David Simon

One of the hottest tickets of the 2009 Book Festival, we were
thrilled the creator and writer of HBO's universally acclaimed TV
series The Wire, took time out to come to Edinburgh for the Book
Festival. David Simon first posed the question 'Are America's
inner cities unpoliceable?' eighteen years ago in his
award-winning Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. Now
re-issued, the gripping, gut-churning account of his twelve month
stint on the streets with the Baltimore police is factual
storytelling to rival Mailer and Capote. An utterly fascinating
event.