Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991, Canongate edition 2008)

Simon's leave of absence from The Sun resulted in his first book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991).

Many of The Wires characters and incidents also came from Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991)

Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, 1991 book describing a year spent with the city's homicide detectives.

David Simon, author of Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets and The Corner.

Simon also spent time embedded with a homicide unit while researching his own book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.

The series was based on the book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets.

The program was based on a book, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, by David Simon, a college friend of Mills.

To cut costs director Golan uses many of the chase scenes from his 1991 release Killing Streets (also starring Pare).