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David Simon: Homicide and Passages from The Wire

David Simon, Homicide , Home of Books, Barcelona, \u200b\u200b2010, translated by Andrés Silva .

"Has there ever been a sergeant in order not to look over his glasses? What gruñera no paperwork to the inspector's arrival will mean, at three in the morning? Did ever sergeants and officers who had no more than fifty years, six months to collect his pension, whose movements were slower than death itself "(p. 319)

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"McLarney, who once drove to his house during a particularly busy shift to rescue his wife and son of a menacing Mouse, whom he killed with his .38 in the bedroom closet. 'I cleared it, "he said upon returning to the office. But for a while leave me where I was raised as a warning to others' "(p. 171).

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"For Edgerton, the consummate loner, the investigation of a murder is an individual task and secluded. In his mind conceived as a single combat between an inspector and the murderer, a confrontation in which the other chief inspectors, lieutenants and all other agencies of the police department has no other work out of the way for the inspector Main case to work "(p. 323).

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"But even when an officer arrived with the idea to pull out a bonus, it went straight to the narcotics unit, or the game or any other unit in which an inspector could throw down a door and find 100 000 dollars under a mattress " (Pp. 305-306).

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Homicide (1991) is not a book of fiction, but a newspaper report. Simon was written after spending a year integrated "police trainee" in the police in Baltimore (USA). After this book write The Corner , who became TV series, but Homicide has an obvious relation to the series The Wire. is a highly recommended book for lovers of investigative journalism, written documentation to the overwhelming characteristic of the genre in the U.S., but with a great sense of narrative rhythm and numerous details of genius in descriptions, notes sociological ways of observing people and ease of synthesis.