The Equalizer

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I would like to thank my terrific editor at Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, Brendan Deneen, for his wisdom and encouragement. I would also like to take this opportunity to thank some people who have really helped my career through the years: my manager, Peter Meyer; Richard Lindheim, my co-creator on The Equalizer TV series; my (at onetime) agent Lou Pitt; Peter Fischer; Robert Dozier; Jerry Thorpe; Glen Larson; Stu Erwin; Gregg Maday; my sister Judy; to Robert Campbell (a mentor); and to all of my friends who have always supported me and cared for me in England and Canada and the United States — you know who you are!; to the late, great Edward Woodward, who brought such style and energy to the role of Robert McCall in the CBS TV series; and to the incomparable Denzel Washington, who is a fantastic movie Equalizer.

Robert McCall stopped at the mouth of a narrow alleyway behind a row of stores on Broome Street on the edge of Greenwich Village. It was an alleyway he’d passed a thousand times without bothering to look into it. He knew what was in it: Dumpsters overflowing with garbage, a thin carpet of debris, crushed cans and water bottles, used condoms, cigarette butts, newspapers, crumpled flyers, discarded confetti as if someone had tried to bring some color to the drab grayness. Doorways on the left led to the backs of the stores, a print shop, a greengrocers, a Chinese restaurant, a mom-and-pop grocery store. There were two iron doors on the right, warped on rusted hinges. There was a landscape of big cardboard boxes at the other end of the alleyway, jumbled up: people’s homes.

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