James Sallis
Salt River
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The final book of the Turner trilogyJohn Turner - ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist - has come to escape his past. But the past proved inescapable; thrust into the role of Deputy Sheriff, Turner finds himself at the centre of his new community, one that, like so many others, is drying up, disappearing before his eyes.Two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. 'Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left', Val had told him, and that becomes Turner's mantra.Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main St…
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The final book of the Turner trilogyJohn Turner - ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist - has come to escape his past. But the past proved inescapable; thrust into the role of Deputy Sheriff, Turner finds himself at the centre of his new community, one that, like so many others, is drying up, disappearing before his eyes.Two years have passed since Turner's amour, Val Bjorn, was shot as they sat together on the porch of his cabin. 'Sometimes you just have to see how much music you can make with what you have left', Val had told him, and that becomes Turner's mantra.Then the sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car. And waiting at Turner's cabin is his good friend, Eldon Brown, Val's banjo on the back of his motorcycle. 'They think I killed someone,' he says. Turner asks: 'Did you?' And Eldon responds: 'I don't know.'Haunted by his own ghosts, Turner nonetheless goes in search of a truth he's not sure he can live with.'As we come to expect from Sallis, Salt River is filled with insight, redemption and tantalizing passages' - Woody Haut, Crime Time'James Sallis is a superb writer' - TimesDon't miss the other books in the Turner trilogy, Cypress Grove and Cripple Creek and look out for James Sallis' Lew Griffin series.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84243-737-7
- EAN: 9781842437377
- Produktnummer: 13866058
- Verlag: Oldcastle Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 160 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 338 KB
Über den Autor
James Sallis has published seventeen novels, multiple collections of short stories, essays, and poems, books of musicology, a biography of Chester Himes, and a translation of Raymond Queneau's novel Saint Glinglin. He has written about books for the LA Times, New York Times, and Washington Post, and for some years served as a books columnist for the Boston Globe. He has received a lifetime achievement award from Bouchercon, the Hammett Award for literary excellence in crime writing, and the Grand Prix de Littérature policière. The Cannes award-winning film Drive derived from his novel of that title. His new novel, Sarah Jane, will be available from No Exit Press in 2019. Jim plays numerous instruments with his string band Three-Legged Dog and with other musicians in the Phoenix area. He stays busy.
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