An American Man

In Times Square, amid the chaos of a violent protest, a nameless man walks calmly into the fire. He saves a little girl no one else saw. Then he vanishes. A cynical journalist becomes obsessed with finding him. What begins as a simple assignment becomes a forty-year investigation across America. From a dusty bookstore in Greenwich Village to a blind watchmaker in Pittsburgh. From a woman living under a bridge in St. Louis to an isolated observatory in the New Mexico desert. Each person Mac discovers has been touched by the same man—a silent, invisible force moving through the margins of American life. But the deeper Mac searches, the more complicated the story becomes. The man he's looking for is not simply a hero. He is a poet who once destroyed a brilliant musician with his idealism. He is a man who spent decades in penance, teaching others to transform their pain into purpose. He is both saint and demon, both redeemer and penitent. An American Man is a novel about honor—not as a state of purity, but as a lifelong debt. It is a meditation on visibility and invisibility, on the lives we choose to lead, and on what it means to be truly seen. It is the story of a man who owned nothing and left behind everything. Perfect for readers who loved *The Name of the Rose*, *True Detective*, and *Into the Wild*. A novel that will change how you see the invisible people around you.