![]() "Memo from Turner" was ranked #92 in the 100 Greatest Guitar Songs list of Rolling Stone. After its original release in 1970, it had been included on Rolling Stones compilations, such as Singles Collection: The London Years as a track credited to the Jagger/Richards songwriting partnership. ![]() It was re-released in October 2007 on a seventeen-song retrospective compilation album The Very Best of Mick Jagger, making a re-appearance as a Jagger solo effort. "Memo from Turner" is a solo record by Mick Jagger, featuring the slide guitar by Ry Cooder, from the soundtrack of Performance, in which Jagger played the leading role of Turner, a reclusive rock star. Recorded August 1968, Olympic Studios, London Song by The Rolling Stones from the album Metamorphosis Memo from Turner is no exception.Recorded September 1968, Olympic Studios, London "Willocks' thrillers are marked out by the elegance of the writing coupled with the brutality of the action. "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" "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" A gritty, hard-hitting moral novel."- "Soniah Kamal, award-winning author of Unmarriageable: Pride and Prejudice in Pakistan" In Turner, Willocks gives the reader a 'hero' who plumbs all the hard philosophical dilemmas concerning self-interest versus loyalty, right versus wrong, fair versus unfair, and what that even means in a corruption-riddled world. "Tim Willocks' novel Memo from Turner is an exuberant ride through violence in the human heart and the conditions that allow vice to flourish over decency. I look forward to more Turner stories."- "Nicholas Guild, author of Blood Ties" ![]() "This is an interesting story in an interesting setting, and the dialogue is first rate. "The clash of personalities that follows is delivered with unrelenting impact." - "Financial Times (London)" ![]() It's a devastating indictment of modern South Africa."- "Evening Standard (London)" "It's twenty-four years since Willocks' Green River Rising was published. First-rate storytelling." - "Kelly Parsons, author of Doing Harm and Under the Knife" You can feel the oppressive South African desert sun beating on your head and the dust choking your breath. Vivid, intelligent, and relatable characters. As the corpses and moral contradictions multiply, Memo from Turner ticks all the boxes for righteous machismo."- "Guardian (London)" "A violent thriller that pits integrity against corruption and expedience in an arid, pitiless landscape. īy the time Willocks' tale is finished, fourteen men have died, and he shows once again that he is the laureate of the violent thriller. 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. 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. But by chance the case falls to the relentless Warrant Officer Turner of Cape Town Homicide. Why should his life be ruined for a nameless girl who was already terminally ill? No one will care and the law is cheap. The driver's mother, a self-made mining magnate named Margot Le Roux, intends to keep her son in ignorance of his crime. His companions-who do know-leave the girl to die. 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.
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