Samaritan

Zusatztext 'A crafty whodunnit and a compelling character study ... wholly believable and blessed with wire-sharp wit. The Projects are the most affecting character of all! though - life-draining smears across the landscape that bear silent witness to the poverty and despair behind the American dream. One of the books of the year' Informationen zum Autor Richard Price is the author of five other books. He is also the internationally renowned Hollywood screenwriter of Sea of Love , The Color of Money and Ransom . Klappentext Successful Hollywood writer Ray decides to return to the New Jersey projects of his youth in order to give something back to the community, and volunteers to teach creative writing at his old school. But one night he's savagely beaten and rushed to hospital. The only cop interested is a childhood friend, 'Tweetie' Ammons, who owes him one from long ago. It turns out that Ray knows who did it, but he's not talking. Although Tweetie is on the cusp of retirement she is determined to help Ray but finds herself being drawn into a dark and deadly drama. The classic crime thriller by the award-winning writer on The Wire Zusammenfassung The classic crime thriller by the award-winning writer on The Wire

Product details

• Authors: Richard Price, Price Richard
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 01.06.2009
• EAN: 9780747598190
• ISBN: 978-0-7475-9819-0
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 196 mm x 31 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Bilingual editions > German/English; Fiction > Suspense; FICTION / Thrillers / General, NON-CLASSIFIABLE, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Action & Adventure, Thriller / suspense fiction, Stationery and miscellaneous items, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction