Panopticon (USA edition)

A man is shot and wounded to death in the city centre. During the last five minutes of his life - the five chapters of the Novel - he will learn what happened to him and all the whos and whys.

It was Jeremy Bentham, a British utilitarian philosopher, who first used in 1791 the term "Panopticon" to name his project for a new model of prison. He imagined a semi-circular building with all prisoners' cells on the inner circle and sentries at centre. Prisoners cannot see each other, but can be observed all the time by guards hidden to their view.

Laying on the ground, soaked in his own blood, astonished and full of questions, the protagonist is like a Panopticon's guard. As he awaits the arrival of an ambulance, he is guarding his own life and observing the people around him who turn into the protagonists of an adrenaline-packed story of conspiracy, love betrayal and international terrorism.
In his delirious last five minutes, all his senses become amplified and time is extended between flashbacks and present. He can hear people's thoughts, and those thoughts take new fantastic forms redirecting him towards the everlasting questions: who and why.

His weaknesses, his fears, his obsessions are all melted with a chilling plot and an impossible love story.
But his Why it's not only the searching for an explanation of a brutal death, of which he isn't able to have a reason, but above all he's life chooses that conduct him to those last instants. Why his run without any break against boredom transformed in an incessant set in motion of his thoughts and ideas and in his lack of courage to realize them.
Once more the Why of a wife he discover to be unknown and of a woman, angel and persecutor, stranger but inexplicably close to him, whom he seems to be in love

At the end of his life finally a clear Panopticon view of his world appears as never before.

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