![]() ![]() The level of access the pair of authors gained into the lives of their subjects is incredible. The book is a re-issue, but a worthwhile one: this is a mammoth work of non-fiction written like a novel that takes readers to the cracked and broken front of the failed war on drugs. If you wondered how they made their dialogue, characters and street scenes so gritty, the answer lies within these 628 pages. While such first-person research could well get you tagged by a nine, David Simon and Ed Burns spent all of 1993 on those vial-strewn sidewalks and lived to tell the tale - and what a tale it is.īurns, a former schoolteacher and detective, and Simon, a one-time Baltimore Sun crime reporter, are the same duo behind television's The Wire. If you don't know your ground-stash from your re-up, or your crudball move from your everyday caper, you clearly haven't spent enough time hanging around the junkies and drug dealers who live and work in West Baltimore's crack markets. ![]()
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