This book has explicit scenes and language will prove offensive to some. Long ago, my mentor in writing, Harry Crews, said, "Characters are going to do and say what they are going to do and say. Let them."
Random Patterns by Ken MacKennick depicts the tale of William D. Johnson, who attained the status of a child genius with a multiple-choice IQ test that he Christmas-treed. A Nazi human breeding project, based in Florida, hears of the young genius and needing to upgrade their endeavors, take control of his life. For his entire career, he is manipulated (bred). Now, it is time for him to retire. He has done nothing, disdains the perfect Barbies sent to him over the decades – and has but one lament. He impregnated Kitt, and she is gone. He has done nothing with his life, and retiring, has nothing, Besides being uplifting – a joke – this dark novel reflects the narcissistic times we find ourselves in.
