Review “CALL DOWN THE THUNDER” By Dietrich Kalteis

The Dust Bowl of the 1930s counts as a period of American history that tested humanity’s mettle and will to live. This is certainly the case for Sonny and Clara Myers, who work the family farm in Kansas. That is until Clara seeks sunnier climes in California, leaving Sonny to his own devices and dark thoughts on the family’s farm. Things quickly go from grim to terrifying for the abandoned Kansas farmer.

The banks, feared and despised by the locals, work like vultures over the starving Kansas populace, picking at the bones of the hard-working residents until there is nothing left. Sonny, in debt to his eyeballs, is no exception. Life is made even worse thanks to the Ku Klux Klan, who’ve decided Sonny deserves a bit of fire and hate for his views. When his wife returns with a group foolishly hired by the mayor to manufacture rain over the parched landscape, Sonny launches a criminal heist he believes will return his household to better days, and maybe even bring Clara back home, only he’s got to survive the Klan first.

At times heartfelt, and deftly written throughout, “Call Down the Thunder” takes readers on a desperate, Dust Bowl era crime caper that quenches our thirst for gritty historical crime fiction.

Review “Call Down the Thunder” Dietrich Kalteis

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