The Turkish Connection: A Birth of an Assassin Novel

By Rik Stone

Mehmet is just eight years old when his father uses him as a stake in a card game - and loses. At least this is what he is told as he is snatched away to begin a new life in the Little Dog gang. He battles for daily survival in the murky Istanbul of 1951 while being forced to learn the crafts of theft and violence alongside the other street children. Come evening, Mehmet curls up under a stinking jetty in a waterway off the Bosporus Strait. Desperation fills him as he yearns to break free from the life inflicted on him by his drunken, womanizing father, little knowing that his rotting body lies at the bottom of those same waters. Mehmet reaches adulthood before finding out that it wasn't fate that had taken control when he was a boy, but a very real nemesis. Is it too late? Can he yet turn things around and get his life back?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1508888434
• ISBN13: 9781508888437
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 473 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.8" x 1.2" x 5.1"