![]() ![]() Edward is stuck in a moribund marriage to Meg, an ambitious politician gearing up to run for mayor, and he’s suffering from bouts of insomnia that leave him roaming through town in the middle of the night. Yet the event ends up intensifying the problematic lives of some of the locals. The story, set in a quiet college town in western Massachusetts, begins with a mundane happening: A false alarm goes off at the opulent mountaintop home of a rich man named Doyle Cutler. ![]() It also refers to that most basic human need, a sense of security, which in this novel proves an elusive commodity. ![]() It refers to the company run by a character named Edward Inman, a company called Stoneleigh Sentinel, which installs high-tech alarm systems for wealthy residential clients. “Security,” the title of Stephen Amidon’s sixth novel, means more than one thing. ![]()
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