Product Description

After three years' hard time, minding no-one's business but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its inmates. As the River sucks them all towards the abyss, Klein must choose either to claim his freedom and leave the ones he cares for to die, or risk everything and fight...

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #290062 in Books
• Published on: 1998-01-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Review
A debut thriller set in a Texas prison by a young British psychiatrist who has never been to Texas, or to a prison. Nevertheless, the book's description of life in Green River, a mythical maximum security prison, is frighteningly convincing. The plot, however, is action-movie simple. A once-idealistic warden causes a race riot to shake up the corrupt system. This happens to take place the day before Ray Klein, a marshal-arts-obsessed doctor who was set up on rape charges, is due out on parole. Worse yet, the love of his life, a tough-as-nails visiting forensic psychiatrist, is trapped in the AIDS ward, and Klein must find a way to save his damsel in distress, as well as his adopted patients, before they are killed by the bad guys - an all-star team of white psychopaths. Klein does this with the help of his colorful sidekicks, most of whom are equally innocent men unjustly forced into prison by the cruel world. These sidekicks are all cut from the best-supporting-actor mold: the simple-minded giant, the sensitive black boxer, the gruff but caring lifer. Just to show that he is no mere schlock writer, Willocks then mixes in some watered-down and bombastic Foucault-sounding pontification on good and evil, discipline and punishment, and death and dying. But don't worry - brutal violence is always just a page away. In Willocks's prison, everything comes down to the good versus the bad, literally black versus white, with the blacks being good and the whites bad. But forceful writing somehow pulls the plot along, and, despite all of its flaws, including the silly and improbable sex scenes, Green River Rising is a fierce read. Realize that you are ingesting gobs of junk artfully disguised as gourmet fare, then dive in and enjoy. (Kirkus Reviews)

From the Publisher
‘Gritty…brilliant…a compelling story of gripping pace and brutality, a thriller in the true sense of the word’ GQ

From the Back Cover
'Green River Rising is a stunner ... Tim Willocks has crafted a superbly contained trip to hell that I urge you to sign on for.' - James Ellroy

After three years' hard time, minding no-one's busines but his own, Ray Klein wins his parole. That same day, the disciplinary perfection of Green River State Penitentiary is torn apart by tribal war, and the prison falls into the hands of its inmates.

As the River sucks them all towards the abyss, Klein must choose either to claim his freedom and leave the ones he cares for to die, or risk everything and fight...

'Brilliant... a phenomenal piece of fiction... Green River Rising is magnificent' Sunday Telegraph

'Savage, detailed, engrossing and guaranteed to leave a great lived bruise on the reader's sensibility... Green River Rising inserts an impressively brutal grip' Sunday Times

'Gritty... brilliant... a compelling story of gripping pace and brutality, a thriller in the true sense of the word.' GQ

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Customer Reviews

This is an EPIC
This is the finest 'prison drama' novel I have ever read and will leave you desperate to read anything else by the author. If anyone was thinking about committing a crime in the US, they should read this first and worry about being caught. Spellbinding and riveting are just a couple of words to describe this.

Unstoppable reading!
I first read of Tim Willocks in a magazine and with the article was a short extract of Green River Rising. On the strength of reading this I immediately bought this book and I can honestly say that no book has dragged me in like this one did when I first read it. Willocks uses a no-nonsense and very graphic style to describe actions and dialogue. The book is brutal and it builds the moments up in the book, so that I actually found myself reading faster as the actions accelerated. I could go on but I won't....just buy it. If you like you stories hard and heavy with an edge...get Green River Rising!

Superb book!!
I read 'The Religion' by Tim Willocks last year, which was one of the best books i have ever read, and finally got round to trying another of his books.
Whilst Green River Rising is not on the same epic scale as The Religion it is still one hell of a read. Willocks creates characters that you really care about, in this case Klein and Devlin and Coley, and writes in a very fluid and intense style.
His books are not for the faint hearted, but if you have the guts then he is an exceptional story teller!