Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. dj. Hardcover first edition - Both a gripping murder mystery and the story of two lives - that of a cop and a drug dealer - on a collision course, set in the gritty inner city. The title 'clockers' refers to street corner cocaine dealers. Shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Basis for the Spike Lee movie of the same name. 599 pp. ISBN: 0-395-537614.