With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.
Thích Nhất Hạnh
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H
ooker was young, pretty...and dead, butchered in a Greenwich village apartment. Prime suspect, a minister's son, was also dead, a jailhouse suicide. NYPD closed case, but girl's dad asks ex-cop Matthew Scudder in. The stench of sleaze and perversion soaks sordid phony religion and murderous lust where children die for their parents' secret, unspeakable sins.