The first half of the novel introduces us to a cast of characters whose lives are intricately intertwined. Nothing much ever happens in Stoneleigh though, which gives him ample time to reflect on life’s disappointments and his unsatisfactory marriage to Meg, a steely local politician with mayoral ambitions. Keeping their properties safe with CCTV coverage and sensor monitors provides the novel’s protagonist, troubled middle-aged insomniac Ed Inman, the owner of Stoneleigh Sentinel Security, with a very good living. But obviously the residents of the wealthy area on the outskirts of town don’t think so, as their luxurious homes are equipped with state-of-the-art security devices. It is set in Stoneleigh, a sleepy college town in New England that has ‘a crime rate equal to a sedate Swiss canton’ and which, we imagine, is peopled by God-fearing, law-abiding model citizens. Security, Stephen Amidon’s latest work, is a tightly plotted, utterly gripping novel.
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