Win a copy of The Wire: Truth Be Told, signed by David Simon [closed]
The Wire has been widely hailed as the greatest television series of all time. It portrays the war of attrition between the city’s hardened police force, and its drug dealers, and the blurring of good and evil, justice and injustice, right and wrong. Truth Be Told is the definitive guide.
Over its five series The Wire has built up a detailed, rich and layered portrait of Baltimore: from its corner buys touting dope and its dock workers facing extinction, through the strained education system and tainted halls of power, to the crumbling media establishment.
Rafael Alvarez – a reporter, essayist and staff writer for the show – brings the reader inside this world, detailing many of the real-life incidents and personalities that have inspired the show’s storylines and characters. Packed with photographs and featuring an introduction by series creator and executive producer David Simon, as well as essays by acclaimed authors George Pelecanos, Ed Burns, Richard Price, Laura Lipmann, Denis Lehane, it covers all fives series in glorious detail – and we have two copies of this wonderful tome for you to win, signed by David Simon.*
The question
To win, we need you to answer this question:
Which of the essayists who has contributed to The Wire: Truth Be Told co-wrote an earlier book with David Simon that’s also published by Canongate?
a. Richard Price
b. Ed Burns
c. George Pelecanos
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No more submissions accepted at this time.Competition rules
- Closing date for entries: 25th September 2009.
- Open to residents of the United Kingdom only.
- Entry to the competition is by completion of the above form only.
- The winners will be chosen at random from those correct entries received before the closing date.
- Only the winning entrants will be contacted by Bookhugger. Our decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
- The winner’s name(s) and entries may be published on the Bookhugger website after the closing date of the competition.
- The competition is not open to Bookhugger employees and their families, or to employees of Bookhugger publishers and their families.
* If such things are important to you, the signatures are on signed plates attached to the books, and not directly on the books themselves.
