2 books by Dirk Knight
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Overview: Dirk Knight is a pseudonym for M.D. (Michael Dirk) Thalmann, who lives in Phoenix with his wife and daughters, and writes a column and does freelance for a few magazines. He has a series of satire and science fictions works, as well. Dirk Knight is the dark side of M.D. Thalmann, where he lets all the evil and bile just run amuck. “I started writing as Dirk Knight for myself (as a way to vent), to satisfy urges and entertain my curiosities. I wanted to know how many of us think the way I do. I have lived in the most depressing and joyful situations. I have starved and lived in cars, I have also had more money that I could spend and had gifts that brought me exquisite joy. From my vantage point, humans are the most unpredictable, astonishing, hateful and sacrificing creatures. I want to understand us (humanity) better and, for me, understanding of humanity comes from writing fiction, and examining what people might do when they feel no one is watching, what people are capable of (horrible and great), and imaging how seemingly normal people would react if they had exhausted the rational (and sometimes irrational) options. I hope you will join me in my quest to reveal the darkest and brightest aspects of human nature…what will we do when the lights are out?” -Dirk Knight.
Genre: Thrillers > Psychological
Dimly, Through Glass
Dennis Foster is not too different from you and me, other than his inability to say no to those little synaptic flashes that catch in his brain. Dennis’s switch has been flipped. We all have the same hardware, all with short circuits in the wiring, but he isn’t able to kill the engine. Mr. Foster acts upon impulses we have all had—and many we haven’t. For Dennis sees himself only dimly, as though reflected only in part, and will come to know himself clearly, face to face with the venomous monstrosity truly shining back in the glass.
Dennis is driven by a sense of inadequacy and self-loathing, instilled in him first by his mother, and then by his failures with every woman who has tried to replace her. Though he has been given an opportunity to reclaim the masculinity, and control he relinquished so long ago, his troubled past and incomprehensible urges, buried and hidden for years, will boil over into a homicidal frenzy when he is forced to kill a man in self-defense. His carefully crafted façade will decay, leaving only the vulnerable truth. We are going to follow his descent and decomposing mental state, and trace the dark pathways that lead to the root causes of evil.
The good guy (every story needs one), though another dark character, is a virtuous rogue who has used his dangerous past to impel him towards the light. He is driven forward by the memories of the woman he loved, who was always too good for him, and his best friend from Operation Iraqi Freedom, both of whom he watched die.
Will good triumph over evil as so often happens in the movies, or will the demented, disjointed maniac fulfill his imagined destiny and shatter the innocence of his victims?
Jayden’s Revenge: The Tale of an American Family
A small town family is wrecked after a murder tears apart their “happy” home. Disturbing truths are revealed as one family member digs deeper to discover what really happened when the family lost a child.—
The story centers on Jayden, a troubled fifteen year-old who has lost her brother as well as dealing with physical and substance abuse problems. Jayden is starting to exhibit behavior like her mother, a diagnosed schizophrenic with a history of violence and methamphetamine addiction.
Derrick, oblivious to his daughters growing angst, submerges himself into an alcoholic pit of self-pity as he tries to process the loss of his son and offers little help to defend Jayden when her mother escapes custody in an effort to dispatch her.
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