Netflix’s The Whisper Man arrives on August 28, and it’s positioning itself as one of the platform’s biggest thrillers of the year – not for its serial-killer premise alone, but for the father-and-son story tangled inside it. The Whisper Man: What It’s About The film “The Whisper Man” adapts Alex North’s 2019 bestselling novel of the same name. Tom Kennedy (Adam Scott), a widowed crime writer, relocates with his eight-year-old son, Jake, to the small town of Featherbank hoping for a fresh start after a family tragedy. The problem: Featherbank was terrorized fifteen years earlier by a child killer known…