Clockers

Rocco Klein, veteran homicide detective, has had enough of life on the edge. When a warm summer night brings yet another drug-related murder, he has no sense that the case is anything special. A young black man steps forward to confess but a little digging reveals that he’s never been in any kind of trouble, whereas his half-brother, Strike, runs a crew of street-corner coke dealers ‘clockers’ in a nearby housing project. Soon Rocco is sure that Strike is the real killer and suddenly Rocco’s appetite for the job is back. With a vengeance.

Author Biography

Richard Price spent four years with dealers and cops on the streets of urban America researching the raw material for Clockers. His first novel, The Wanderers, was a literary sensation when it was published in 1974. Three other novels followed – Bloodbrothers, Ladies’ Man, and The Breaks, but more recently Price has become one of Hollywood’s most successful screenwriters. The Color of Money – for which he received an Oscar Nomination – and Sea of Love are two of his credits. Clockers was directed by Spike Lee and starred Harvey Keitel and John Turturro.