The Turnaround [Paperback]

On a hot summer afternoon in 1972, three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered forever.
Thirty five years later, one survivor of that day reaches out to another, opening a door that could lead to salvation. But another survivor is now out of prison, looking for reparation in any form he can find it.
THE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the '70s to the changing neighborhoods of D.C. today, from the diners and auto garages of the city to the inside of Walter Reed Army Medical Hospital, where wounded men and women have returned to the world in a time of war. A novel of fathers and sons, wives and husbands, loss, victory and violent redemption, THE TURNAROUND is another compelling, highly charged novel from George Pelecanos, the best crime novelist in America. -OregonianGeorge Pelecanos is the author of several highly praised and bestselling novels, includingThe Cut,What It Was,The Way Home,The Turnaround, andThe Night Gardener. He is also an independent-film producer, an essayist, and the recipient of numerous international writing awards. He was a producer and Emmy-nominated writer forThe Wireand currently writes for the acclaimed HBO seriesTreme. He lives in Maryland.PRAISE FORTHE TURNAROUND:

Yet another gem of urban noir....A beautifully written and thought-provoking novel of crime, friendship, aging and redemption. Publishers Weekly (starred review) [Pelecanos] tells a tight, suspenseful story. And he packs enough of a wallop to put THE TURNAROUND on an express bus of its own. Janet Maslin,New York Times Pelecanos does what few, if any, American writers do: He tells the truth. Twain told the truth; Faulkner toyed with the truth; Hemingway told his version of the truth, andChandlercertainly told a cold, cynical trulƒ$