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Homicide
A
Year
on
the
Killing
Streets
Description
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.