The Turnaround

On a hot summer afternoon in three teenagers drove into an unfamiliar neighborhood and six lives were altered foreverThirty five years later one survivor of that night 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 itTHE TURNAROUND takes us on a journey from the rock-and-soul streets of the s to the changing neighborhoods of DC 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 It is a novel of fathers and sons wives and husbands loss victory and violent redemption another compelling highly charged novel from George Pelecanos the best crime novelist in America -Oregonian--George Pelecanos most recent novel The Night Gardener hit the New York Times Bestseller List and made more than Best Of lists including Salon Rocky Mountain News Los Angeles Times New York Sun Washington Post Book World Miami Herald and Entertainment Weekly --TheLos Angeles Times nominated The Night Gardener for the Best MysteryThriller Book Award.