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Rated: 4 times. Average rating 4.75
Description
From the author of the best-selling Clockers and Freedomland, a brilliant new novel of literary suspense -- a story of crime, punishment, and the impulse to do good.After a successful television career in L.A., Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey housing project where he grew up -- to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter, and above all, give back to the community. Things are looking up: He's seeing a woman from the old neighborhood and teaching at his high school. Then, disaster: He is found savagely beaten. He knows who did it, but he's not talking and won't press charges.It's up to Detective Nerese Ammons -- a childhood acquaintance from the projects -- to get Ray to tell her what happened. As he slips in and out of consciousness, his mind slips from present to past, and we enter the years in which he and Nerese encountered each other across lines of money, class, and race -- the same lines that Nerese must reach across now to reforge her connection to Ray, so that he will reveal the truth before it's too late.Samaritan is an intimate, morally complex, and compulsively readable novel that explores what happens when, caught up in the drama of one's own generosity, too little is given, too little is understood, and the result turns both tragic and potentially deadly.
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- Lush Life (2008)
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- Freedomland (2005)
- Clockers (2008)
- Samaritan (2003)
- The Wanderers (1999)
