Ground Zero. Not only the greatest American television drama series ever created, but probably the greatest work of fiction in any medium from the last decade. Amazing.

Possibly the best Season, where all the threads come together, oh so beautifully.

Fascinating guide to the first two Seasons with some great insights from David Simon.

This book. Simon investigates ordinary life on a Corner in Baltimore and studies the effect of drugs upon its residents. Moving and angry, never less than great.

Set in Baltimore and featuring some very familiar locations and characters, this has some of the Wires humour and depth of characterisation, but in a far more conventional context.

The music of the Wire. at last you can own the closing theme, Blake Lyeh's The Fall. And 5 versions of "Way Down In the Hole".

The first of the Wire's "Holy Trinity" of Big Gun crime writers. Every Pelecanos book is worthwhile, but "Right As Rain" (included here) might be his best. Deals with similar themes to the show, too..

Price is an experienced screenwriter, but its his work as a novelist that qualifies him to write The Wire. Especially this book.

David Simon's next HBO show is an adaptation of this stunning journalistic account of one Marine Unit's experience of the Iraq War. It should make for great, harrowing TV...

The entire Epic in one spiffy box. If you buy Season 1, you will eventually want them all, so why wait?