By Brian Garfield
Paul Benjamin, a profitable accountant in long island urban, is having fun with a three-martini lunch whilst his house is damaged into through a gang of drug addicts. for only a handful of cash, they savagely beat Paul's spouse and daughter, leaving his spouse lifeless and his daughter comatose. Grief-stricken and compelled to reevaluate his perspectives, Benjamin turns into dissatisfied with society and plots his revenge at the perpetrators, whom the police are not able to carry to justice. Armed with a revolver and overall put out of your mind for his personal security, he units out to even the score.
tailored right into a characteristic movie starring Charles Bronson that spawned 4 sequels over twenty years, Death Wish is a gritty, robust mystery approximately simply how some distance a guy will be driven prior to he loses keep watch over.
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