Michael E. Ross

Flagpole Days Michael E. Ross

It's a decade into the 21st century. Warren Graham seeks informal asylum from America ("the untied states"). Caught up in a singular event that transforms the country, he exits a nation in chaos, a free-fire zone on the verge of ethnic war. In his travels from London to Amsterdam to north Africa, the young photographer discovers worlds and truths outside his own. Warren wanders "duty free, pleasantly adrift, taking photos of the rich and famous for the major coffeetable magazines. He's not ready for a chance meeting with Jolie Cooper, the woman he left behind, the woman whose love he destroyed. And he can't be ready for a tableau of violence and murder that sweeps him into circumstances he can neither predict nor prevent. Suddenly he is forced to make choices of love, allegiance and responsibility. In the polyglot of Tangier, he must fight for a future he'd taken for granted.