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Eyes Everywhere
I See You …
They follow him home from work. They monitor his e-mails. They may even be reading his mind.
I Spy …
Charlie Fields, a young father in a dead-end secretarial job in Washington, DC, has uncovered a conspiracy of historic proportions. A family friend, Philip Duke, heads a secret organization bent on controlling the world—or so it seems. Is Charlie crazy, as his wife claims? Or is Duke’s “Gestapo” now stalking them?
Do You See What I See? …
The neighbors beat on his walls at night, chanting his name. Spy cameras watch his every move. And now he’s experiencing strange memory gaps.
Time runs out as Charlie learns the Gestapo is experimenting on his small children. Worse, his wife is helping them.
They’re everywhere, watching him…studying him. It’s time to take action—and if he has to abduct his own kids to save them, then so be it.
They follow him home from work. They monitor his e-mails. They may even be reading his mind.
I Spy …
Charlie Fields, a young father in a dead-end secretarial job in Washington, DC, has uncovered a conspiracy of historic proportions. A family friend, Philip Duke, heads a secret organization bent on controlling the world—or so it seems. Is Charlie crazy, as his wife claims? Or is Duke’s “Gestapo” now stalking them?
Do You See What I See? …
The neighbors beat on his walls at night, chanting his name. Spy cameras watch his every move. And now he’s experiencing strange memory gaps.
Time runs out as Charlie learns the Gestapo is experimenting on his small children. Worse, his wife is helping them.
They’re everywhere, watching him…studying him. It’s time to take action—and if he has to abduct his own kids to save them, then so be it.
- GenresHorror
232 pages, Hardcover
First published August 1, 2006
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About the author
Matthew Warner
64 books32 followersWhen critic Feo Amante gave Matthew Warner’s first novel, The Organ Donor (2003), a five-star review and labeled it a “straight-on modern classic of horror,” the praise went straight to Warner’s head. He wrote several more things, such as the novel Eyes Everywhere (2006), which Publishers Weekly described as “disturbing … compelling and insightful,” and a radio play and stage play premiered by theaters in central Virginia.
His opinion column, “Author’s Notes,” ran for five years on the Horror World website and consisted of a blend of commentary, autobiography, and tutorials about the writing craft. Guide Dog Books collected a portion of those columns into its debut non-fiction title, Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word: Essays on Writing & Appreciating the Genre (2008).
Blood Born (2011), is an apocalyptic monster novel set in the Washington, DC, area where he grew up. His first urban fantasy novel, The Seventh Equinox (2013), is set in a fictitious city inspired by his current home of Staunton, Virginia. Dominoes in Time (2015) collects sixteen years of horror and science fiction stories.
Other works include screenplays for Darkstone Entertainment and the novelization of their film Plan 9 (2016). His most recent novel, Empire of the Goddess (2018), depicts a nightmare version of modern America. Yes, one even worse than the actual America.
Warner lives with his wife, the artist Deena Warner, and sons, Owen and Thomas. In 2007, they opened a print and website design business, Deena Warner Design, serving the publishing industry. He’s a member of the Horror Writers Association and an enthusiastic practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
“One of the bright stars of today’s constellation of speculative dreamers.” — Keith Minnion
His opinion column, “Author’s Notes,” ran for five years on the Horror World website and consisted of a blend of commentary, autobiography, and tutorials about the writing craft. Guide Dog Books collected a portion of those columns into its debut non-fiction title, Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word: Essays on Writing & Appreciating the Genre (2008).
Blood Born (2011), is an apocalyptic monster novel set in the Washington, DC, area where he grew up. His first urban fantasy novel, The Seventh Equinox (2013), is set in a fictitious city inspired by his current home of Staunton, Virginia. Dominoes in Time (2015) collects sixteen years of horror and science fiction stories.
Other works include screenplays for Darkstone Entertainment and the novelization of their film Plan 9 (2016). His most recent novel, Empire of the Goddess (2018), depicts a nightmare version of modern America. Yes, one even worse than the actual America.
Warner lives with his wife, the artist Deena Warner, and sons, Owen and Thomas. In 2007, they opened a print and website design business, Deena Warner Design, serving the publishing industry. He’s a member of the Horror Writers Association and an enthusiastic practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu.
