Show Me a Hero - A Tale of Murder, Suicide, Race, and Redemption

In this highly acclaimed book (the basis of a new HBO miniseries, produced by David Simon, creator of The Wire) Lisa Belkin brings to life a landmark public housing case in Yonkers, New York in riveting detail. What began with a judge's order to build scattered-site public housing in middle-class neighbourhoods, ended in the near destruction of a city - sparking prejudices, fanning emotions into flame and eventually leading to murder and suicide. Belkin's sympathetic portrait of the people at the centre of this crisis - hopeful, fearful, greedy, manipulative, the gamut of human behaviour - is page-turning to its powerful, redemptive end.

Product details

• Authors: Lisa Belkin, Belkin Lisa
• Assisted by: David Simon (Introduction), Simon David (Introduction)
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.08.2015
• EAN: 9781447295334
• ISBN: 978-1-4472-9533-4
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 200 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense > Crime fiction, thrillers, espionage; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Social groups, Urban communities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination