Describe your latest book.
I Saw a Man is a contemporary novel set between London, New York, Nevada, and Wales. The book opens with Michael Turner, a young widower, entering the house of his neighbors, the Nelsons, by the back door. Michael believes there is no one at home, but he is wrong. What happens in the next few minutes changes his, and the lives of the Nelsons, forever.
Michael's journey through the Nelsons' house forms the spine for the first half of I Saw a Man, from which the narrative looks back to his brief marriage to TV reporter Caroline, his grief in the wake of her death, and his moving from their cottage in Wales to a flat in London. Following his move, despite (or perhaps because?) the Nelsons appearing to represent everything Michael has lost, he quickly forms a close bond with Josh and Samantha and their two daughters. This bond promises to be the mainstay of his emotional healing, until, one day, thinking their house is empty, he enters their back door.
From the moment of the event inside the Nelsons' house, the novel gains a strong forward momentum, with Michael having to remain living beside his neighbors while bearing the weight of a terrible secret and a desperate desire to atone.
The Nevada element of the story concerns Major Daniel McCullen, a U.S. drone pilot operating out of Creech Air Force Base in the desert outside Las Vegas. Daniel has chosen to switch from flying planes to flying drones in an attempt to stop the conflict in Afghanistan from further disrupting his family life. He discovers, however, that in returning every evening from Creech, far from protecting his family from the war, he ...