Thomas Berger

Meeting Evil Thomas Berger

John Felton meets evil late one Monday morning when the doorbell rings. Standing on the front porch is a stranger. He wears expensive running shoes and a baseball cap and calls himself Richie. He says his car has stalled and asks for help. An altercation at the gas station leads to a shocking crime, and at the end of this harrowing day, John returns home to find Richie in his living room, chatting up his wife. The evil has seeped into his life. Thus begins the transformation of an unremarkable husband and father of two into a desperate man who will do anything to protect his family from the looming darkness. This is an extraordinary masterpiece and a chilling portrait of mounting menace played out against an everyday world of domestic routine, personified in a protagonist of basic decency grappling with both the immediate and existential meaning of true evil.