MR. YESTERDAY (2017)

Revenge – to inflict injury in return for an injury; to avenge; a desire to take vengeance. However the dictionary describes it, revenge is a uniquely invigorating sensation that drives those possessed by it towards uncharted territory wherein the wind catches caution thrown in its direction. The timid, the meek and the mild shed their shells and from them emerge the furious, the fearless and the reckless.

A man robbed of his other half, facing the time remaining bereft of his soul-mate, raging at the world and those left in it. His sleepwalk to the cemetery is interrupted by an intervention from a mysterious organisation offering him an opportunity to go back to the beginning. A chance to reunite with the disparate miscreants who made moments of his life memorably miserable is served up as a cold dish for a jaded palette, and he suddenly rediscovers his appetite. The shady Drake Agency has no online presence, but appears to have limitless funds to track down distant figures whose damaging actions left lifelong scars that can only be healed by increasingly elaborate and sadistic revenge operations. The recipient of their questionable altruism both revels in and is repulsed by their tactics, though they serve a desperate need and may even lead him to the ultimate answer where his late lamented love is concerned. But how high is the price that will have to be paid for complicity with the Drake Agency?

Johnny Monroe’s tense and traumatic tale of revenge and retribution takes an aimless individual broken by bereavement and gives him the gift of a universal wish-fulfilment – to belatedly get one over those who got one over him at different stages of his life. How far he is prepared to go in pursuit of the past and its guilty parties makes for an enthralling and emotional juggernaut of a story where no stone is left unturned and no crime, however half-forgotten, goes unpunished.