At the heart of the action

It is not hard to forget everything you read really happened: everything in the book seems beyond = = real and seems from a novel. But it was not.
David Simon probably had sweat blood to organize the story of this year at the crime squad. As he himself wrote he chained "shifts" to "shifts" painfully recovering from its bitures and was on top of it trying to bring out a book of all his notes.

However, he managed to make the macabre panting lives of these men who often have as the only satisfaction of work well done and especially to see on the whiteboard, the name of a victim change color.

One of the strengths of the book is that it allows to see the intricacies of shelled investigator to work as well as those of the US judicial system. It also documents the beginnings of an earthquake for the work of the police force with the arrival of DNA.

Do not forget the permanent, almost suffocating, of the city of Baltimore in which there are issues deeply rooted in American history.

The book is rich, bursting with anecdotes and colorful characters, a true reading pleasure, a large 8 of over 900 pages is allowed only after the Fourth of coverage achieved.

Note that it was the basis for the series "Homicide." However the link is more to do on the tone of the series on fidelity to the text.