American Foreign Service Officers abroad ought not to organize anti-American demonstrations, but young Max Lacey does so from love of country. It makes sense in the magical, dysfunctional, Republic of Enganada, where imagination supplies what history has denied.
Early in his diplomatic career Lacey arrives in the port city of Alcala as Director of the Enganadan-American Cultural Center. He finds a decaying building, a spaced-out Academic Director, an unhelpful Embassy supervisor in the distant capital, and internal plots against the nearly-bankrupt Center. With the help of his imaginative...
American Foreign Service Officers abroad ought not to organize anti-American demonstrations, but young Max Lacey does so from love of country. It make...
Frank Nunzio's tranquility is destroyed when he begins seeing visions which often prove true. Recognizing an obligation to help find missing children, he fears the effect of these visions on his own soul as they lead him into the heart of horrors, and moral dilemmas. Learning to hold ever more firmly to faith and love, he survives until the strange gift, or curse, is lifted.
Frank Nunzio's tranquility is destroyed when he begins seeing visions which often prove true. Recognizing an obligation to help find missing children,...