Homicide (eBook)

A Year On The Killing Streets

David Simon (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2008
871 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84767-390-9 (ISBN)

Infos

'A masterpiece' MARTIN AMIS 'The best book about homicide detectives by an American writer' NORMAN MAILER Based on a year on the killing streets of Baltimore, David Simon's true crime masterpiece reveals a city few will ever experience. Day in day out citizens are shot, stabbed, or bludgeoned to death. At the centre of this hurricane of crime is the city's homicide unit, a small brotherhood of men who fight for whatever justice is possible in a deadly world.

Autor

David Simon is an author, journalist, producer and script writer and is best known as the creator of HBO's Peabody Award-winning series The Wire. His first book, the international bestseller Homicide, won the Edgar Award and the Anthony Award and became the basis for the NBC award-winning drama. His second book, The Corner: A Year in the Life of An Inner-City Neighbourhood, co-authored with Edward Burns, was made into an Emmy-winning HBO miniseries. Simon also co-created the HBO series Generation Kill with Ed Burns, and Treme with Eric Overmyer. He lives in Baltimore.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.10.2008
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Einführung: Richard Price
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Antihero • Latonya Kim Wallace • police drama • police procedural • The Corner • The Wire • True Crime
• ISBN-10: 1-84767-390-2 / 1847673902
• ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-390-9 / 9781847673909