Cry Father
Benjamin Whitmer
Gallery, Sep
16 2014, $25.00
ISBN 9781476734354
Patterson Wells travels the country working as a
tree trimmer at disasters. Since a
doctor erred on his son’s diagnosis leading to the child’s death; Wells has
become a disaster. His marriage died
with his child, but his ex who lives in Taos wants to sue the medical killer
for malpractice; while Wells no longer cares about anything except writing
letters to his late son Justin. His only
companion is his dog Sancho.
He visits his friend Chase to go fishing, but his buddy is meth
dazed and hogtied a female who upon release by Wells bashes the head of her
drugged out host with a bat. At home in
Colorado, Wells meets drug runner and user Junior, son of his neighbor
Henry. Wells and Junior begin an odyssey
of violence fueled by coke and meth.
This gory thriller opens up with the swings of a bat and closes
with more violence after much blood and guts flow in between. Wells is a mesmerizing sociopathic antihero
as he no longer cares about life since his child died; yet keeps alive their
father-son relationship through the letters he writes to Justin. Not for anyone with a squeamish stomach, Cry
Father is an extremely dark and very brutal tale.
Harriet Klausner
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