Turning Point......a novel.

From the novel TURNING POINT, by Greg Iles



Some stories must wait to be told.

Any writer worth his salt knows this. Sometimes
you wait for events to percolate in your subconscious
until a deeper truth emerges; other times you’re simply
waiting for the principals to die. Sometimes it’s both.
This story is like that.

A man walks the straight and narrow all his life; he
follows the rules, stays within the lines; then one day he
makes a misstep. He crosses a line and sets in motion a
chain of events that will take from him everything he
has and damn him forever in the eyes of those he loves.

We all sense that invisible line of demarcation, like an
unspoken challenge hanging in the air. And there is some
wild thing in our natures that makes us want to cross it,
that compels us with the silent insistence of evolutionary
imperative to risk all for a glinting shadow. Most of us
suppress that urge. Fear stops us more often than wis-
dom, as in most things. But some of us take that step.
And in the taking, we start down a path from which it is
difficult and sometimes impossible to return.