Veracity was my debut novel, and was published in 2007 by a fledgling literary press (Rain Publishing), which eventually died and reverted all rights back to its authors. The novel was written in the early 2000s, when the fear of extremists, fanatics, and radicals had reached a point of hysteria, and the idea of digging deeper to understand these individuals was seen as a kind of crime in itself. At the same time, I was personally trying to come to grips with how contradictory we are as human beings. I had big questions and few answers (and still don’t). But the important part, I believe, is in the asking. Which is what the novel’s about, engaging and asking you, the reader, what you think, and what you would do put in the same situation, the same isolated environment, as it becomes increasingly radical – though in eerily reasonable increments. What would you do when the line that we like to draw between black and white begins to grey, then blur, then disappear?