THE BOOK FAIR

Review:

The Mongol Reply deals with a child custody battle between a young mother and her powerful husband.

 

Tom Tully tells his attorney in definitive terms, he wants his wife dead.  His lawyer, Albert Olen Garfield, tells him he cannot do that, he’s just a divorce attorney.

In Albert Olen Garfield’s possession is an historic, framed letter, from Subutai to Genghis Khan, claiming to have burned, murdered and destroyed all the people, animals and fields of the Persians.  Albert Olen Garfeild still thrills when he reads the letter.  Tom Tully points to the letter and tells Garfield that that is what he wants done to his wife.

The next morning, Judge Harold Kenniston hears a litany of accusations against Serena Tully.  The judge orders Serena temporarily banned from her home and children, but appoints Dr. Morgan Reece to the case to evaluate the family, above Garfield’s protests.

After Reece meets with Tully and Serena, he senses the bully in Tully.   As Reece carries out the sessions with Serena and the children, he realizes they are in danger, and that their fate lies in his hands.

 

Benjamin Schultz, drawing from field experience, delivers a tense, award winning, highly suspenseful, emotionally charged, disturbingly violent, disconcerting novel of a man’s inability to accept societal parameters.