DISTURBANCE

On a plane bucking through the dark, Matt learns that "disturbance" isn't just in the air - it's the state of our age. Marked by a childhood under the shadow of 9/11 and a near miss on the Promenade des Anglais, he carries a private weather system of dread that curdles into suspicion and shame. As work sends him ricocheting across Europe, anxiety frays his love life and poisons an old friendship with Hakim, the son of Ahmed, whose incense-hazed bazaar once felt like home. From a debt-strapped Italian city to sun-stunned Seville in Holy Week, Matt hunts for a way back to trust - through desire, guilt, and the stories we tell ourselves to feel safe. When a single panicked sentence sparks chaos in a crowd, he must face the hardest question of all: What if fear is the most dangerous device we carry? Taut, propulsive, and deeply humane, DISTURBANCE is a literary thriller about paranoia and belonging, masculinity and mercy, and the fragile line between vigilance and prejudice. It's the portrait of a man - and a century - stalled in mid-air, learning to land.