Middle of Nothing — Scott Reed

He had everything most people would consider worthwhile yet there was a gnawing feeling of nothingness inside the mind and soul of Brian Jefferson. A dark tale of one man's philosophical journey, Middle of Nothing begins with Brian Jefferson on a brief excursion of rediscovery. Unfortunately, he discovers a darker side of his personality and devolves into levels of sexual depravity that disturb his core self. Told without the necessity for excessive graphic detail, his adventures create a deepening moral divide within his mind. As he continues to strive for a better understanding of his own history and how to escape that which he has become, he learns disturbing things about nearly everyone he comes in contact with as well as dark family secrets that threaten to destroy him. Through the morass of darkness that envelops his mind, he senses a light and continues to strive forward. A philosophical journey that tells a tale of a modern American man obsessed with those things he believes are normal -- money, power and sex -- along the path he learns more about himself than he could have hoped. He travels the world in search of his soul and finds it in the most remarkably unremarkable place. There are people who guide his journey at times, but it is the uniqueness of one family that creates a new path. The story, told in a sweeping sense over the course of many years uses great detail interspersed with logic, conversation and intense interludes of his own depravity all weaved together to create a new person at the end of the journey. Much of this journey challenges the closely held beliefs of many men about everything from sex, love, money, career and society in general.