Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

Journalist David Simon spent an entire year embedded with Baltimore's homicide division, capturing the relentless grind, gallows humour and moral complexity of investigating murder in a declining American city. The immersive, genre-defining account later served as the basis for the acclaimed television series Homicide: Life on the Street and permanently redefined the craft of police reportage.

ISBN 9780553478341 · · 1991