Homicide - A Year On The Killing Streets
Verlag | Canongate Books |
Auflage | 2015 |
Seiten | 672 |
Format | 12,8 x 19,9 x 3,8 cm |
Gewicht | 495 g |
Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
ISBN-10 | 1782116303 |
EAN | 9781782116301 |
Bestell-Nr | 78211630UA |
\'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.
Rezension:
A masterpiece . . . Simon has exceptional literary gifts of eye and ear. Few novelists have written so well about the corrosiveness of the modern American city MARTIN AMIS