Seen from a Distance

SEEN FROM A DISTANCE is the story of Cusack, an Iraqwar veteran now working for a private security firm.Alienated from his past and haunted by it, too, he livesdeterminedly in the here and now. His assignment issurveillance of an elderly professor, W.S. Tyler, whosedead son-in-law had ties to a shadowy Senegalese rebelarmy, accused by the U.S. government of being a terroristorganization.Cusack’s preferred method of surveillance - the detachedtechnology of camera and microphone is abruptlyabandoned in favor of a role which puts him inTyler’s classroom and soon thereafter in a complicatedrelationship with his family. Cusack’s boss, increasinglyobsessed with Tyler, drags Cusack into his hiddenagenda where deadly unforeseen events occur in rapidsuccession and the situation spins rapidly out ofcontrol. In the end, Cusack is confronted with choicesthat will change his future as radically as his earlierchoices fixed his past.Seen From A Distance can be read as a character study,or a dramatic adventure or considered for its parallelsto political events of the recent past. At every level,it is a terrific read.