Endgame by Ahmet Altan review – guns, love and greed in small-town Turkey
Andrew Finkel
Saturday 19 September 2015 09.00 BST
As apples are to oranges so is Endgame, a Turkish noir novel, to the Scandi versions of the genre. Up in the chilly north, evil shenanigans are buried beneath thick layers of normality. Here, in a small town overlooking the eastern Mediterranean, it’s the other way round. Our narrator – a novelist, newly arrived in search of inspiration – has hardly finished his first sip of Turkish coffee before the yellow mini-van of death pulls up and a hit man emerges to shoot a fellow customer’s eyeball right out of its socket.
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