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Told from the points of view of both the Baltimore homicide and narcotics detectives and their targets, the series captures a universe in which the national war on drugs has become a permanent, self-sustaining bureaucracy, and distinctions between good and evil are routinely obliterated.

The line between the law and the street blurs as the drug war transforms into an unstoppable, self-sustaining machine. This sprawling portrait of Baltimore reveals how institutional rot consumes both the hunters and the hunted.

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