Memo From Turner
by Tim Willocks
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Pub Date Mar 12 2019 | Archive Date Mar 15 2019
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Description
What happens when a man of ferocious integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption?
A young South African fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His step-father-who does know-makes sure she dies. The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate and absolute ruler of her town and its officials, intends to keep her son ignorant of his fatal accident. But this case falls to a relentless warrant officer: Turner of Cape Town homicide.
When he drives to this remote isolated mining town-one totally controlled by Margot Le Roux-Turner finds her determined to protect her son and tries to buy him off. But Turner will not be bought or bullied.
By the time Turner returns and his counter-attack is finished, fourteen have died-and we see Tim Willocks again as the laureate of the violent thriller.
A Note From the Publisher
Tim Willocks is a novelist and screenwriter. Translated into twenty languages, his novels include The Religion, Bad City Blues, Green River Rising, and The Twelve Children of Paris. He has worked with major Hollywood directors, dined at the White House, and holds a black belt in Shotokan karate.
Advance Praise
“Willocks has borrowed stock elements from old forms and cobbled them into one fine thriller…Formulas in place, Willocks abandons them for something better…A fine crime novel that delights in upending our expectations.”
-Booklist
“Willocks holds nothing back in this impressive crime novel featuring a relentless and incorruptible black South African police officer…Fans of the gritty and gory work of James Ellroy and Paul Cleave will appreciate Willocks.”
-Publishers Weekly
“It’s twenty-four years since Willocks’ Green River Rising was published. Memo from Turner is even better. It’s a devastating indictment of modern South Africa.”
-Evening Standard
“The clash of personalities that follows is delivered with unrelenting impact, and there are echoes here of the late American novelist Robert Stone in this picture of endemic corruption. But neither Stone nor Deon Meyer can touch Willocks’ formidable body count.”
-Financial Times
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Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781538519615 |
| PRICE | $26.99 (USD) |
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