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  • Homicide

  • A Year on the Killing Streets
  • By: David Simon
  • Narrated by: Reed Diamond
  • Length: 6 hrs and 7 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (1,494 ratings)

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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.
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Not complete!

This is great performance. But there is a lot of content missing! Why? I would love to hear am audiobook That matches the book 😭😭😭😭

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Incredible, the inspiration for “The Wire”

This is a short book but it gives great insight into the life of a detective and you can see how the wire was created from this book. There is some fascinating stuff in here, I listen once every six months.

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a SALVE not a SLAVE - WHERE do they get these NARR

that cannot read? illiteracy is not a good "sound". learn how to read and/or how to correct your own errors (it is quite obvious that there is no editing process for audiobooks.

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amazing

I can honestly say this is one of the most engaging books I've ever listened to. I will reccomend it to everyone I know, and that is no exageration!

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Excellent'

I love black and red books, movies, podcasts, and tv shows! This book was so well written and performed and I enjoyed it tremendously!

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Avoid abridged books

Great reader and good story but that's as far as it goes because you only got a portion of the whole piece. Stay away from abridged works in genres like this.

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Great!

I listened to this book on the basis of other reviews. They are right! Homicide has a terrific reader, is well written, and is a blast to listen to. This is a fun, interesting listen that should make us all appreciate detectives and policemen even more.

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worth the listen

if you like true crime and how it works from the detective side this is a great read. I have been hearing about this book from a podcast for over a year and I got around to reading it. I wish I had earlier.

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Great book

The only problem with this book is that it's not long enough. Does a great job showing how tough it is to be a cop in a big city and unfortunately, how little respect is given for human lives

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Baltimore native

Being from Baltimore I found this book very enjoyable and correct for that time period.

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