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." -Oregonian