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• Language: English
• Author: Fenton, Justin
• Book Title: We Own This City

NOW A MAJOR SKY ATLANTIC SERIES 'Unputdownable . . . fantastic and
terrifying.' Nihal Arthanayake, RADIO 5 The astonishing true story of 'one of
the most startling police corruption scandals in a generation' (New York
Times) Baltimore, 2015. Riots were erupting across the city. Drug and violent
crime were surging, with homicides reaching their highest level in over two
decades. For years, Sgt Wayne Jenkins and his elite team of plain-clothed
officers - the Gun Trace Task Force - had been the city's lauded heroes,
working to get drugs and guns off the streets. But all the while they had been
stealing drugs and money and gaming the system. Because who would believe the
dealers, the smugglers or the people who had simply been going about their
daily business over the word of the city's elite task force? 'A work of
journalism that not only chronicles the rise and fall of a corrupt police
unit, but can stand as the inevitable coda to the half-century of disaster
that is the American drug war.' David Simon Read more