content: David Simon's follow-up to Homicide, The Corner, is a look at the other side of the Baltimore crime beat. Simon and his collaborator, Burns, spent a year observing an active drug corner and the lives of it's key players and inhabitants. At times funny, triumphant, brooding, heartbreaking, and always compelling, their observations and insight into the reality of America's war on drugs, and the utter failure of drug policy, is eye opening. You'll never look at the drug problem, or the criminal justice system, the same way after reading this.