God's Pocket

From back cover - "Leon Hubbard had it coming. So when the arrogant and near psychotic youth was killed on a South Philadelphia construction site in front of the whole crew, everyone who knew him wanted to bury the bad news with the body. All, that is, except two - Leon's mother and the local columnist of the common man. Because only a mother could love a boy like that. And only a crusading outsider would dream of digging too deeply into the mean streets and wasted lives of the neighborhood they called God's Pocket..."