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After a lucrative tv writing career comes to an abrupt end, ex–senior high school teacher Ray Mitchell returns to the brand new Jersey city of his birth—to rethink his life, reconnect along with his teenage daughter and spread the wealth on the housing project that reared him. He begins teaching again, embarks by using an affair with a married woman from the old neighborhood and becomes a mentor to a former student recently released from jail.
Then, disaster: he is found beaten practically to death in his own apartment. He knows who achieved it, but he’s not talking, and he refuses to press charges.
It is up to Detective Nerese Ammons—a childhood acquaintance from the projects—to get Ray in order to her what happened.
Alternating between investigations of folks in Ray’s life probably to do him harm and hearing his fevered ramblings about their shared past as he slips in and out of consciousness, Nerese is charged not only with uncovering the perpetrator of this assault but with understanding what kind of victim is more afraid of
the truth than of his potential murderer.
The Washington Post Book World has hailed Richard Price as having “the best equipment a novelist can have—that mixture of muscularity, insight and compassion we would call heart.” Samaritan is an electrifying story of crime and punishment, of character and place, of children and their keepers—a novel of literary suspense that explores what happens when, swept up in the drama of one’s own generosity, inadequate is given, inadequate is understood and the results threaten to prove both tragic and deadly.
From the Hardcover edition.
