Clockers

The story is told in back-and-forth narration, switching each chapter between the dealer Strike and the Homicide Detective Rocco’s point of view. This might’ve been done unintentionally, but it seems unlikely; this way of storytelling perfectly portrays the parallels and similarities between these two men, with the murder mystery that makes up the plot pushed practically to the background.

The young Strike is constantly thinking of leaving Dempsy, the slums that he lives in. He’s always planning on how to take the thousands of dollars that he’s made from dealing round the clock and moving away, starting a new life that wont be so dangerous.

The over-the-hill Rocco is looking for a way to keep making money after he retires from the force. For a while, he sees his meal-ticket in an actor, Sean Touhey, who is going to play a detective in his next movie and is shadowin

In one scene of remarkable emotion, after Touhey has ditched the police movie and Rocco along with it, Rocco’s daughter goes missing in their apartment building. He frantically searches for her, thoughts runnning through his head about the likelihood of finding a missing child in this city and whether or not his wife is too old to have another child. Eventually, he finds her, holding her in a moment that he vows to never forget, the moment when he was most grateful to have his daughter in his life. Afterwards, he decides he shouldn’t retire as soon as possible, that he likes his job too much.

After this book is finished, you’re not left with qualms about whether or not you were right about who the murderer turned out to be; you’re left with a sort of familiar feeling for the two, hoping that they stay happy with themselves, content with what they have.

But it’s still a story of the two character’s point of view, how they correspond with their world and how the residents behave around them. Both of them are infamous for their separate occupations, one a dealer and one a detective who busts dealers and murderers, and both of them approach this almost celeb

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