Shuttlecock
Registered by Stoepbrak of Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on 3/17/2014
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Synopsis (credit: www.amazon.co.uk)
Prentis, senior clerk in the 'dead crimes' department of police archives, is becoming more and more confused.
Alienated from his wife and children, and obsessed by his father, a wartime hero now the mute inmate of a mental hospital, Prentis feels increasingly unsettled as his enigmatic boss, Mr Quinn, turns his investigation towards him — and his father.
Gradually Prentis suspects that his father's breakdown and Quinn's menacing behaviour are connected and the link is to be found in his father's memoirs, Shuttlecock ...
(Bought second-hand at CAFDA Charity Bookshop, Regent Avenue, Sea Point.)
A psychological thriller that transcends the genre and leaves one with quite a lot of food for thought. I'm always amazed at the apparent influence of one generation on their successors, even after their death.
Journal Entry 3 by Stoepbrak at Help the Rural Child Chty Shp, Vct Rd in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa on Wednesday, January 4, 2023
Released 1 yr ago (1/10/2023 UTC) at Help the Rural Child Chty Shp, Vct Rd in Cape Town, Western Cape South Africa
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