Samaritan
By: Richard Price.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; distributed by Random House
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
Subjects: Police -- New Jersey -- Fiction.; Victims of violent crimes -- Fiction.; High school teachers -- Fiction.; Policewomen -- Fiction.; New Jersey -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "After a lucrative television writing career comes to an abrupt end, ex-high school teacher Ray Mitchell returns to the New Jersey city of his birth - to rethink his life, reconnect with his teenage daughter and to spread the wealth on the housing project that reared him. He begins teaching again, embarks on 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 nearly to death in his own apartment. He knows who did 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 to tell her what happened.".

"Alternating between investigations of the people in Ray's life most likely to do him harm and listening to 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."--BOOK JACKET.