Up close and personal with British gangs
Before The Wire became the most lauded cult television show of the era, before the Nick Hornbys and Zadie Smiths of this world staged a cultural land-grab on it, before its leading man Dominic West married into a family of Irish aristocrats, its crea
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By Gavin Knight
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Before The Wire became the most lauded cult television show of the era, before the Nick Hornbys and Zadie Smiths of this world staged a cultural land-grab on it, before its leading man Dominic West married into a family of Irish aristocrats, its creator David Simon wrote Homicide.
The book didn’t sell millions. Back then, in 1991, Simon was an ...
