October "Tobie" Guinness is an Iraq war Navy vet with a psycho discharge. She earned the diagnosis by having
"visions" that could prove embarrassing to the military. Tobie has the gift of remote viewing, the ability to see
things happening at great distances. Her capacity for seeing things is something that she doesn’t fully understand
and so she has trouble interpreting her visions. After leaving the armed forces, Tobie teams up with Tulane
professor Henry Youngblood to study her unusual talent. When Professor Youngblood is murdered, the CIA sends agent
Jax Alexander to investigate.
It seems that one of the things that Tobie envisioned was a Second World War transport plane, which made no
sense to her; but it raised a huge red flag for some conspirators with big plans and even bigger cravings for power
and wealth. The symbolic sighting makes Tobie, and now Jax, targets for some evil characters in very high government
places.
The pair has no idea why they’re being hunted, but they assume that it has to do with something that Toby and
Professor Youngblood were working on. The trouble is that Tobie doesn’t understand it well enough to know what
triggered the attempts on her life.
Things gradually become clear as Tobie retrieves more of her "viewing" and Jax puts it all together with a few
known facts. Their conclusion is terrifying to both of them. What Tobie has seen could signal the beginning of a
global war. At this point it becomes a race for survival.
It’s all but impossible to write a book like this, tied to the current state of world affairs, without taking a
political stance. Some of the comments I’ve read about this book say that it has an extreme liberal bias and
others mark it as being written from a conservative viewpoint. One even said it was neutral. Such is the peril
in this kind of work. It’s highly political in nature and deals with not only the morality of the Iraq war but
the integrity of an unnamed presidential administration. It’s volatile stuff that is bound to strike a nerve in
readers with firm political convictions.
I’d recommend that the reader attempt to view it as middle of the road and understand that it’s pure fiction
and try not to read the author’s mind.
It’s well enough written to get very high marks in spite of the risk of controversy.