Our collective lives as Americans were temporarily placed on hold, as terror struck and shook our core values—life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness on 9/11. Subsequently, many aspects of our society have changed—some for better, but others for worse.

Particularly, there have been significant changes along the lines of intelligence gathering, law enforcement, terrorism interception, and national security. As a result, many laws have been enacted (USA PATRIOT ACT) or reenacted (FISA), while countless related measures have been implemented.

These changes have rightly compelled us to ponder anew the complex relationship between national security and our civil liberties. Hence, this fiction work represents an attempt to provide creative, historical, yet entertaining perspectives on widespread surveillance and encroachment on civil liberties.

Set against the backdrops of political and economic relations between Europe and the United States, particularly from the 1990s through the Great Recession that swept across the West until around 2013, Surreptitious Eyes in the Skies recounts the unfolding story of Keefe Malloy, an ordinary American citizen whose father was an Admiral in the U. S.

Navy and a true American patriot. As a military kid, Keefe lived in Japan, Germany, and Spain, and he visited several hotspots around the world where his father had been stationed.

But he finally settled in the United States where he led a quiet and normal life, until his accidental entourage drew the attention of the FBI. Hence, he became wrongly branded a person of national security interest.

Suddenly, Keefe’s life became entangled in a precarious web of betrayal, counterintelligence, espionage, heartbreak, murder, romance, and surveillance. Yet, diving into the complexities of national security, it successfully engages civil liberty concerns, such as privacy rights and manages to evoke basic human needs for belonging, survival, security, and connections, including their desire for love and touch.

Don't be fooled by the deep philosophical deliberations on politics, economics, human nature, religions, society, and the Constitution. This bombshell climaxes to a heart-pounding, full-throttle, fast-paced, and action-packed thriller peppered with mystery, action, crimes, deception, betrayal, espionage, survival, counter-intelligence; and sizzled with titillating romance and dalliance 50% grayer and cleaner than 50 shades of gray and 50 shades grayer.

Baudelaire K. Ulysse, a.

k. a Beau, is the bomb.

Pulling from his profound literary and linguistic arsenal, he delivers a sensational page turner. This will surely keep you on the edge of your seat from cover to cover.

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