Empire of the Wolves by J.C. Grange Vintage, $101 In a blaze of political correctness, The Independent newspaper called Empire of the Wolves 'a lurid farrago of Oriental stereotypes'. The attack came in response to Jean-Christophe Grange's portrayal of a violent right-wing Turkish group, operating in Paris, as the villains of this particular piece. None of this should detract from Grange's compelling, blood-splattered thriller. A serial killer is doing the rounds of Paris' Turkish community and has accounted for three women, all mutilated, by the time a troubled police officer and his renegade, retired, hardcase inspector partner pick up the scent. They identify the handiwork as that of the Grey Wolves, a Turkish assassination outfit. The tale involves politics, horror, the supernatural and CIA-inspired brainwashing, all of which come together in Anna Heymes. The wife of a French civil servant, Anna suffers from bizarre psychological terrors: assailed by visions of melting faces, unable to recognise her husband and subjected to the attentions of a shady neurologist, she discovers she isn't the woman she thought she was. But to the Grey Wolves her identity is no mystery.