Green River Rising by Tim Willocks
After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its inmates. As the River sucks them all towards the abyss, Klein must choose either to claim his freedom and leave the ones he cares for to die, or risk everything and fight...
"Green River Rising is a stunner - and may be the best prison novel everThis is a book of dark alchemy: turbulent milieu, brilliantly etched characters, pure adrenaline-fuelled narrative - richly sustained and stylishly realised. Tim Willocks has crafted a superbly contained trip to hell that I urge you all to sign on for." -- James Ellroy "The best thriller since The Silence of the Lambs...Green River Rising is a brilliant entertainment...a powerful novel that will shock, and sell." Daily Telegraph "Savage, detailed, engrossing and guaranteed to leave a great livid bruise on the reader's sensibility...Willock's descriptive prose is taut and tense...Green River Rising asserts an impressively brutal grip" Sunday Times "Raw, twitching...Willocks has an uncanny ear for the rhythms of US prison slang...not since Seth Morgan's Homeboy has doing bird been captured with such metaphorical flourish.There is a philosophical depth to the novel." Sunday Independent "Green River Rising is a stunner - and may be the best prison novel ever. This is a book of dark alchemy: turbulent milieu, brilliantly etched characters, pure adrenaline-fuelled narrative - richly sustained and stylishly realised. Tim Willocks has crafted a superbly contained trip to hell that I urge you all to sign on for" -- James Ellroy
Tim Willocks was born in Stalybridge, Cheshire, in 1957 and studied medicine at University College Hospital Medical School. He is the author of Bad City Blues, Bloodstained Kings and The Religion.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099509486 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099509482 |
| Title | Green River Rising |
| Author | Tim Willocks |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cornerstone |
| Year published | 2007-05-03 |
| Number of pages | 432 |
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