Turkish duo pen bestselling novel though prison bars

The crime novel "Duet in Purgatory", which features a retired left-wing lawyer and a bitter ageing general with a tortuous past, has been a roaring success. The two writers developed the story, which spans the last 40 years of Turkey's tumultuous history and the long-standing Kurdish conflict, without ever discussing the plot. "It was a risky gamble to try and write a novel like you'd play chess, move by move, without agreeing on the plot, the characters or the style -- nothing," Selahattin Demirtas...