Salt River (paperback)

The final book of the Turner trilogy. John Turner - ex-policeman, ex-con, war veteran and former therapist - has come to a small town somewhere near Memphis, to escape his past. But the past proved inescapable; and thrust into the role of Deputy Sheriff, Turner finds himself at the centre of his new community, one that, like so many others, is drying up, disappearing before his eyes. Then one day the Sheriff's long-lost son comes ploughing down Main Street into City Hall in what appears to be a stolen car...