Today,
I'm proud to introduce my readers to author Scott Wyatt and his new
political thriller, “Dimension
M”.
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REAL-LIFE
HUMANITARIAN INITIATIVE ANIMATES POLITICAL THRILLER
When
I traveled to the former Soviet Union in 1985, I had no idea that my
experiences would inspire the founding of a global initiative. Nor
could I have imagined that the companion flag project—dedicated to
the celebration of all that human beings have in common—would find
its way into my second novel, an international political thriller
that I would pen twenty-eight years later.
Enter Dimension M.
Idealists
Alden Frost and Fatimah Ibrahim break into a school in Uzbekistan
(part of the former Soviet Union) to raise the companion flag, but
this is more than just a school. It’s the secret repository for the
Şahin Diary, an exposé on the Armenian genocide. The diary has been
held under seal since the end of World War I, not to be opened for
200 years. If its contents are publicized, the government of Turkey
could fall, destabilizing the Middle East. After Alden’s and
Fatimah’s arrest, it’s discovered that the diary is missing.
Forces and interests around the world are mobilized to find it,
either to return it to hiding, or to publicize its contents. Alden
and Fatimah find themselves squarely in the crosshairs.
Praise
for Dimension M:
“Readers
are in for some exciting chase scenes, a cast of well-developed and
diverse characters, and a mystery that unfolds at a pleasingly
tantalizing pace. Yet, at the center of all the action stand Alden
and Fatimah and their passion for the concept of the companion flag.”
—Compulsion Reads Book Review
“While there’s
plenty of the action you’d typically find in a political suspense
novel — bombings, abductions, and high-speed motorcycle chases —
the heart of the story is a message of shared experience, empathy,
and the importance of trust in an uncertain world.” —The Literary
Lawyer (NWLawyer magazine)
About
the Author:
Scott
Wyatt, a native of Sandpoint, Idaho, earned degrees at Stanford and
the University of Washington before entering the practice of law in
1976. He founded the companion flag project in 1999 “to elevate and
sustain public awareness of all that human beings have in common,
without speaking to, or diminishing the importance of, our
differences and diversity.”
Wyatt has traveled throughout the world
on behalf of the initiative, and the companion flag has been adopted
at schools and universities in over fifteen countries. In 2012, Wyatt
released his first novel, Beyond
the Sand Creek Bridge, which
follows the experiences of Chinese immigrants building the Northern
Pacific railroad through the Idaho Territory in 1882. Read more at
www.scottwyattauthor.com,
and follow the author at www.facebook.com/scottwyattauthor.
What
motivates you to write?
My
interest in creative writing predates the start of my first novel,
Beyond the Sand Creek Bridge (2012), which was thirty years in
the making. At present, I’m pleased to be riding a robust wave of
creative energy. It has been a long time coming, but it’s here now,
and I feel blessed to have the time and capacity to make the most of
it.
As
passionate as I am about writing, I’m even more passionate about an
idea that came to me out of the blue in 1985, following a trip to the
former Soviet Union. This is the notion that the moral dimension in
human interactions and behaviors—how we treat one another—is
shaped as much by the content of our awareness of other as by those
rules, mores, symbolical thoughts, religious tenets, and
prescriptions that we call our own, or that we embrace throughout our
lives. Yes, I know that’s a mouthful! At its core, though, is this
idea: that human beings—all of us—are both different and the same
(in materialistic terms, we are made up of both human differences and
human “samenesses”); that, when we encounter one another, we are
drawn to and mesmerized by the human differences we see in “other”;
and that, for a whole host of reasons, we formulate our moral
commitments to other based exclusively on difference awareness: my
family/your family, my tribe/your tribe, my ethnic group/your ethnic
group, my nation/your nation. The content of our awareness of other,
in other words, which gives rise to the moral impulse, is difference
awareness alone, not a combination of difference awareness and
sameness awareness. The compassionate impulse, which is the fruit of
sameness awareness, is lost.
This
is more than can be conveyed adequately in a paragraph. You’ll find
this theme developed in attorney Jason McQuade’s closing argument
in Beyond the Sand Creek Bridge, and again in “The Sanori
Flag Debate,” the appendix to my just-released Dimension M
(2013).
And what about you?
I have four children and five grandchildren. My wife, Rochelle Wyatt, is a talented Seattle-area actress. Since 2009, we have lived in a beautiful cabin-like home overlooking Lake Sammamish, fifteen miles east of Seattle in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains.
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