This is a story about an old man stabbed to death with a screwdriver by two men who break into his house to burgle it, and the incidents in the three days that follow... This terrible murder becomes entangled in a whirlwind love affair between a man and a woman who meet in a bar one Saturday night...
The quick rhythm that makes this Ercan Akbay novel unique, the original, heartfelt narration, as well as mastery of a subtle realism in character development, the fluidity of the dialogues, and the depth of the powerful and impressive content, are just some of the features that catch the eye.
The characters: the shrewd police captain, pushing retirement; Murat, a fiendishly dangerous outlaw; Arzu, a beautiful young woman who has got mixed up in crime; Caner, a Homicide detective with problems of his own who only handles ‘complex and non-routine’ cases; the sheykh of a cult who has no qualms about remodelling life according to his own desires, and the other characters who have a part in these deadly events narrate the same three days from their own points of view and in their own voices.
With this book, as soon as you pass through the dark gateway that opens out onto the secret rituals of crime, you will plunge straight into the heart of this extraordinary underground affair with all the sharpness of a murder weapon.
The quick rhythm that makes this Ercan Akbay novel unique, the original, heartfelt narration, as well as mastery of a subtle realism in character development, the fluidity of the dialogues, and the depth of the powerful and impressive content, are just some of the features that catch the eye.
The characters: the shrewd police captain, pushing retirement; Murat, a fiendishly dangerous outlaw; Arzu, a beautiful young woman who has got mixed up in crime; Caner, a Homicide detective with problems of his own who only handles ‘complex and non-routine’ cases; the sheykh of a cult who has no qualms about remodelling life according to his own desires, and the other characters who have a part in these deadly events narrate the same three days from their own points of view and in their own voices.
With this book, as soon as you pass through the dark gateway that opens out onto the secret rituals of crime, you will plunge straight into the heart of this extraordinary underground affair with all the sharpness of a murder weapon.
WHAT TIME IS IT MR WOLF?
Ercan Akbay
Istanbul July 2007, 2nd Edition
Novel
Criminal Zone
352 pages
A mercurial novel from Arion’s ‘Criminal Zone’: a homicide entwined with a passionate love affair between a man and a woman who meet in a bar one Saturday evening.
A Veteran Police Chief pushing retirement, a fiendishly dangerous outlaw, a beautiful young woman embroiled in crime, a detective with serious problems of his own who can only take on ‘complex and non-routine’ operations and the sheikh of a cult who thinks that it is his right to shape other people's lives according to his whims...
When you step through the dark threshold of the rituals lurking behind the deadly sins, you will enter into the very heart of a clandestine adventure, with all the keenness of a very sharp penetrating weapon.