William Monje

The Demand William Monje

At a time when drug traffic and ?tough on crime? were leading to a new organization of crime and corruption in high places, what happens when a widowed father loses his only child to a criminal organization of whose greed, cruelty and inhuman practices he has full knowledge?a long list of cold and heartless criminals who range from the street to the elite, all responsible for his daughter's death? David DeVries, the otherwise quiet and conventional sort of person not inclined to get involved in the latest social outrage or protest, suddenly finds himself torn from his passive existence and rapt by a relentless rage to avenge his daughter Kitty?s death. But still his most underlying nature rules his actions; being an architect by profession, David?s strategy for retaliation is carefully laid out and executed with care, patience and precision. The course he takes he does not deem a solution to the problem; it is his demand for a solution.

Set in the bleakly approaching repressive days of the early 1980s, The Demand is a stark psychological thriller tempered by the depth of character and the building motivations that takes an otherwise gentle and peaceful man through an almost mystic transfiguration into a calculating and cold-blooded, avenging slayer of beasts. Is it a suicide mission or will other influences soften his resolve and come into play upon his carefully laid out plans and thwart his final message that will make it all have meaning?