Hang Him When He Is Not There

New Years Eve 1989. At a residential care home in suburban Australia fireworks explode in the distance while an elderly man dies in troubling circumstances. Decades later a proof-reader disfigured by a childhood accident prepares to meet a celebrated and reclusive novelist. Between these two figures a subtle and intricate web is woven implicating the members of a mystical cult the victim of a beheading an impostor artist and the enigmatic presence known only as Agent Vell.Hang Him When He Is Not There is a novel unlike any other. With keen intelligence stylistic flair and a bold philosophy of literary possibilities Nicholas John Turner has crafted a globe-spanning time-bending narrative that throws its own readers into the action and scours the darkest reaches of the human psyche: jealousy betrayal duplicity cowardice and -- above all -- vanity.