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Rocco Klein, veteran homicide detective, has had enough of life on the edge. When a warm summer night brings yet another drug-related murder, he has no sense that the case is anything special. A young black man steps forward to confess but a little digging reveals that he's never been…
Why read it?
1 author picked Clockers as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This novel that taught a whole generation of us that the system is the story.
Price gives you the dealer on the corner and the homicide cop working his case with so much patience that you stop choosing a side and start watching the whole machine (corner, precinct, courts) grind everyone down to spare parts. Nobody writes dialogue that breathes like this. It’s no accident he went on to write for The Wire.
I return to this book whenever I need to remember that real authority lives in procedure, in paperwork, in who gets believed, and that you can…
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