Dents: A novel
You can run from your past but you can’t hide from it.
That’s especially true for Dennis, a small-time campus radical in his youth who’s now the manager of a chain of auto-body shops in Northern California.
For Dennis, a good day is minding the stores, carrying out the orders of the chain’s mysterious owner, and keeping a very low profile. A good night is when the explosion dream doesn’t wake him up sweating.
His comfortable life is shattered when Wendy, an old acquaintance from his college days, shows up with a badly damaged car and the key to blowing his cover. Despite his initial fears, and to the surprise of both, their renewed friendship develops into something deeper.
Then a ghost from their past arrives to haunt them, an ex-con carrying more unwelcome baggage than just his still-smoldering flame for his former girlfriend, who by now has taken up residence with Dennis.
Complicating matters is toupee-wearing TV pitchman with a weakness for cocaine and vulnerable women, an FBI agent with a thing for older men with toupees, and a motley crew of bikers, thugs, and oddballs, all of whom threaten to tear Dennis and Wendy apart and blow up their lives like the bomb that separated them years ago.
About Jerry
Jerry Smith has been a professional freelance writer for more than 40 years. You'd think he'd have found a real job in that much time, but no. Instead, he's written for magazines, websites, corporations, and—when he can carve out the time—for his own enjoyment.