About This Book
A young South African metallurgist, Paul Parker is studying in Turkey in 1992. He meets a Turkish peasant girl, Irene Yilmaz, they become lovers and Irene falls pregnant. They decide on an illegal abortion and the abortionist's assistant, Maria Ayaz, arranges the abortion. Doctor Ahmet Atilla performs illegal abortions but also rapes the pregnant girls while they are under general anesthetic. Paul pays for the abortion and accompanies Irene to the building where the abortion is take place. He hides nearby and sees Doctor Ahmet Atilla arrive to perform the abortion. He recognizes Atilla who attended to him previously when he injured his hand. Doctor Atilla anesthetizes Irene and begins raping her but she regains consciousness during the act. To silence Irene, the doctor strangles her. Outside, Paul falls asleep. Doctor Atilla tells Maria Ayaz, who is unaware that Atilla is raping his patients, to go home. Atilla erases all evidence of their presence in the apartment and dumps Irene's body in the sea. He then murders Maria to silence her. When Paul wakes up and can't find Irene he returns to his apartment. The police discover Irene's and Maria's bodies and Inspector Ali Karacan of the Istanbul Metropolitan Police suspects that Paul is the killer. When Paul accuses Atilla of being the abortionist Atilla flees the country. Paul faces life in jail but the police find Atilla's fingerprints in the abortion apartment. Karacan gives Paul his card and Paul returns to South Africa. Seven years later, Doctor Atilla, practicing neurosurgery in South Africa under the name Ismet Allita, hears of a psychological researcher, Selwyn Brink, who has invented a microchip which, when implanted in the human brain, blocks individual distant memories. Allita finds out that Brink is financing his research through drug dealing. When Paul Parker sustains serious head injuries in a car accident Allita is appointed to operate on him. Allita recognizes Paul and blackmails Selwyn Brink into providing him with a memory-blocking microchip. He implants the processed chip in Paul's brain, blocking Paul's memory of him. Then things go wrong.
