years ago and never ever need television. Amazing talent, informative and very entertaining.

Surprisingly Fantastic, the best so far

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Where The Wire and Homicide came from. Great listen to intriguing cop tales from Baltimore's streets.

Memories of Homicide - Life on the Street

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A fantastic a gritty telling of life on the streets. I just wish it was longer. But as it is nonfiction such a wish would be wrong.

Fantastic

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