Memo From Turner

Tim Willocks

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Jonathan Cape Ltd
15 August 2018

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Thriller & suspense

The new thriller from the author of The Religion and The Twelve Children of Paris
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What happens when a man of absolute integrity finds himself trapped in a world of absolute corruption?

During a weekend spree in Cape Town a young, rich Afrikaner fatally injures a teenage street girl with his Range Rover but is too drunk to know that he has hit her. His companions - who do know - leave the girl to die.

The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate called Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law is cheap. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town homicide.

When Turner travels to the remote mining town that Margot owns - including the local police and private security force - he finds her determined to protect her son at any cost. As the battle of wills escalates, and the moral contradictions multiply, Turner won't be bought and won't be bullied, and when they try to bury him he rediscovers, during a desperate odyssey to the very brink of death, a long-forgotten truth about himself...

By the time Willocks's tale is finished, fourteen men have died. He shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller.

By: Tim Willocks
Imprint: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 605g
ISBN: 9781787330887
ISBN 10: 1787330885
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 15 August 2018
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Tim Willocks is a novelist, screenwriter and producer. Translated into twenty languages, his novels include The Religion, Bad City Blues, Green River Rising and Twelve Children of Paris. He has worked with major Hollywood directors, dined at the White House and holds a black belt in Shotokan karate.

Reviews for Memo From Turner

It's 24 years since Willocks's Green River Rising was published. Memo From Turner is even better. It's a devastating indictment of modern South Africa. -- Mark Sanderson * Evening Standard * Marked out by the elegance of the writing coupled with the brutality of the action... A ferocious read. * Mail on Sunday * A violent thriller that pits integrity against corruption in an arid, pitiless landscape. As the corpses and moral contradictions multiply, Memo from Turner ticks all the boxes for righteous machismo. -- Laura Wilson * Guardian * Unrelenting impact...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. -- Barry Forshaw * Financial Times *