The Complex Variable

The Complex Variable is a story about a modern-day Templar Knight, who utilizes his keen tactical skill to incite destruction and its resultant persecution, towards the end-goal of a higher good that can rise out of struggle. This riveting thriller infuses the struggle between the high-tech dehumanized digital life, the revered lessons of ancient history, and a modern-day code inspired by the code of the historic Templar Knights. Bryan Lawrence is The Complex Variable, an enigmatic, current day Templar Knight on a mission to restore our humanity in one fell swoop by strategically taking down the electric power grid in a major California metropolitan area. The level of action intensifies within the chaos, as forced human interactions between disparate individuals ultimately saves society from imminent destruction. Individual characters are amplified as they overcome the challenges, and evolve to embrace a new sense of hope and joy, as the computerized marketing machine of the powerful elite is displaced. Those powerful elite must move quickly to destroy the anomaly and restore their control. Can one lone Templar Knight, driven by his core beliefs, save humanity from re-entering the digital Dark Ages?The disenfranchised covert field-agent Bryan Lawrence immediately grips the reader as we follow his graphic reconstruction of his own mental destruction, catharsis and redemption. As he implements his planned chaos, he forces us to his self-proclaimed point of the spear, forcing over eight million people into a self-induced experiment in a human cleansing of good and evil. The oscillations are inevitable, as daily rituals are hurtled into forced changes, bringing society, and characters within the book, to fateful challenges and then greater realms of redemption and fulfillment in this master thriller. Counter-weighting Bryan Lawrence's assault on the digital is Edward Goeden, the master curator of the NSA data gathering and analysis complex in Colorado which has been monitoring the incident. Edward struggles between his loyalties to the powerful data gathering machine which he created, and determining the best interests of society as a whole, as he watches his data gathering machine become corrupted and used by the powerful elite towards villainous ends. He represents the key infrastructure which can be used to destroy, or to potentially help, Bryan Lawrence. Edward Goeden has the control of the machine that can comprehend what is happening within the chaos, but how will he use it? Neither the machine nor the powerful elite are capable of computing or comprehending the power of the individual to overcome adversity against all odds, and the subsequent rise which unfolds into individual redemption. The Complex Variable embodies the timeless story of heroes reaching for greatness against a backdrop of overwhelming odds and adversity, while being welded to the modern digital dilemma of our loss of soul, our loss of human contact. The Complex Variable is a story that bursts with hardship, hope and redemption, a story with timeless appeal. The name itself sheds light into the main character Bryan Lawrence's torment over this dilemma throughout the core of his soul's journey, and at the edges of his human incarnation.