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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 named 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' tale is finished, fourteen men have died, and he shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller.

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A violent thriller that pits integrity against corruption and expedience in an arid, pitiless landscape. As the corpses and moral contradictions multiply, Memo from Turner ticks all the boxes for righteous machismo. -- Guardian (London) 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 (London) Willocks' thrillers are marked out by the elegance of the writing coupled with the brutality of the action. Memo from Turner is no exception. -- Mail on Sunday (London) 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 (London)

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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. Peter Noble, an Earphones Award-winning narrator, grew up in South Africa and studied drama and music at the University of Cape Town. He has worked extensively as an actor, touring South Africa with a small repertory theater company, as well as working on radio, TV, and film.

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