Review: Dark And Disturbing, But Good
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 24, 2013
When Thomas Ford and his soon to be deceased wife stop to look at a desolate track of road filled with old abandoned vehicles it is if from that point on he has crossed over into "The Twilight Zone" and we the reader are taken along for the ride.  Thomas Ford's life takes a turn for the dark side and many of the people that become entwined in his new reality are even darker.  Jimmy McCallum (who is always described as looking like a dark bird), is seriously psychotic and it is he along with his hulking dimwitted buddy, Robert Ferguson, that cause Ford to have an accident that takes the life of his wife and puts Ford into a coma for several weeks. Ford saw the drivers of the vehicle that caused the accident for just a moment, but their image is always close to the edge of his memory.  Jimmy also knows that Ford saw him and Robert and knowing this it begins to eat at Jimmy.  And, so the story unravels as does the inevitable road toward blackmail, violence and death as other characters, most unknown to Ford, begin plotting and making decisions related to the accident and Ford's possible knowledge of the crime. Eventually Ford will again become an unwitting victim in this foreboding tale and whether he survives is more in the hands of the power of the dark reality he has entered rather than his own will. I would describe the style of this Scottish story as very Hitchcock-like. Though, dark and disturbing, it was a great read that kept my interest throughout.