Samaritan

Ray Mitchell is lying in a hospital bed, drifting in and out of consciousness, his head a bloody mess of swabs and bandages. He knows who did it, but he's not saying.
A successful and wealthy TV scriptwriter, he decided to return to the mean streets of his youth - the projects of Dempsey, New Jersey, across the river from the glittering metropolis of New York - in order to try and give something back to the community where he grew up. But being charitable isn't always easy, and parachuting back into his childhood life was never going to be without its difficulties.
In true Richard Price tradition, Samaritan has all the elements of a thriller and all the depth and beauty and characterisation of a literary masterpiece.