phenomen a book

After getting a job at a fastfood chain with the encouraging words of getting thrown out of the house if he doesn''''t get a job in the next two weeks nick begins to walk back home taking a shortcut through an alleyway and plugs in his earphones to block out the sounds of traffic. When nick makes a left turn on his path he notices an attempted robbery acting out in front of him. The would be robber mistaken nick with his phone out for recording him because he suddenly stabbed him 7 times. Now nick is on the side of someone''''s house unconscious bleeding to death.