Search for Sanctuary
Louis Combe
$12.95 paperback, 116 pages
Published: March 2004
ISBN 1880849-85-2

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On September 11, 2001, the world stood still for an instant, shuddered, and was transformed forever. America’s greatest generation won World War II, but three generations later, in the world posited by Louis Combe’s Search for Sanctuary, Americans have lost the global war against terrorism and retreated to the Western Hemisphere. What caused this headlong retreat by the world’s sole remaining Superpower? Has Western civilization reached its endgame?

These questions are answered, at least tentatively, as we follow the erratic career path of corporate culture-change agent André Zain, from his early childhood at the end of World War II to his retirement in our near future. Zain experiences the erosion of the nuclear family, the rise and fall of large corporations, economic warfare between migrant “have-nots” and resident “haves,” and cultural chaos created by religious and political factionalism.

During the course of Zain’s life, Americans metamorphose from a diverse, yet united, collection of optimistic overachievers searching for a pluralistic sanctuary into a hopelessly divided, selfish people who seem unable to unite even to defeat a common outside enemy. But sometimes, salvation can come from the most unlikely source.