“One of the bright stars of today’s constellation of speculative dreamers.” — Keith Minnion
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April 29, 2013
Charlie (who, by coincidence, is also my son's name) is a low-key secretary for a high-key law firm in a D.C. building full of endless cubicles and, as far as he's concerned, an indeterminate future. When he goes home it's to the studio apartment he shares with his wife and two children and a future with them determined only by how valiantly they succeed in merely struggling to make ends meet. If they play their cards right, with both their jobs, a five thousand dollar savings, and a little perseverance, they just might be able to get that house they want where Charlie's son could watch Attack of the Clones to his heart's content and he and his wife could make love in their own bedroom without putting up a bedsheet curtain between themselves and the kids at night.
But then something happens to Charlie's state of mind, something far more horrifying than any author can dream up and call it fiction. In Charlie's case, the chaotic downward spiral all begins with innocent suspicion, a little paranoia, but the more he dwells upon his suspicions, his paranoia builds and escalates until it ruins his life and you the reader find yourself as a sideline witness clenching your teeth or biting your nails telling him my GOD, man.....you're digging a devastating hole for yourself! Stop digging!!
But Charlie.....he just doesn't stop.
He starts believing a wealthy family friend is keeping a close eye on him by hiring all sorts of people, particularly ones of Black or Hispanic heritage, to stake him out. Then he believes his wife is in cahoots, he's fired from his job for freaking out at work during what he's convinced was a terrorist attack where he saved thousands of lives (though nothing really happened at all), and a million camera lenses from a thousand angles are fixed upon him everywhere. Taco Bell wrappers are a clear indication a spy from Duke, the wealthy family friend, was close at hand keeping watch. I myself was eating Taco Bell while I read. Fancy that......
Charlie's life spirals downward into a nightmare abyss where he ultimately is convinced his children have been used in top secret medical experiments and his increasingly Orwellian vision of the world around him is like unto, say, a Jew in Nazi Germany where it is Charlie's own personal genocide "Duke" seeks in his bid to rule humanity.
I'm familiar with many of the reviews Matt Warner has received of this book and quite frankly I'm finding it difficult to further compliment him on this extremely learned, believable and expertly-told achievement. In regards to his grasp upon the degenerative phases of paranoid schizophrenia, it's one of the finest contemporary fictitious depictions of the mind-consuming process of this real and serious mental disorder, some aspects I've had the displeasure of knowing through people close to me.
On the level of Matt's ability to entertain and thrill the reader, I can tell you that you may wind up being a bit paranoid yourself when it's all read and done. This is Warner's second novel as of this review, the first of which was The Organ Donor, and I can't wait for his third.......mainly because his book launching parties are so balls-to-the-wall utterly rockin' wonderful.........
But then something happens to Charlie's state of mind, something far more horrifying than any author can dream up and call it fiction. In Charlie's case, the chaotic downward spiral all begins with innocent suspicion, a little paranoia, but the more he dwells upon his suspicions, his paranoia builds and escalates until it ruins his life and you the reader find yourself as a sideline witness clenching your teeth or biting your nails telling him my GOD, man.....you're digging a devastating hole for yourself! Stop digging!!
But Charlie.....he just doesn't stop.
He starts believing a wealthy family friend is keeping a close eye on him by hiring all sorts of people, particularly ones of Black or Hispanic heritage, to stake him out. Then he believes his wife is in cahoots, he's fired from his job for freaking out at work during what he's convinced was a terrorist attack where he saved thousands of lives (though nothing really happened at all), and a million camera lenses from a thousand angles are fixed upon him everywhere. Taco Bell wrappers are a clear indication a spy from Duke, the wealthy family friend, was close at hand keeping watch. I myself was eating Taco Bell while I read. Fancy that......
Charlie's life spirals downward into a nightmare abyss where he ultimately is convinced his children have been used in top secret medical experiments and his increasingly Orwellian vision of the world around him is like unto, say, a Jew in Nazi Germany where it is Charlie's own personal genocide "Duke" seeks in his bid to rule humanity.
I'm familiar with many of the reviews Matt Warner has received of this book and quite frankly I'm finding it difficult to further compliment him on this extremely learned, believable and expertly-told achievement. In regards to his grasp upon the degenerative phases of paranoid schizophrenia, it's one of the finest contemporary fictitious depictions of the mind-consuming process of this real and serious mental disorder, some aspects I've had the displeasure of knowing through people close to me.
