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Turnabout

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I am a big fan of Boston based detective fiction and have read all of Healy's books. I found Turnabout not up to his usual standard, but still worth reading.

This is a single book by Jeremiah Healy, not connected with the John Francis Cuddy series for which he's famous. Matthew Langway's a private detective and security expert. He was hired some time before the book starts to set up the security for an estate owned by General Alexander van Horne, who fought during World War II, and then made a fortune in the arms trade after he retired. Langway sets up the security system, then leaves, and when the General's grandson is kidnapped from the house, Langway is called on to figure out how it happened, retrieve the little boy, and if he can, kill the kidnappers.

This is an interesting book, and it had an unusual ending. I will say that I somehow expected what happened, based on the way the rest of the story went. I won't give away that ending, but it's not as much of a surprise as you would expect. Still, it's not a bad book.

Think about this: if you had the chance to be young again would you take it; even if you lost all your memories eventually? That's what the 50 people in the book The Turnabout had to ask themselves only they didn't have a choice. What is it that attracts us to the young years so much? Would it be worth your memories to go back to your youth?
I personally would not want to lose my memories. I'm only 15 and I know that I wouldn't give them up to re-attempt my life as bad as it may seem sometimes. I feel memories are one if not the most important thing to keep in this world. One of my leading fears is the dreadful fear of developing Alzheimer's and losing everything I've worked to have. In the end really all we have left are memories; this thought always seems to kill me too.
But you might be thinking if all we have left in the end is memories and that's depressing why not just go back to where you're living all those memories? I don't exactly know why I feel I'd rather not but I still wouldn't. It's still a matter of knowing I had something in my life. Would you want to just forget the love that you and your wife shared, or lose the memories of raising your children, or all the lives you might have touched in your life somehow? I wouldn't give these memories for anything. These things are the reason I live. And if I had them I wouldn't want to risk losing them (or the memories of them) and risk not being able to do it again.
The Turnabout was a very thought provoking book as you can see. Many questions were brought to my head. You'll have to read and decide for yourself what you believe because what you believe is one of the most important things to decide in the world or else your not really living I feel.