Eyes Everywhere

I See You ... They follow him home from work. They monitor his e-mails. They may even be reading his mind. I Spy ... Charlie Fields, a young father in a dead-end secretarial job in Washington, DC, has uncovered a conspiracy of historic proportions. A family friend, Philip Duke, heads a secret organization bent on controlling the world-or so it seems. Is Charlie crazy, as his wife claims? Or is Duke's "Gestapo" now stalking them? Do You See What I See? ... The neighbors beat on his walls at night, chanting his name. Spy cameras watch his every move. And now he's experiencing strange memory gaps. Time runs out as Charlie learns the Gestapo is experimenting on his small children. Worse, his wife is helping them. They're everywhere, watching him...studying him. It's time to take action-and if he has to abduct his own kids to save them, then so be it.

From Publishers Weekly

While horror fiction often deals with madness as a reaction to some violation of natural law or as a metaphor for the darker parts of the human condition, Warner's disturbing third novel (after The Organ Donor and Death Sentences) takes a realistic look at a case of paranoid schizophrenia. Charlie Fields, a 30-year-old male secretary at a Washington, D.C., law firm, suffers many stresses all too common in our modern life: fear of having his job eliminated, fear of not being able to provide for his family, fear of terrorism. Warner subtly depicts the progression of Charlie's paranoia and delusions. As Charlie retreats into a world where he's in control and has power, he becomes increasingly estranged from all that he loves. Warner has created an everyman for our time, and if the result is not pleasant or escapist, it is compelling and insightful. (Aug.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

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