On the level of Matt's ability to entertain and thrill the reader, I can tell you that you may wind up being a bit paranoid yourself when it's all read and done. This is Warner's second novel as of this review, the first of which was The Organ Donor, and I can't wait for his third.......mainly because his book launching parties are so balls-to-the-wall utterly rockin' wonderful.........
October 1, 2008
We all remember where we were on September 11th. Since then, we’ve watched the movies and read the newspaper clips. Each one of us felt that day, but keep the consequences of another’s actions buried and go on about our lives. What we don’t take into account, what’s become a sort of white noise in our every day norm is the after effects. What little we do notice has become jokes to be played out on late night talk shows and cartoon illustrations or has been altered and re-told in order to fit the storytellers agenda.
Warner’s latest novel draws a hefty amount from the fallout of 9/11. What he doesn’t take into account is that in order to manipulate a good storyline around such an event requires delicate finesse and patience. And I’m sorry to say, but neither was present. In what can only be called a convoluted mess, Warner’s carefully constructed ideas fall short of anything resembling a storyline. Relying entirely too much on the reader’s reaction about our “new world order”, rather than building up and fleshing out his protagonist’s world, you are thrown into his meltdown at it’s height. Bad move.
Right from the start, you are thrust into Charlie’s life, and man is it a mess. But, well, you can’t really feel bad for him. He seems like a kook the minute you’re introduced and only cements this opinion throughout the novel. As for the rest of the cast, they’re a group of one-dimensional, stereotypical, cardboard cutouts. Half of them over-react and the other under-react; there is absolutely no balance or realism maintained here.
What does manage to stay true is the atmosphere. Conveyed honestly, the atmosphere is chaotic, the mood constantly changing and shifting, but always digging further and further from what safety you hold close to you. But that rainbow, yeah that only lasted so long.
The big disappointment, the one that really shocked me, was Warner’s style. This wasn’t anywhere close to being his natural voice. No, this was forced. The one thing I enjoy about Warner’s books, even if I’m not thrilled with the story, is his ability to make me feel at home. No formalities, no presumptions, and no pretension, just good old-fashioned storytelling. I have no idea what the hell happened, but this was most certainly not the author I’ve come to know and appreciate.
So, as much as it kills me to have to do it, Eyes Everywhere gets a 2. Unless they’re giving it away with a free phone, dismiss this book like a petulant child at Wal-Mart. My suggestion, hold out for his next release.
-As posted on Horror-Web.com
Warner’s latest novel draws a hefty amount from the fallout of 9/11. What he doesn’t take into account is that in order to manipulate a good storyline around such an event requires delicate finesse and patience. And I’m sorry to say, but neither was present. In what can only be called a convoluted mess, Warner’s carefully constructed ideas fall short of anything resembling a storyline. Relying entirely too much on the reader’s reaction about our “new world order”, rather than building up and fleshing out his protagonist’s world, you are thrown into his meltdown at it’s height. Bad move.
Right from the start, you are thrust into Charlie’s life, and man is it a mess. But, well, you can’t really feel bad for him. He seems like a kook the minute you’re introduced and only cements this opinion throughout the novel. As for the rest of the cast, they’re a group of one-dimensional, stereotypical, cardboard cutouts. Half of them over-react and the other under-react; there is absolutely no balance or realism maintained here.
What does manage to stay true is the atmosphere. Conveyed honestly, the atmosphere is chaotic, the mood constantly changing and shifting, but always digging further and further from what safety you hold close to you. But that rainbow, yeah that only lasted so long.
The big disappointment, the one that really shocked me, was Warner’s style. This wasn’t anywhere close to being his natural voice. No, this was forced. The one thing I enjoy about Warner’s books, even if I’m not thrilled with the story, is his ability to make me feel at home. No formalities, no presumptions, and no pretension, just good old-fashioned storytelling. I have no idea what the hell happened, but this was most certainly not the author I’ve come to know and appreciate.
So, as much as it kills me to have to do it, Eyes Everywhere gets a 2. Unless they’re giving it away with a free phone, dismiss this book like a petulant child at Wal-Mart. My suggestion, hold out for his next release.
-As posted on Horror-Web.com
August 3, 2016
Warner tells a compelling and compassionate story of mental illness while maintaining suspense and even adding some humorous moments. An entertaining read that also challenges some of the stereotypes of mental illness.
Note: I edited this book.
Note: I edited this book.
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