Alias the Tank

About the Book

Alias The Tank, is a romantic comedy about the interaction of a handsome, wealthy, wheelchair-bound, New York businessman named Toby Broughton suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and his intense Psychotherapist, Dr. Denise Lambert.  The action partly takes place in a now abandoned State Institution For The Retarded where Toby had been erroneously incarcerated in his teens following misdiagnosis of injuries suffered in a motor-vehicle accident.

As Dr. Lambert conducts therapy Toby relives his intense incarceration in the Institution.  In the off-hours, Dr. Lambert is blackmailed into attending night clubs, theaters and dance floors with Toby, his "Man Friday", Juan Songsong, a native of Rota in the Marianas and Gloria Madison, Toby´s latest love who is an up and coming actress.

Inside the old Institution, Toby relives his placement in a Vocational Training Program, his attempts to escape to his Grandfather in New York, his release to a group home in the community and his escape from the group home with one of it´s younger residents, a boy named William Garcia.

"Alias The Tank" is the nickname of the "Access Mobility System" wheelchair which allows Toby to access stairs and handicapped-unfriendly places.

About the Author

Rosemary I. Patterson, Ph.D. is a retired School Psychologist whose interests include Identity Achievement (who am I and what am I going to do with my life) in Adolescence. After a visit to Hawaii in 1988 she hypothesized that the Identity Achievement task would be more complicated in a multi-cultural population. The result has been five novels dealing with Identity Achievement in Hawaii. The other four novels include “An End To Innocence,” set in Hilo, “Aloha And MaiTais,” about Honolulu entertainers in the 1930's, “Kuhina Nui,” about King Kamehameha’s favorite wife, and “Kula Keiki Ali’i,” about the Chief’s Children’s School that in 1840 educated the children who would become monarchs of Hawaii.